St Herman of Alaska & Guardian Angel Folding Diptych
$69
Collectible Christian Orthodox named portable folding icon, a diptych for the home: “St Herman of Alaska & 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 Herman 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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We pack every order within two business days and ship to all 50 states, DC and APO/FPO addresses. Shipping is free on orders of $99 or more, and $6.95 below that. Shipping policy
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Return any item within 30 days of delivery for a refund. Consecrated items are final sale. Returns policy
St Herman of Alaska
America’s first saint, protector against flood and fire.
American Orthodox Christians pray to St Herman for protection from floods, fire and storms at sea, for the defense of the oppressed, and for help whenever it is needed. His scroll reads: “Let us love God above all.”
Why this saint
Herman was a monk of Valaam. In 1793 he was one of ten monks sent to bring the Gospel to Alaska. On Spruce Island near Kodiak, which he called “New Valaam,” he lived for decades in prayer and hard labor. He taught orphans, fed the poor, nursed the sick through an epidemic, and defended the native people against abuse. When a flood threatened the island, he set an icon of the Mother of God on the shore and said the water would rise no higher, and it did not. When the forest burned, he turned a strip of moss, and the fire stopped at the line. At his repose in 1837 a pillar of light stood over the island.
Traditional patronage
- Prayed to for protection from floods and rising water
- Prayed to for protection from fire
- Prayed to for safety at sea and in storms
- Prayed to for help and protection whenever it is needed
- Prayed to for the defense of the oppressed and offended, and for healing
- Prayed to for the peace of the Church in America and a love for prayer to the Lord Jesus
- Protector of seafarers from storms, and of orphans and children
- Patron of Alaska, of North America and the Orthodox Church in America
- Patron of the native peoples of Alaska and of missionaries
- Feast days
Repose, 13 December (26 December on the Old Calendar). Glorification, 9 August on both calendars, the date of his glorification at Kodiak in 1970.
- Name-day names
Herman, German, Germanos.
- For whom
American converts, Alaskan and OCA families, fishermen, anyone who lives where the water rises or the forests burn. (Flood, fire and storm come from the miracles in his Life and American parish prayer.)
- 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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