Monk Zosima and Monk Savvaty | Lithography, pressed wood, gold-imprinting | Size: 2,5 x 3,5"

A fabulous, traditional Russian-Orthodox Byzantine icon in canonical iconographic style. Lithography, pressed wood, gold-imprinting.

Often the Monk Zosima appeared together with the Monk Savvaty. So one day monk Joseph, while on the island of Kuzov, ascended a mountain at night to pray and, looking at the Solovetsky Islands, saw in the middle of the monastery two pillars of fire rising from earth to heaven. When he told about what he saw to other monks, they told him: “These are the founders and heads of the Solovetsky monastery, the Monks Zosima and Savvaty shine from their graves, for they are spiritual pillars, enlightened by Divine grace.”