Saved by the Miraculous.Icon with handmade coinage

Saved on a cloth or Vernicle is the first abrazada writing on the icons .To the icons of Jesus Christ is not yet written.There is a legend about the patient from the city of Ephesus who himself could not come to Christ for healing and sent his artist to paint his portrait and believed to be healed from it.But they sent the artist failed to portray Christ: Christ washed his face, wiped it with a cloth (ubrus), which left a print, and handed it to the artist.Since then, boards (cloth) became the first icon, and from him we have received the image of Christ which has been written and written icons.The image of the Lord in any of the main iconostasis ,Church and home.Therefore, it is without doubt to give anyone spiritually close person.
The icon is painted on a lime board in tempera made by hand from natural minerals on an egg yolk.
The margins of the icon are gilded with 23-karat gold and polished to a glossy sheen .Then the gold is manually minted