St George Slaying the Dragon | Large XLG Silver foiled icon on wood | Orthodox - Catholic icon | Size: 15 7/8" x 13"

A fabulous, traditional Russian-Orthodox Byzantine icon in canonical iconographic style. Image of the icon is made in high-quality polygraphic with double layers of metallographic printing. It is pasted to the wood or plywood plate basis.

This icon depicts The Great Martyr St. George and the Dragon (also known as the Trophy Bearer or Victory Bearer). He was a Christian Roman soldier, born in the late 3rd century in Cappadocia to a Palestinian mother. St. George is often depicted riding a white horse while slaying a dragon, a familiar symbol of Satan. A blessing hand of Jesus Christ emerges from a segment of a circle at the top right-hand corner of the icon. St. George is a symbol of the earthly manifestation of Archangel Saint Michael, with whom he has much in common. St. George is the patron saint of Moscow, England, farmers, soldiers, prisoners and the poor, and scoutin

The icon was consecrated by the provost of the Russian Orthodox church in Moscow.
This is a religious object, please, treat it carefully and in a worthy manner