Christ Pantocrator

This icon on a gold background transports us into the divine world, that of eternity, where the very gentle, profound, and merciful gaze of the incarnate Son of God awaits us.
Here, Christ wears a purple tunic, a royal symbol of His divinity, and a blue-green mantle, whose color, being that of the terrestrial globe and material creation, traditionally signifies His humanity in iconography.
On each side of the head are the first and last letters of the name “Jesus Christ,” and in the cross of the halo, the letters of the divine Name revealed in the Old Testament: o ôn, “He Who Is” (Ex 3:14). The inscription at the bottom means Pantocrator, “the Almighty,” in Slavonic.