Agios Nikitas – Sandblasting – Mount Athos

Description

A special handiwork of an Agiorite monk. The image of the Saint with golden painted sand from the shores of the Athonian State.

Saint Nikitas (September 15), came from the nation of the Goths. As a child, Nikitas was taught the holy faith by the Gothic bishop Theophilos.

When the ruler Athanaricus arrested Nikitas and threatened him to deny Christ, he remained unmoved by what he learned as a child. He boldly confessed Christ before the ruler, who on hearing him was so enraged that he immediately ordered his bones to be broken in the most horrible manner. But the hatred of the Barbarians was so great that they threw him into the fire, where he died. The fire, however, by divine will, respected his relic until a devout Christian took it and kept it in a case.

As the picture is handmade and the wood is processed by hand, there may be slight variations in the wood.

Image is available upon request.

Origin: Mount Athos

Dimensions:13Χ14,5