Table Orthodox Christian icon. The image is executed on special technology of drawing the color image on a enamel basis. It is covered with the special structure protecting it from mechanical damages and influence of light. The image is inserted into the openwork brass frame covered with the galvanic 24K silver-gilding and accented by blackening. The icon is fixed in a wooden icon case, the covered quality varnish, from a reverse side there is a steady openwork brass leg. This icon is supplied in a presentable man-made natural leather LUX BOX packing. Weight: 1.8 oz. (50.57 g).
Saint Basil of Ostrog is the most revered saint in Montenegro and Serbia. This modern icon was brought in 2010 from the Ostrog Monastery (Montenegro), where the incorruptible rest the relics of the saint. The icon is blessed on his relics. Completely picturesque, handmade in enamel, decorated with rhinestones and brass. Cames with LUX gift box.
SHORT LIFE OF SAINT BASIL OF OSTROG
From the Prologue of Ochrid
Saint Basil was born in Popovo Polje, a village in Hercegovina, of simple and God-fearing parents. From his youth he was filled with love for the Church of God and when he reached maturity he entered the monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in Trebinje and there received the monastic tonsure. As a monk he quickly became renowned because of his genuine and infrequently-found ascetic life. Saint Basil took upon himself mortification upon mortification, each one heavier and more difficult than the last. Later, against his will he was elected and consecrated as bishop of Zahumlje and Skenderija. As a hierarch he first lived in the monastery of Tvrdosh and from there, as a good shepherd, he strengthened his flock in the Orthodox Faith, protecting them from the cruelty of the Turks and the cunning ways of Latins. When Basil was exceedingly pressed by his enemies and Tvrdosh destroyed by the Turks*, he moved to Ostrog, where he lived an austere ascetic life, protecting his flock by his ceaseless and fervent prayer. He fell asleep peacefully in Lord in the sixteenth century, leaving behind his incorrupt Relics, incorrupt and miracle-working to the present day. The miracles at the grave of Saint Basil are without number. Christians and Muslims alike come before his Relics and find healing for their gravest illnesses and afflictions. A great people’s assembly (sabor) occurs there annually on the Feast of Pentecost.
-St. Nicolai of Zicha
