Can Anyone Identify This Pendant Please?

[RSDonovan]

This Pendant is about 1.5 inches by 1 inch.

On one side there is a picture of a Saint, with fingers crossed and holding a scroll. There is a word (presumably the Saint's name in very small script.

On the other side in some writing in a language or script that I can't identify. The same name of the Saint appears within the script.

I have no idea where it came from, nor how it got to be owned by my family.

http://tinyurl.com/mruv4pd

Thanks in advance

[Peter Pedant]

not really

The script is Cyrillic - and so the icon is Russian or could be Serbian

They both have orthodox chrches you can google

Ask a friendly Pole - they all, lucky people had to learn Russian at skool

[RSDonovan]

Thanks PP

I transliterated the Cyrillic and found that it is in fact "Sergius of Radonezh", a 15th century Russian who more or less founded the Russian Orthodox church!

[Peter Pedant]

Bl++dy well done !

I chose Serbian - but there were immediately difficulties as Serbian is tranliterated as srb (yeah a word without vowels)
and then found Serbian Cyrillic is more modern than Russian (huh that was a surprise) and had the rule one sound - one letter

had a stab at St Serbius - where there are far too many vowels

and in my list of suitable saints completely overlooked St Sergius

On the front to the left - the two letters are (pi)(rho) pr
and that is short for Pater (father) suitable as he is father of the Church

works in Greek and probably in Russian

[grasscarp]

The first word is image. (I have been learning Russian for a few years)