Byzantine Russian Orthodox Icon Nativity of Christ Icon Triptych Wooden Gold and Silver Foiled With Saints

Icons with gold foil on hinged wood panels. Triptych of the Nativity Outer doors: Top: Kings David and Solomon Bottom: The Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary Inside doors: Top – Angels in Adoration Bottom – The Three Wise Men and Two Angels Center Panel: The Virgin is pictured reclining (as in an effortless birth) in a cave with Christ in a manger which also signifies His tomb. TROPARION (Fourth Tone) Your Nativity, O Christ Our God, has shed the light of knowledge upon the world. Through it, those who had been star-worshipers learned through a star to worship You, O Sun of Justice, and to recognize in You the One who rises and who comes from on high. Glory to You O Lord! KONTAKION (Third Tone) Today the Virgin gives birth to the One who surpasses all essences, and the earth offers a cave to God, the Inaccessible One. Angels sing his glory together with the shepherds: for to us is born a Child, God in all eternity. MANIFICATION Magnify, O my soul, the Virg