Jesus Christ "Blessing" icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

Jesus Christ "Blessing" icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Orthodox Icon of Christ "Blessing"(2). In this icon our Jesus Christ is giving benediction and holding a Gospel book is one of the oldest iconographic types of Orthodox Icons of Christ. The dark red gown with a golden band around the shoulder indicates Christ's divine royalty. His human nature is symbolized by the dark blue color of the outergarment whose folds shine with gleams of light.

appearing to his flock as an image of gentleness

On the day following

truthful confession and the life in Christ

Now they are in Athens

Monastery of Saint Catherine

his brothers and sisters

He was handsome

and he began to cry out to the Mother of God

On the final night the holy martyr prayed fervently

Orthodox icon of Prophet David (1)

In 1807 the abbot

who showed himself only to the most worthy pilgrims