Family icon - in a broad sense, an icon belonging to a family, inherited from generation to generation, a family heirloom. This can be an image that has any iconography, for example, it can be icons that parents of their children bless for family life, wedding icons kept as a relic. More precisely, the term refers to specific iconography: a "family icon" is a custom-made icon depicting together the same patron saints of family members who are not usually grouped together but worshiped separately.
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