Saint Vasilios - Silver image in wood, locally gold plated - Mount Athos

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A closer look at Saint Vasilios - Silver image in wood, locally gold plated - Mount Athos from Christianity Art. Listed in Wall reliefs. Materials: Silver, Gold, Wood. Image painted on canvas on wood, with silver coating and local gold plated. The image is accompanied by a free support base. Saint Basil Protector of the poor and the weak, St. Basil, father and teacher of the Orthodox Church grew up in Caesarea, Cappadocia, from noble and rich parents, with Christian thinking. He studied philosophy, rhetoric, grammar, astronomy and medicine and taught rhetorical art. A solitary life followed as an ascetic in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia. He retired to the Monastery of Pontus as a monk, was ordained a minister and elder and succeeded by Eusebius reached the throne of high priesthood in the diocese of Caesarea. He struggled against moral rot and brought reforms to monasticism, while building the famous "Royaliad", a complex with good institutions, such as a poor home, an orphanage, a nursing home, offering food and care to thousands of sufferers of every age, gender and race. He dies in his 50 years on January 1, 378 AD, leaving his spiritual work in store.