Saint Ephraim – Sandblasting – Mount Athos

Description

Sandblasting of Saint Ephraim

An amazing sandblasted icon of Saint Ephraim of Nea Makri, one of the “newly-revealed” saints, who was born in 1384 in Trikala.

To escape the child levy, he was sent at the age of just 14 to the Monastery of the Annunciation of the Theotokos on Mount Amomon. He stayed there until he was 18 as a novice monk, then was ordained a monk and, a few years later, a priest. His sacred relic was discovered by the nun Makaria Desypra on January 3, 1950, at the site where the Holy Monastery of Amomon now stands in Nea Makri, Attica.

According to Christian tradition, after Athens fell to the Ottomans in 1416, the Holy Monastery suffered two destructions. During the first, Saint Ephraim happened to be praying in a cave on the mountain while the Ottoman army slaughtered the other fathers and monks, whom Saint Ephraim buried upon his return. In 1425, the Turks found him and tortured him with extreme brutality for 8.5 months. He was martyred on May 5, 1426, and the tree on which he was nailed and breathed his last still exists today.

Gold Printing with Sandblasting: Features

Dimensions: 14.5 x 19 x 2 cm
Origin: Mount Athos