Description

Description: Icon of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco laminated and mounted on wood.

Produced by: Holy Trinity Icon Studio, Jordanville

Size: 6" x 7"

Parish icon of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, D.C. St. John was the founder of the parish.

The middle panel - St. John holding the cathedral.

Top middle panel - the Kursk icon, before which St. John reposed.

Left panels top to bottom - St. John's nativity, hierarchical consecration, bringing comfort to the poor in Shanghai, in Washington, D.C. in 1949.

Right panels top to bottom - St. John's monastic tonsure, building of the Shanghai Cathedral, collecting children for his orphanage, St. John's repose in Seattle.

Bottom panels - serving a panikhida for the assassinated King Alexander of Serbia, the completion of the San Francisco cathedral.