Icons: Saint John of Kronstadt .Icon with coinage

John of Kronstadt is a well-known Saint, "all-Russian father" as his contemporaries called him.My father was born so weak that his parents immediately baptized him, thinking that he would not survive the night.But after the baptism, the baby began to grow stronger .His parents raised him in faith and love for God.He excellently graduated from the ecclesiastical school and Academy and was sent to St. Petersburg for his excellent studies.The Saint always wanted to be a missionary,but he had a dream in which he saw himself serving in a Cathedral.After training, he married the daughter of the Archpriest of St. Andrew's Cathedral.The marriage was fictitious,in order to be Archpriest, he had to marry.They lived with their wife for God.Kronstadt was a bad place.There were sailors,drunkards,beggars,and women of easy virtue .Among these people and began his pastoral work about. John. He went to them every day, talked with them, comforted them, provided possible help, and more than once returned home without clothes and shoes, which he distributed to the needy. Often he was asked to help people and he did not hesitate to go even to the most infectious patients. For his prayers for healing, the Saint never asked for anything, except that people should not forget the Lord.U o. John discovered the gift of miracle-working and perspicacity, to which there are innumerable evidences .Through the prayers of the Saint, people got rid of the most severe ailments, while healing took place in private, and with a large crowd of people. Many people did not have the opportunity to come to the father in Kronstadt, they wrote letters, and through them they also received healing.
Father John especially helped people who were prone to alcoholism, and many people got rid of this disease thanks to his prayers.The Saint was recognized by all Russia.All 53 years of his Ministry, he lived in one small apartment in Kronstadt, which is now open to every guest.He opened a house of industry in which beggars could work and a shelter.My father kept a spiritual diary, now you can read his works in the book "My life in Christ" during the years of the God-Feud, entries with prophecies about Russia mysteriously disappeared from the diary,and they have not yet been found.In addition to this book, 3 volumes of his sermons were published, and later a large number of separate books were published with the writings of father John.Died FR.John in 1908. At the funeral there were tens of thousands of people and the coffin continued to heal John of Kronstadt was buried in the Church-tomb of the Saint Petersburg monastery built by him.Canonized in 1990.
The icon is painted in tempera colors on egg yolk, in a picturesque style of writing.Matt and glossy gilding on polymer ( clay) is performed.Hand-stamped.(this is not stamping! )
The icon will be a great personal gift, a gift for Epiphany, or for home prayer ,as well as an icon in the temple . Can pick up the icon a decent frame.