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Saint Aurelia icon, Handmade Greek Catholic icon of St Aurelia Strasbourg, Catholic art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor
Saint Aurelia icon, Handmade Greek Catholic icon of St Aurelia Strasbourg, Catholic art wall hanging wood plaque, religious decor
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Bring the spiritual elegance of Byzantine art into your home with this exquisite, handmade Greek Orthodox icon of Saint Aurelia. Crafted with reverence, this piece makes a profound addition to any prayer corner or a deeply meaningful religious gift.
Product Specifications
- Craftsmanship: In this handmade museum quality lithography with double varnish to ensure waterproof properties and long lasting in time, we have the representation of Saint Aurelia of Strasbourg.
- Display: Can be hung on a wall or placed on a flat surface.
- Display: The item is sold without the stand depicted.
The Significance of Saint Aurelia
She was a 4th-century saint, whose tomb in Strasbourg became the centre of a popular cult in the Middle Ages.
According to the legend, Aurelia accompanied Saint Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins from Roman Britain to Cologne, where they were favourably received by Aquilin, bishop of the place. From Cologne they traveled to Basel. From Basel the travelers descended the Rhine to Strasbourg where St Aurelia succumbed to a violent fever, dying after a few days. Three virgins were left to care for her. She was particularly invoked against fevers in the church that bears her name. [1] Her three companions lived many years in the same place and were buried there. Some centuries later their tomb was opened and their bodies were found completely intact, marked with titles bearing their names. This legend is reproduced in the current breviary of the Diocese of Strasbourg.
Grandidier, who questions the authenticity of the legend, observed that the cult of Saint Aurelia was already very popular in Strasbourg by the 9th century. [2]
The church of Sainte Aurélie in Strasbourg is supposed to have been built over the crypt in which the tomb of Saint Aurelia was situated. [3]
In 1524, Martin Bucer (a Protestant), soon after his appointment as pastor of the church, instigated members of the gardeners' guild to open the tomb and remove the bones, justifying this on the grounds that the tomb had become an object of idolatry. [4] [5]
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Handmade in Greece since 1978.
Every piece leaves our workshop finished by hand — the wood prepared, the image laid, the surface aged and varnished. One at a time, the way Greek icon workshops have worked for generations.
We make them to be lived with: held in prayer, hung in a quiet corner, passed on.
"Come close to God, and God will come close to you." — James 4:8
