Holy Foremother Eve & Guardian Angel Folding Diptych
$69
Collectible Christian Orthodox named portable folding icon, a diptych for the home: “Holy Foremother Eve & Guardian Angel”. It consists of two portable pocket icons, each set in a wooden frame, joined together.
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The wood is pine; the icon images are produced by a printed reproduction process, laminated and carefully protected by glass. Both the front and the back of the diptych are covered in beautiful velvet. Its compact size makes it convenient to keep at home or to carry on the road while traveling. When folded, the diptych takes up minimal space and is secured by a side clasp. This portable Orthodox icon diptych makes a thoughtful and meaningful gift for every Christian, a loved one, or a person named Eve who is celebrating a name day or another special occasion.
Made in Russia
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Dimensions and materials
- Folded
- 3.15 × 3.55 in (8 × 9.5 cm)
- Open
- 6.3 × 3.55 in (16.5 × 9.5 cm)
- Thickness
- 1.2 in (3.5 cm)
- Origin
- Made in Russia
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Return any item within 30 days of delivery for a refund. Consecrated items are final sale. Returns policy
Holy Foremother Eve
The mother of all living, raised by Christ’s own hand.
Orthodox Christians pray to the Foremother Eve for the gift of motherhood and a safe childbirth, for a happy marriage, and for true repentance and return to God. Her icon carries the whole Gospel: the first sorrow, and the first promise of a Savior.
Why this saint
God made Eve from Adam’s side to be his companion, and she was named “the mother of all living.” Deceived by the serpent, she ate of the forbidden tree, and with Adam she was driven out of Paradise. Yet God did not abandon her. At their exile He gave the first promise of a Savior: the Seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head. Tradition holds that our first parents repented their whole lives long. The Church honors Eve among the Holy Forefathers, who died in faith waiting for Christ. In the icon of the Resurrection, Christ raises Adam and Eve by the hand from the tombs of Hades.
Traditional patronage
- Prayed to for the gift of motherhood and a safe childbirth
- Prayed to for a happy marriage
- Prayed to for true repentance and return to God
- Prayed to for hope in God’s promise of salvation
- Prayed to for humility and obedience to God’s word
- Protector from despair after sin
- Protector from the deceit of the serpent (temptation)
- Protector of mothers and their children
- Patron of mothers, of women and wives, and of the repentant
- Feast days
the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (the second Sunday before the Nativity, 11–17 December; 24–30 December on the Old Calendar), and the Sunday of the Holy Fathers just before the Nativity. Both are movable.
- Name-day names
Eve, Eva, Yeva, Evi. Greek calendars keep Εύα on the Sunday of the Forefathers. In Russian and Ukrainian use, an Eva often keeps the day of the New Martyr Abbess Eva instead.
- For whom
every Eva, Eve or Yeva, a mother-to-be, a bride, a woman coming back to the Church.
- Guardian Angel panel
standard Angel.
The Guardian Angel on the other leaf
The angel given to you at baptism.
The Orthodox Church teaches that at holy baptism God gives every Christian a personal Guardian Angel. The angel stays beside that Christian for life: guarding from evil, helping in doing good, praying before God, and accompanying the soul after death. Christ said of the little ones that “their angels always behold the face of My Father in heaven” (Matthew 18:10). The canon to the Guardian Angel says the angel is given “from holy baptism” and “forever.” Every morning and evening Orthodox Christians pray, “O Angel of Christ, my holy guardian.” That is why Russian piety sets the Guardian Angel beside your patron saint: the two heavenly companions you received at baptism, in one icon.
Traditional patronage
- Prayed to for protection from every evil and danger
- Prayed to for help in doing good, and against one’s sins and passions
- Prayed to for intercession before God and guidance on the path of salvation
- Prayed to for safe journeys: “He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways”
- Protector of children from harm
- Protector on every road: of travelers and drivers
- Protector from evil spirits and their snares, and from sudden calamity
- Companion and guardian of the soul after death
- Feast
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and all the Bodiless Powers, 8 November (21 November on the Old Calendar). The Orthodox Church has no separate feast of Guardian Angels. The 2 October feast is Catholic.
- Name day
Angelos / Angeliki (Greek custom, 8 November).
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