St Nicholas the Wonderworker & Guardian Angel Folding Diptych
$69
Collectible Christian Orthodox named portable folding icon, a diptych for the home: “St Nicholas the Wonderworker & 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 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 Nicholas the Wonderworker
The speedy helper, for the road and for the home.
Orthodox Christians pray to St Nicholas before every journey, for their children, and in any hard hour. He is called the “speedy helper” because he answers quickly. In this diptych he is paired with the Novgorod-style Guardian Angel, who holds a cross and sphere.
Why this saint
Nicholas gave away his whole inheritance to the poor, always in secret. By night he threw gold through a ruined father’s window so that the man’s three daughters could marry honorably. As Archbishop of Myra he was gentle with his flock and fearless for the truth. He snatched the executioner’s sword from above three innocent men, and he calmed a storm and raised a sailor who had fallen from the mast. In a famine he sent a merchant with grain to his city. After his repose his relics flowed with fragrant myrrh. To this day, in Russia above all, he is the first saint called on when someone leaves home.
Traditional patronage
- Prayed to for safe journeys and a safe return home
- Prayed to for the protection and well-being of children
- Prayed to for a good marriage for one’s daughters, and a good and holy family life
- Prayed to for justice for the wrongly accused, and the release of captives and prisoners
- Prayed to for deliverance from misfortune and illness, and relief from poverty
- Prayed to for help in any hard hour, and for the return of the straying to the true path
- Protector of travelers on the road, and of sailors from storms and drowning
- Protector of the poor from want and despair, and of the innocent from unjust sentences
- Patron of children, merchants, young women hoping to marry, Russia and Greece
- Feast days
6 December (19 December on the Old Calendar); Translation of his relics to Bari, 9 May (22 May on the Old Calendar), a Russian and Slavic feast; his Nativity, 29 July (11 August on the Old Calendar).
- Name-day names
Nicholas, Nikolai, Nikolaos, Nikola, Mykola, Nick, Nikoletta.
- For whom
every Nicholas on his name day, a driver or a traveler, a godchild, a family setting up its first icon corner. (Santa Claus and the brewers’ and toymakers’ patronages are Western only.)
- Guardian Angel panel
Novgorod-style, with cross and sphere.
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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