THE CALL OF SPIRIT

          An angel, dashing towards the call of spirit, holding a cross in his hands, has fixed his eyes on God, as if receiving His blessing.

         On its wings there is a picture of a bird’s wing, which is an emblem of swiftness speed and one of the attributes of the God of messages (Hermes, Mercury). In the Russian heraldry of the 18th – 19th centuries it was used like the emblem of protection, benevolence and charge.