Handmade Serbian Orthodox Icon Of St Sava and 50 similar items

Handmade Serbian Orthodox Icon Of St Sava BRAND NEW Description: Saint Sava He was born in 1175 as Rastko Nemanjic, the youngest son of the great prefect Stefan Nemanja and Ana Nemanjic, the daughter of the Constantinople emperor Roman. As a child, he adored and regularly attended church services, and he was especially interested in icons. When he was 17, he met a monk and soon went with him to the monastery of St. Panteleimon on the Holy Mountain, leaving his father's house. He became a monk in that monastery in 1192, when he was named Sava. In 1196, the great prefect Stefan Nemanja left his kingdom - Raska, and joined his son in the Studenica monastery, where he became a monk and was named Simeon. In the same year, Rastko's mother Ana left her previous life and became a monk, becoming Anastasia. Two years later, Sava and Simeon founded the Hilandar monastery on the Holy Mountain. Simeon died in 1199, and only a few months later he was proclaimed a saint. At the beginning of the 13th century, Sava became a deacon and a priest of Hilandar, and then an archimandrite in Thessaloniki. When he returned to Serbia in 1207, he took with him the relics of his father, Saint Simeon, and thus reconciled with the previously quarreled brothers Stefan and Vukan. In the following period, during the first decades of the 13th century, the Serbian state flourished under the rule of Nemanjic. Namely, in 1217, Sava's eldest brother, Stefan, was crowned and thus became Stefan Prvovencani, and in 1219, the Ecumenical Patriarch proclaimed Sava the first Serbian archbishop at the court of the Byzantine Empire in Nicaea. Thanks to Sava, the Serbian Orthodox Church became autocephalous, that is an independent church that does not depend on other churches. In 1220, Sava published the first Serbian Nomokanon, a legal collection that includes church and civil laws related to church-legal issues. A year later, together with Stefan the First-Crowned, he founded a church assembly or council, which represented the beliefs of the Christian Orthodox Church. The fact that in 1228 he miraculously resurrected his late brother Stefan, whose relics are today in the Studenica monastery, also speaks in favor of the power of Archbishop Sava. In the same year, Sava crowned Radoslav, and in 1234 Vladislav - his brother's sons. In the monastery of Zica, which was built by Stefan Prvovencani, Sava handed over his title of archbishop to his student Arsenij in 1234, and thus proclaimed him the second Serbian archbishop. After that, Sava sets off, with the desire to end his life wandering in some unknown land. He traveled to Palestine, Syria, Persia, Babylon, Egypt and Anatolia, and in each of these areas he visited holy places, talked with great hermits and collected the relics of saints. In Trnovo, the capital of the Bulgarian kingdom, he fell ill and died on January 27, 1236. After several unsuccessful attempts, King Vladislav finally succeeded in transferring the relics of Saint Sava to the Mileseva monastery, around 1237. At the end of the 16th century, the Ottoman Turks burned Sava's relics on the Vracar embankment in Belgrade, where one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world, the Temple of Saint Sava, is located today. The legacy of Saint Sava is still present in the tradition of the Orthodox Church of the Slavic peoples. He is the greatest Serbian educator. He is the man who founded the Hilandar monastery and who, with his firm faith in God, also believed in people, connected them and illuminated their life paths. He is also important as the writer of the first Serbian Nomocanon, the Life of Saint Simeon, Studenicki and Hilandarski tipik. Numerous songs and folk tales have been written about him, and the day of his death, January 27, was marked as a holiday of all schools and many Orthodox believers. Item Details: · Dimensions: 10cm x 7cm. · Material: Wood. View images please. PLEASE NOTE: Each order is packaged to prevent damage. It is wrapped in bubble foil and cardboard. You can be sure that your goods will be delivered without any problems. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at any time.