Saint Lazarus of Murom

Orthodox icon of Saint Lazarus of Murom on thick plywood 20mm, which does not sting and keeps its shape over time. Preparation with acrylic stucco and have been used acrylic colors. It has been covered with varnish to keep the colors undiluted in time and humidity. Hanging clip included on the back of the icon. 

Saint Lazarus of Murom was a Greek, born at Constantinople. He became a monk at the High-Mount Monastery under the Elder Athanasius Diskotes. Eight years later, Lazarus was under the guidance of Bishop Basil of Caesarea. As a noted iconographer St. Lazarus made a copy of Novgorod's Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God for the Caesarea diocese and lived there for ten years. After the death of Bishop Basil of Caesarea and Saint Basil, Archbishop of Novgorod, St. Lazarus went to Mucha(Murom) Island in Lake Onega and found a monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and two churches of the Resurrection of Lazarus and of Saint John the Forerunner. St. Lazarus departed to the Lord on March 8, 1391 at the age of 105 years. They buried him in a chapel beside the church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.