The Angels Playing the Mandolin
is 4.25 inches tall and hangs on your Christmas tree by a gold cord. These Little Angel Ornaments wings are ivory lined with gold and have touches of sparkly gold glitter. She is wearing a long grayish blue and gold dress with long ivory sleeves. These Unique Christmas Ornaments dress has a gold glittery hem and collar with a gold and silver design on the front. She also has a red shawl draped over her arms. The resin angel ornaments have long dirty blonde hair. This musical instrument ornaments angel is playing a brown and gold Mandolin Instrument. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

Angels.
According to many religions an angel is a spiritual being created by God. The word angel comes from a Greek word meaning messenger or one who is sent. According to religious tradition, angels live in heaven and act as God’s servants and as messengers between God and human beings. They also serve as guardians of individuals and nations. Angels traditionally are pictured as having a human body and wings. Poets and artists have portrayed angels as symbols of innocence or virtue.
In some religions, legends tell of bright, powerful spirits that appear in dreams and visions and protect people or tribes. In Hinduism and Buddhism, many major gods are accompanied by a band or court of spiritual beings.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed the most elaborate doctrines about angels. These religions recognize an order of beings in which angels rank above human beings but under God. God is all powerful and the human is sometimes portrayed as in Gods image. The concept of angels with a human body and wings began in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, and in Christianity. Later tradition refers to many archangels, angels of high rank, including Saint Michael.
Christian doctrine regarding angels reached full development during a AD 1100’s and 1200’s especially in the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas believed angels were necessary to fill the gap between God and human beings. He taught that countless numbers of angels existed and that they were immortal. According to Aquinas, angels knew everything except what depended on human choice and what was known only to God. The Islamic belief in angels resembles that of Judaism and Christianity. These three faiths place angels near God and give special duties to some. Select this link to view our Christian Gift Ideas.

Mandolins.
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a sound hole which is open and not decorated with an intricately carved grille like the Baroque era mandolins.
Originally mandolins had six double courses of gut string tuned similarly to lutes and plucked with the fingertip. The design common today has eight metal strings in four pairs which are plucked with a plectrum.
There are many variants including, Milanese, Lombard, Brescian, as well as four string, twelve string and sixteen string. Select this link to view our Old Gold Ornament Trees.