Golden Orthodox cross “Lord Almighty. Great Martyr Panteleimon the Healer"
Metal: red gold 585"
Average weight: 7.12 g
Height (with eyelet): 3.6 cm
Height (without eyelet): 2.7cm
Cross width: 2.1 cm
Ear dimensions: 0.6 x 0.4 cm
The pectoral cross with the images of the Lord Pantocrator on the front side and the Great Martyr Panteleimon the Healer on the back is traditional in iconography and its artistic design. The image of the Lord with a book in his hand and a blessing right hand is one of the most ancient. In this icon, Jesus Christ appears as the arbiter of human destinies, the ruler and judge of the entire universe. The book in His hand symbolizes the Book of Genesis. It records all human deeds and the names of those whom the Lord chose for eternal life. Not everyone will enter the Kingdom of Heaven with the righteous. “Do not be deceived,” says the Apostle Paul, “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wicked people, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” < ;br>
But the Merciful Lord, Who “does not want the eternal death of the sinner, but that the wicked should turn from his way, and live to be him,” sends trials and illnesses to people in order to make them come to their senses or even prevent a possible terrible sin. Illness is a test by which the Lord leads a person to salvation for eternal life.
The fact that all illnesses, including physical ones, are in direct connection with the illness of the soul and depend on it is said more than once in the Gospel. When healing a sick person, Jesus Christ always first forgives his sin. First, He heals the soul from sins, and then the body from illness.
Without Saint Panteleimon it is impossible to imagine the spiritual image of Russia, the history of the Orthodox Church. But his name is known not only to the Orthodox. In ancient Nicomedia (now the Turkish city of Izmit), where he suffered, on his memorial day, August 9, annual celebrations are held, at which thousands of Armenians, Catholics, and Mohammedans pray to the saint together with the Orthodox, and the book “Kondak” is kept in the Orthodox church, in which people of different faiths and nationalities write down in their own hands stories of healing from illnesses after a repentant prayer to the holy doctor. And being healed, many people are born again to life with God.
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