To: hardworking
Don't imagine:
The depictions of Christ in the Holy Icons are all patterned on the likenesses of Our Lord from the early Palestinian school and the Icon-Not-Made-By-Hands, with which they agree. The latter is a miraculous likeness Christ Himself produced and sent to King Abgar of Edessa to cure him of leprosy (King Abgar had expressed his faith that merely seeing Our Lord would cure him). It was carried off from Constantinople at the time of the Latin sack of the city, and was in Paris until it and the crown of thorns, also looted from Constantinople, were destroyed in the name of 'reason' by the French Revolutionaries.
99 posted on
10/25/2006 7:44:04 PM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: The_Reader_David
Most beautiful religious artwork. (Post 99)
113 posted on
10/25/2006 7:58:45 PM PDT by
Ciexyz
(Satisfied owner of a 2007 Toyota Corolla.)
To: The_Reader_David
Thank you! May I know the source of the information, as I am a history enthusiast. Thanks again.
126 posted on
10/25/2006 8:13:12 PM PDT by
hardworking
(Just once, I'd like to vote for a candidate who's actually had to meet a payroll.)
To: The_Reader_David
Whatever his appearance, he was not an attractive man.
Isa 53:1-3
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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