Saint Svetlana - Excavated wooden image on canvas with gold background - Mount Athos

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Discover Saint Svetlana - Excavated wooden image on canvas with gold background - Mount Athos, offered by Christianity Art. Find it in Paintings. Materials: Gold, Wood, Canvas. Image crafted on canvas with a gold background on engraved wood. The figure comes with a free stand. Saint Svetlana The Holy Martyr Fotini Svetlana together with her two sons, Victor (baptized with the Christian name Fotinos) and Joses, Anatolia's siblings, Fota, Fotis, Paraskevi and Kyriaki and the martyr Stefanos, taught the word of Christ and brought a multitude of people into the bosom of the Church, in the era of Nero's empire, the most cruel war of the Christians. Saint Svetlana and her son Joses taught the word of God when Victor was fighting in the Roman army against the barbarians. Although victorious, when he returned to Rome, he did not renounce Christ and together with his brother was martyred on the cross and dismembered. Saint Svetlana suffered horrible tortures and experienced the cruel death of her beloved sons and brothers without departing from her faith. She died thrown into a well by Nero.