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To: MarMema; crazykatz; don-o; JosephW; lambo; MoJoWork_n; newberger; Petronski; The_Reader_David; ...

Nativity of the Theotokos ping. She's a good person to cling to any day, but especially perhaps now given what our people are suffering in the Gulf states.


2 posted on 09/07/2005 4:43:46 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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One of the beautiful things about this icon is that it contains one of the few (perhaps the only?) portrayals in iconography of marital bliss and love. In the back left is a portrayal of the loving embrace between Joachim and Anna after the angel has told Joachim that their childless state will soon be ended with a miraculous birth in their old age (depicted on the right of the icon.)

This is an example of Orthodox iconography simultaneously showing events that happened at different times: the announcement of the angel, the meeting of Joachim and Anna after that, and Anna lying after her childbirth with the infant Theotokos at her feet.


7 posted on 09/07/2005 9:40:40 PM PDT by Agrarian
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