• Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
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Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor

Saint John The Russian icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor

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This wonderful icon has been created with the technique of lithography and has a double varnish to ensure waterproof and duration in time. The creator of this icon has learned the canonization of iconography in workshops of the Monasteries of Mount Athos, where he was taught both the technique of lithography and the process of handmade artificial ageing.


The blessed John the Russian (1690-1730) was enslaved by the Turks, but lived his life in holy humility and miracles. His feast day is commemorated by the Church on May 27.


Life

St John was born around 1690 in the south of Russia to pious Orthodox parents. Upon reaching maturity he was called to service in the army of Peter I, to serve as a simple soldier. During the Prutsk campaign of the Russo-Turkish war he was taken prisoner. As the case then, he ended up as a slave of the Turkish cavalry commander who took John to his home in the village of Prokopion, near Caesarea in Asia Minor.


Like all captured Christian soldiers, John was threatened, tortured, subjected to all means to convert him to the Moslem faith. John was resolute in his resistance to this inhumane treatment, bravely enduring humiliations and beatings. Noting John’s firm faith, his master’s heart softened and John was assigned to take care of his master’s stable, which also became his living quarters. Recalling the cave and manger where his Savior came into the world, John rejoiced in his small dark corner of the stable as a little paradise where he could freely pray and offer praises to the true God. Occasionally, John would leave his bed to keep vigil at the nearby Church of the Great Martyr George, and on Saturdays and Feast days receive Holy Communion.


As the cavalry commander prospered, he understood his blessings and prosperity came through his servant John, and noted this to his fellow citizens.


Foreseeing his end, John called for a priest from the church he had attend

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