Alexander Svirsky amber carving Pd-121

Materials pressed amber, frame-natural Baltic amber, carving. weight 53 grams, diameter 7,5 cm

The Monk Alexander Svirsky has a special place in the host of Russian saints. He lived in the dense forests on the Svir River, now the Lodeynopolsky district of the Leningrad Region. They knew him as a prophet and seer, praised him as a healer. He was especially blessed by God: the saint became the only person who saw God in the Holy Trinity after the Birth of Christ (that is, in New Testament times: the biblical books of the Old Testament tell about the appearance of the Trinity in the form of three Angels to the forefather Abraham). After his death, the saint was glorified by God: the relics of Saint Alexander of Svir were preserved almost like the body of a living person, they exude many miracles and are even called "White Robes of Transfiguration", that is, the saint was transformed like Christ.