Saint John the Russian - Engraved wooden image on canvas with gold background - Mount Athos

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Christianity Art presents Saint John the Russian - Engraved wooden image on canvas with gold background - Mount Athos. Category: Paintings. Materials: Gold, Wood, Canvas. Image crafted on canvas with a gold background on engraved wood. The figure comes with a free stand. Saint John the Russian Born in a village in Little Russia in 1690 AD, of virtuous parents, Saint John enlisted at legal age during the reign of Peter the Great. He took part in the war against the Turks and was captured by Tatars, who sold him to an Ottoman officer in Caesarea, Cappadocia. John did not convert like many of his fellow captives. His faith in God softened the soul of his master, who in time loved him as well as his wife and gave him a residence near the barn. However, John chose to live in the stable, together with the animals, to strain his body with exercise, to pray and counteract the stench of the animals with the spirituality and fragrance that he gave off. When his master left for Mecca, his wife set a table for relatives and friends and wished that her husband was there so that she could eat from the food he had prepared. John with his faith and his prayers "carried" a plate of his master's wife's rice to his master. Event, which he himself witnessed upon his return to his home. The miracle of John made him known throughout the world, while he continued to live ascetically, with fasting and prayer. He died quietly among the straw and the animals of the stable in 1730AD. After his death, his holy relic was transferred, intact and fragrant, to the church of Saint George, later to the temple of Saint Basil and finally to a temple erected in his honor. Many miracles are reported after his death. An attempt to burn the holy relic by Osman Pasha is characteristically mentioned, which not only did not burn despite the fact that they threw it into the fire, but the infidels themselves saw it bullying them and driving them out of the church premises. His holy relic was transferred from 1924 to Evia. His memory is celebrated on May 27.