Saint Basil The Great Silk Screen Icon – Engraved Silver & Wood MC Series is certified icon with a stylized metal frame. This series can be wall mount or standing, high quality collectable icon. Authentically made in Greece, and shipped from USA. Protector of the poor and weak, Saint Basil, a Father and Teacher of the Christian Church grew up in Caesarea of Cappadocia to noble and wealthy parents with Christian beliefs. He studied philosophy, rhetoric, grammar, astronomy and medicine and taught the art of rhetoric. He lived an ascetic life as a hermit in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia. He retired at the Monastery of Pontos as a monk; He fought against moral decay and reformed monasticism, he built the famous “Vasiliadaa”, a complex of charitable institutions, including an almshouse, orphanage, nursing home, providing food and care to thousands of patients of any age, gender and race.