Saint Helena – Aged Lithograph – Mount Athos

Description

Aged Lithograph of Saint Helena

Saint Helena, along with her son, Saint Constantine, was honored by the Church with the title “Equal to the Apostles.” Saint Helena demonstrated her piety through numerous acts of charity and the construction of new churches in Rome, Constantinople (Church of the Holy Apostles), Bethlehem, and on the Mount of Olives. In 326 AD, she traveled to Jerusalem, where she labored diligently to find the True Cross, as well as the crosses of the two thieves crucified alongside Jesus. Saint Helena passed away peacefully in 327 AD at the age of eighty. Her son later transported her holy relics to Constantinople, where they were interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

Aged Lithograph: Features

This icon was created using the lithography technique, which is taught in the iconography workshops of Mount Athos and widely employed by monks to craft exquisite works of art. In this case, the monk used a lithographed reproduction of Byzantine art to create the piece, following the traditional method of artificial aging. Lithography in iconography is essentially a specialized printing technique.

Origin: Mount Athos