was shown to visitors at least into the early twentieth century. Ilya is also depicted in the two fifteenth and sixteenth century Icons of the Battle of the Novgorodians with the Suzdalians housed in the Novgorod Museum and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. He is shown bringing the Icon of Our Lady of the Sign from the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilin Street to the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom during the Suzdalian siege of the city in 1169. The Mother of God is said to have saved the city at that time. He is also featured prominently in the tale that surrounds the event and the chronicle accounts of the siege. Ilya is also depicted in a 19th-century wall fresco in the Pretechenskaia Porch of the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom. References 1186 deaths 12th-century Christian saints Archbishops and Metropolitans of Novgorod Burials at the Cathedral of St. Sophia, Novgorod Russian saints Miracle workers Year of birth unknown