Agios Porphyrios the Kausokalyvite – Sandblasted Gold Printing – Mount Athos

Description

Sandblasted gilding with Saint Porphyrios the Causokalyvite.

An amazing gilding with Saint Porphyrios of Kausokalyvitis.

An amazing image in the form of Saint Porphyrios of Kausokalyvitis, who was ranked among the Saints of the Orthodox Church in 2013. The elder Porphyrios was born in 1906 in Evia and at the age of 12 he secretly left for Mount Athos. He became a monk at the age of 14 and took the name Nikitas, but after a few years he became seriously ill, which forced him to leave Mount Athos.

He returned to Evia, where he retired to the Monastery of Agios Charalambous Lefko and in 1926 he was ordained a priest by Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Sinai, who gave him the name Porphyrios. At the age of 22, he became a spiritual confessor and a little later an archimandrite. In 1940, on the eve of the Second World War, he took on the duties of vicar and cleric at the Athens Polyclinic, where he remained for many years. In June 1991, sensing his end, he left for the hut of Agios Georgios in Kavsokalyvia of Mount Athos, where he gave up his spirit on December 2 of the same year.

Gold Sandblasting: Features

In the icon with the representation of Saint John the Russian, the iconographic monk used the technique of gold printing creating a work of unique beauty. Gold printing is a type of thermotype technique. Thermography is the name of the method by which very thin metallic gold foil is placed on surfaces such as wood, leather, cardboard, plastic by pressing a heated embossed plate (cliché) onto our surface. Around the image you also use the sandblasting technique, it is the technical processing by which the corrosion of a part or the whole of a surface is achieved by throwing sand under pressure.