St Alexandra (passion-bearer Empress) & Guardian Angel Folding Diptych
$69
Collectible Christian Orthodox named portable folding icon, a diptych for the home: “St Alexandra (passion-bearer Empress) & 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 Alexandra 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
St Alexandra, Passion-Bearer
A convert’s whole heart, and a mother’s prayer at a sickbed.
Orthodox mothers pray to the Passion-Bearer Alexandra for a loving and faithful marriage, for the health of sick children, and for strength when a child’s illness does not end. Converts ask her to deepen their love for Orthodoxy.
Why this saint
Princess Alix of Hesse lost her mother as a child. After long and sincere searching she embraced Orthodoxy with her whole heart and received the name Alexandra. She was the mother of four daughters and a long-awaited son, Alexei, who suffered from a grave hereditary illness. Her hidden sorrow drove her to constant prayer. She trained as a sister of mercy, and with her elder daughters she nursed the wounded with her own hands. In captivity she remained the heart of the family’s prayer, reading Scripture and forgiving their persecutors. She was martyred with her family at Yekaterinburg in July 1918.
Traditional patronage
- Prayed to for a loving, faithful marriage
- Prayed to for the health of sick children
- Prayed to for strength for mothers caring for a chronically ill child
- Prayed to for raising children in the faith
- Prayed to for a convert’s deepening love for Orthodoxy
- Prayed to for patience and faith in suffering
- Protector of the family hearth, of mothers in sorrow, and of sick children
- Patron of wives and mothers, nurses and sisters of mercy, and converts to Orthodoxy
- Feast days
17 July, with the Royal Family (the Old Calendar’s 4 July falls on the same civil day). Her name-saint, the Holy Martyr Alexandra of Rome: 23 April (6 May on the Old Calendar).
- Name-day names
Alexandra, Aleksandra, Sasha, Alexa. An Alexandra traditionally keeps the Martyr Alexandra of Rome, and since 2000 many Russian Alexandras keep 17 July as well.
- For whom
a mother of a sick child, a nurse, a convert, an Alexandra on her name day, a bride.
- 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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