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Bulgarian Hand Painted Icon of Saint Petka « Bulgarian Crafts & Art « Home
We offer you a hand painted icon of Saint Petka. The icon is made in Bulgaria, according to the original medieval Bulgarian orthodox painting traditions (16th c.). For its make was used dark stained wood. The icon is tempera painted. The red color symbolize divinity and the transcending of the limits of mortality and the Gold is to symbolize the power of spirit.
Patron saint of embroiderers; needle workers; spinners; weavers.
The icon makes an excellent gift for your friends and family and it will remind you of the intransient values we, human beings, have a tendency to forget about now and then.
Additional information about Saint Petka, as found on the Internet:
Born to wealthy, noble, pious landowners. During services at age ten, at the Church of the Holy Theotokos, she heard the words, Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. They had a profound effect on the girl, and became the subject of her meditations.
Petca started dressing poor people in her expensive clothes; this led to her patronage of people involved in spinner, sewing, etc. Her parents objected, finding the girl's charity more than they could understand or support, and tried to get her to stop. To follow her calling, Petca left her parents, her wealth, and status, and ran away to Constantinople. There she spent her time in prayer, meditating on the words of Christ and the relics of the saints.
Her parents travelled from city to city, unsuccessfully searching for the girl. To elude them she travelled to Chalcedon, then lived for five years at the church of the Most Holy Theotokos in Heraclea Pontica near the Black Sea. She spent her days and nights in prayer, living a severely austere life. She received visions of the Virgin Mary during her prayers.
In one of the visions, she received the message that she should go to Jerusalem. After some time in the city, she joined a covent in the Jordanian desert. A few years later, she returned to Constantinople, then at age 25 moved the village of Katikratia where she lived her remaining two years at the church of the Holy Apostles.
General information In 865 the Bulgarians were THE FIRST Slavonic people to adopt Christianity from Byzantium as its official religion.
Since then the icon, venerated as an especially sacred object of cult and rite, has developed as a fundamental part of the Bulgarian art from the ninth century until present days. The Bulgarian icon painters had left their deep mark in the overall development of Christian Orthodox Art. Their trail can be seen in the monasteries of Mount Athos and the south-west Balkans, or in Wallachia, Moldavia and Russia, whose icon masters had followed the Bulgarian canonical pattern.
The rich historical background of the Bulgarian icon and the fact that it is a result of the efforts of a small but gifted nation makes it an inseparable element of European cultural history.
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