Royal Passion-Bearers (Romanov family) & Guardian Angel Folding Diptych
$69
Collectible Christian Orthodox named portable folding icon, a diptych for the home: “Royal Passion-Bearers (Romanov family) & 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 Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia or Alexei 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 Royal Passion-Bearers & Guardian Angel
A family that lived as one household of the Church.
Orthodox families pray to the Royal Passion-Bearers for love and unity in the home, for a faithful marriage, and for healing of sick children. Here the whole family stands on a blue ground, beside the Guardian Angel.
Why these saints
Nicholas, Alexandra and their children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei were bound together by love. The Church’s hymns praise how they built their home on love, kept their marriage honorable and raised their daughters as wise virgins for Christ. Alexei bore a grave illness from childhood as a cross from the Lord, without complaint. The mother and elder daughters served the wounded as sisters of mercy. In captivity they bore humiliation with meekness, prayed together, and forgave their persecutors. They were killed together at Yekaterinburg in July 1918. Collections of testimonies record many healings through their prayers.
Traditional patronage
- Prayed to for love and unity in the family
- Prayed to for a faithful and honorable marriage
- Prayed to for raising children in the faith
- Prayed to for healing of sick children
- Prayed to for comfort for parents grieving over children in sickness or sin
- Prayed to for patience and meekness in suffering, and forgiveness of enemies
- Protector of the family hearth, and of children from sickness and the passions of this age
- Protector of the persecuted, and of Orthodox families from division
- Patron of Christian families as a “domestic church,” of parents, and of children and youth
- Feast day
17 July (the Old Calendar’s 4 July falls on the same civil day; the OCA also lists them on 17 July).
- For whom
a young family, parents of a sick child, a Russian or Serbian household, godparents.
- 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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