About 1497.

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Jesus Christ is standing against the background of a high building in the center of the composition. His right hand is raised. He is flanked by two groups of apostles. Christ’s face is turned to the Apostle Thomas who is touching the wounds on Jesus’ body. Jesus Christ is standing against the background of a high building in the center of the composition. His right hand is raised. He is flanked by two groups of apostles. Christ’s face is turned to the Apostle Thomas who is touching the wounds on Jesus’ body. 

The subject is based on the story from the Gospel of John. It says that the resurrected Jesus appeared to the disciples, but Apostle Thomas was not with them. He refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles, until he could see and feel the wounds received by Jesus on the cross. After eight days Jesus came again and said to Thomas: ‘Reach here your finger, and look at my hands; and reach here your hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing’.

The icon was restored by O.V. Lelekova in the All-Union Research Institute for Restoration in 1969.