Hymnographers, chanters and a painter of the Mother of God: this set honors the saints who gave the Church its music and its images. A fitting gift for cantors, choirs and iconographers.
These saints gave the Church its hymns, chant and sacred writing and images.
This bundle includes 8 different handmade prayer cards, one of each saint listed below.
The 8 cards in this bundle
- Saint Yared: The sixth century father of Ethiopian liturgical music, to whom tradition credits the Zema chant. Feast: May 19 in the Ethiopian calendar.
- Saint Romanos the Melodist: A sixth century Syrian-born deacon and poet of Constantinople, the composer of nearly a thousand hymns and patron of church singers.
- Saint Gomidas Keumurjian (Gomidas of Constantinople): An Armenian Catholic priest who died of prolonged psychological torture connected with the 1915 Armenian genocide. Commemorated October 4.
- Saint Hildegard of Bingen: A twelfth century Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer and healer who lived under what she called the Living Light. Feast: September 17.
- Saint Ephrem the Syrian: Deacon, hymn writer and Doctor of the Church, a luminous voice of early Syriac Christianity. Feast: January 28 in the East and June 9 in the West.
- Saint John of Damascus: An eighth century theologian and hymn writer who left court service for monastic life near Jerusalem and defended the veneration of holy icons.
- Saint Luke the Evangelist: A physician and outsider who came to Christ, walked beside the apostles, and wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
- Saint Gregory of Narek: A tenth century Armenian monk, mystic and poet near Lake Van, declared a Doctor of the Church in 2015. Feast: February 27.
Each card features sacred artwork on the front and a short biography with a prayer on the back. Every card is handmade and laminated in Austin, Texas, and a prayer is said for the person who will receive it.
Hymnographers, chanters and a painter of the Mother of God: this set honors the saints who gave the Church its music and its images. A fitting gift for cantors, choirs and iconographers.
These saints gave the Church its hymns, chant and sacred writing and images.
This bundle includes 8 different handmade prayer cards, one of each saint listed below.
The 8 cards in this bundle
- Saint Yared: The sixth century father of Ethiopian liturgical music, to whom tradition credits the Zema chant. Feast: May 19 in the Ethiopian calendar.
- Saint Romanos the Melodist: A sixth century Syrian-born deacon and poet of Constantinople, the composer of nearly a thousand hymns and patron of church singers.
- Saint Gomidas Keumurjian (Gomidas of Constantinople): An Armenian Catholic priest who died of prolonged psychological torture connected with the 1915 Armenian genocide. Commemorated October 4.
- Saint Hildegard of Bingen: A twelfth century Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer and healer who lived under what she called the Living Light. Feast: September 17.
- Saint Ephrem the Syrian: Deacon, hymn writer and Doctor of the Church, a luminous voice of early Syriac Christianity. Feast: January 28 in the East and June 9 in the West.
- Saint John of Damascus: An eighth century theologian and hymn writer who left court service for monastic life near Jerusalem and defended the veneration of holy icons.
- Saint Luke the Evangelist: A physician and outsider who came to Christ, walked beside the apostles, and wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
- Saint Gregory of Narek: A tenth century Armenian monk, mystic and poet near Lake Van, declared a Doctor of the Church in 2015. Feast: February 27.
Each card features sacred artwork on the front and a short biography with a prayer on the back. Every card is handmade and laminated in Austin, Texas, and a prayer is said for the person who will receive it.
