About 1497. About 1497.
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The saint is depicted in a white sakkos (bishop’s chasuble) with black crosses and strips and a light cyan omophorion. He is holding the closed Gospel with both hands. The saint is depicted in a white sakkos (bishop’s chasuble) with black crosses and strips and a light cyan omophorion. He is holding the closed Gospel with both hands.
Saint John Chrysostom was the Archbishop of Constantinople, a theologian, one of the Three Holy Hierarchs and Doctors of the Church alongside Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus.
The icon was restored by A.I. Gogoleva and A.P. Petrov in the All-Union Research Institute for Restoration in 1976 and 1977.
