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A person who wants to give a gift to a loved one, relative, friend, or colleague for an event is naturally inclined to make this gift especially memorable, exclusive, and, of course, useful. gift icons purchased in a specialized store will help to fully realize this idea. Being a special religious object filled with deep sacred meaning, an icon given from the heart will forever become a companion and assistant in the life and affairs of the person to whom it was presented.
A tradition reflected in the centuries
Anyone who thinks that giving iconographic images as a gift has become popular in our country only in recent decades is deeply mistaken. I have been giving icons as gifts for more than one century. And in Kievan Rus' they first appeared, immediately after its baptism, precisely as gifts. Thus, during his reign in Kyiv, Mstislav the Great was presented by the Patriarch of Constantinople Luke with the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, which is especially revered in our country.
And the miraculous icon of the Kozelshchyna Mother of God, which is now kept in a monastery in the Poltava region, was once (in the 17th century) presented to the wife of Siromakha, a Zaporizhzhia military scribe, an associate of the legendary hetman Polubotok.
When and to whom is it customary to give gifts?
Since an icon as a gift surpasses any other gift in its spiritual significance, it is worth choosing a significant event as an occasion for its presentation. This can be a church holiday from the number of twelve, the day of the baptism of a baby, a wedding. Recently, birthdays, name days, anniversaries have also been considered such an event, not without reason.
However, it should be borne in mind that such a gift will not be appropriate for just any person, but only for an Orthodox Christian. After all, presenting an Orthodox holy image as a gift, for example, to a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Shintoist, etc. may seem strange, if not offensive. Perhaps it is worth refraining from giving icons to atheists. Therefore, when choosing a gift, it is advisable to make sure of the religious affiliation of the person to whom it is intended.
The exclusive icons offered by the Fama Presents store can be:
- personal icons (they are given to both adults and children);
- patrons of the profession (they will take a worthy place in the office / office, they can be taken on the road); -
family;
- wedding;
- measured (given to a child at his baptism).
You can also buy images of saints here that help in certain specific situations. So, it is appropriate to give an icon of St. Panteleimon, and for a childless family that wants to have them, St. Matrona.
Why should you give preference to Fama Presents?
Kyiv is far from the only city in Ukraine where people give their loved ones, relatives, friends, business partners, high-ranking officials, and clergy expensive gifts, choosing icons as their quality. At the same time, you should not make purchases from random sellers who have recently flooded the market with low-quality products.
By purchasing an icon as a gift in the online icon store Fama Presents, the client can be guaranteed to be confident in:
the authenticity of the image of the saint, agreed with art historians;
its consecration according to Christian canons;
the adequacy of the cost of the image to its artistic and cultural value.
A large assortment allows you to make the optimal choice from among the carved, antique wooden, elite silver, inlaid and other icons widely presented in the catalog.
