St. John the Evangelist and St. Prokhor on the island of Patmos | Lithography icon print on Wood | Size: 5 1/4" x 4 1/2"

St. John the Evangelist and St. Prokhor on the island of Patmos. Russian Orthodox rare Icon (High Quality, consecrated in the temple. The picture doesn't reflect all of the beauty and gold glimmer. Modern metallography and lithography technologies were used to reproduce the icon, making the details excellent of this particular icon.A rare icon composition goes back to the entrance miniatures of the handwritten Gospels, in which this scene, known since the 10th century, often replaces the traditional image of the seated and writing evangelist John. The literary source of the scene is the early Byzantine apocryphal text of the "Walking" of John the Theologian, ascribed to ap. Prokhor - one of the first seven deacons of the Jerusalem church and a disciple of the apostle John, who accompanied him in his wanderings. According to "Walking", St. John retired to the island of Patmos to write the Gospel. The creation of the sacred text is described on behalf of the present Prokhor as a great miracle and Divine Revelation.