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To: The_Reader_David

Could you send me a link? I would like to see the icons of the Virgin Mary. I have one of the icon of Jesus from St Catherine’s in Sinai.


132 posted on 03/25/2010 8:22:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: little jeremiah

I haven’t found any links to picture of the icons believed to be originals “written” by St. Luke. The Virgin of Vladimir (style) icon is generally believed to be a fairly faithful copy of one of St. Luke’s—a search turns of lots if pictures—and some claim the oldest extant icon of that style (*The* Virgin of Vladimir) was by St. Luke’s hand.

But the only one I’ve seen attested as being an original by St. Luke’s hand is a small icon done as bas relief in carved mastic that is in the keeping of the Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos. My old priest, Archimandrite Daniel Griffith, tells of venerating that icon when he served the Church of Greece for eight years on loan from the Antiochian Archdiocese. But I can’t find any links to online pictures of that icon.


139 posted on 03/25/2010 9:25:48 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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