Golden Orthodox cross "Lord Almighty. Iveron Icon of the Mother of God and Eight Saints"
Metal: red gold 585"
Average weight: 11.24 g
Height (with eyelet): 3.7 cm
Height (without eyelet): 2.6 cm
Cross width: 2.1 cm
Ear dimensions: 0.5 cm
On the front side, the Lord is depicted surrounded by four evangelists. With His right hand He blesses, in His left He holds the open book of the New Testament - the law of love, which He fulfilled with His life. The apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke and John the Theologian wrote down the teachings of Christ and left His biography.
The cross is a symbol of the four-part world united in Christ. The images of the evangelists depicted on its crossbars show a world enlightened by the Divine Word. In the center is a loving image of Christ, around which is written: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden.” The Lord promises eternal joy to those who keep His commandments, but sinners will not see it. Therefore, believers fear the Last Judgment, hope for God’s mercy and pray to Him for this. This prayer: “God have mercy on me” is placed on the ear of the cross.
On the reverse is an image of one of the most famous Athonite shrines, with which the prophecy of the Day of Judgment is associated. The Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, according to Tradition, miraculously came across the waters to the Iverite (Georgian) monastery in 999 and has been kept there for more than a thousand years in the gate church of the Iveron Monastery. Therefore she is called Portaitissa (Goalkeeper). The Mother of God revealed to the monks that before the end of the world, Her icon would disappear from the gates of the monastery. The Iveron Icon is not only the Goalkeeper, but also the Guide - this is the name of the iconography, where the Mother of God seems to point to the Infant of God, solemnly seated on Her left hand, as the Path of salvation, the living Truth and the source of eternal Life.
Standing on the cross of the Mother of God are saints who have fulfilled the Gospel law in different ways, each in their own way becoming like Christ.
To the right of the Mother of God is the Monk Paisiy Velichkovsky, Elder of Moldova († 1794). The first half of his life was a search for true monasticism, the second was a constant struggle for its approval.
To the left of the Virgin is the Roman saint Blessed Alexius († 411). For his perfect Christian humility, during his lifetime he was called a man of God. The saint left his family, the world, he gave up not only his estate,but even from his own mind, having taken upon himself the feat of foolishness, he dedicated every minute of his life to God.
She spent her life in obscurity, etc. Mary of Egypt († 522), standing on the cross below. Indulging in fornication in her youth, she saw the baseness of her fall and went into the desert, where she repented of her sins for forty years. On the path of repentance, she reached such a height of holiness that her feat became an example for all Orthodox Christians, and her life is read every year in churches during Lent.
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