Saint Christina icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon of St Christina of Tyre, Byzantine art wall hanging icon on wood plaque, religious gift

A beautiful lithography with double varnish to ensure long lasting in time and water proof properties with the representation of Saint Christina. An artwork following the Athonian techniques to the letter created with love and patience. The creator applied the process of artificial ageing and added a handmade metal finish to give this icon unique aesthetic value.

Saint Christina lived during the third century. She was born into a wealthy family. Her father was a general named Urban. Christina was graced with great beauty and many men asked her father for her hand in marriage. He refused their offers because he wished for her to become a pagan priestess and so he locked her in a tower where he had set up idols and ordered her to offer incense to them.

In her solitude, Christina meditated on the beauty of creation and the therefore infinite beauty of its Creator. From her tower, she was delighted by the stars of the heavens, and was convinced that the voiceless and inanimate idols in her room could not create anything, being themselves created by human hands. She began to pray to the One God with tears, entreating Him to reveal Himself. Her soul blazed with love for the Unknown God, and she intensified her prayer all the more, combining it with fasting.

God revealed Himself to Christina through an angel, who instructed her in the true faith in Christ. The angel, called her a bride of Christ and told her that she would suffer for her faith. Christina smashed all the idols in her room and threw them out the window. Shortly thereafter, Christina’s father visited her and questioned her about the whereabouts of the idols. She remained silent. Her father then learnt that Christina had destroyed the idols from her servants.

Can be hung on a wall or placed on a flat surface.