The icon depicts the Lord Jesus Christ in the form of a Shepherd carrying a sheep on his shoulders. The meaning of the image is revealed in the Gospel words: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:11). The sheep in the context of this iconography symbolizes a fallen man, for the sake of whose salvation the Lord incarnated, endured suffering on the Cross and death, as indicated by the wounds from nails on the back of the palms, as well as the tree of the Cross behind his shoulders
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