Saints Constantine and Helen | Lithography, pressed wood, gold-imprinting | Size: 2,5 x 3,5"
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A fabulous, traditional Russian-Orthodox Byzantine icon in canonical iconographic style. Lithography, pressed wood, gold-imprinting.
Saints Constantine and Helen | Lithography icon print on Wood.
The Church calls St Constantine (306-337) the Equal of the Apostles,u and historians call him the Great.He was the son o the Caesar Constantius Chlorus (305-306), who governed the lands of Gaul and Britain. His mother was St Helen, a Christian of humble birth. At this time the immense Roman Empire was divided into Western and Eastern halves, governed by two independent emperors and their called Caesars. Constantius Chlorus was Caesar in the Western Roman Empire.