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The full-colour monographic study by Rostyslav Zabashta is dedicated to the image of Onufriy the Great, an early Christian hermit-ascetic, one of the most revered saints. The author focuses on the reasons for the spread and rise of his cult in the Ukrainian lands and the peculiarities of the iconographic embodiment of his image in painting, sculpture, works of decorative and applied art, etc. Period: the developed Middle Ages - the end of the Modern Age. The main emphasis is placed on the coverage of sacred and artistic ritual practices of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 390 small and large-format illustrations from museum, private, and temple collections of Ukraine, Poland, Italy, England, Greece, and other countries.