Icon of Saint John the Baptist 26X20cm

Icon of Saint John the Baptist 26X20cm. Church icon Agios Ioannis Prodromos crafted to its standards Byzantine style. The icon is wooden, flat in a classic ecclesiastical design, gilded with a special technique that makes it more brilliant than gold printing. With a traditional red border and made of MDF wood, it makes it durable over time. It is specially processed and varnished to have maximum resistance to time and wear.

His honest head Baptist John while it was hidden for many years, it appeared through the earth and shone like gold.

And while at first it was placed in a special pitcher, it was found in a silver vase and in sacred place.

The search was made following information provided by a priest from Komana, Cappadocia, who saw the exact spot in a holy awakening.

From there the sacred head was transported to Constantinople (in the Monastery of the Studio), where a magnificent reception was made, in the presence of the emperor of the Patriarch and the faithful and flag-bearing people of Vassilevousa.

We also find news about the holy relics of Timios Prodromos in various chronographs.

Zonaras mentions that in 968 AD. Nikiforos Fokas found in Edessa of Mesopotamia βοστρυχον τοῦ Βαπτιστού Ιωάννου αίματι περφυμένον, who moved to Istanbul.

Five years earlier he came to Constantinople from Veria, Syria, around April 963 AD, part of the robe of the Holy Forerunner.

The Gathering of the Finding of the Holy Head of St. John the Baptist took place in his Prophethood, which was located at the site called Forakiou.

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