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This icon pendant depicts the Dormition of the Theotokos. Comes with choice of chain necklace or ribbon neclace w/ lobster claw clasp We now celebrate Her holy Dormition, or Death, through which She was brought “a little lower than the angels,” (Ps. 8:5) and yet She ascended incomparably higher than the angels and the archangels…, and is above them because of Her closeness to God, and by the wondrous deeds which were, from the beginning, written and accomplished regarding Her. It was on Her account that the God-inspired prophets prophesied, and the miracles were performed that foreshadowed this great and universal wonder: the ever-Virgin Mother of God. The testimonies of the Spirit, in various ways, indicate beforehand types of the future truth. (Joachim and Anna, in their old age, would become parents of a child) who would without seed give birth to the One begotten of God the Father from eternity….