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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Archangel Michael is considered the patron saint of warriors. He is the protector of all Orthodox Christians from visible and invisible enemies and evil spirits. The faith of Orthodox Christians in his help in all troubles, sorrows, needs is strong. They turn to him with prayers for healing (this is due to the veneration of him as the conqueror of evil spirits, which in Christianity were considered a source of disease), they also pray to him when entering a new house and at the consecration of the house, asking salvation from thieves and natural disasters. In Orthodoxy, he is also revered as the patron saint of construction and builders. Handwritten icon on chalkboard,
salary with metal and gilding, all original with frame.
Icon measures height x 22.5 width x 2.5 length x 17.5. 67517169
