Posted on 03/12/2019 5:06:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
Iconographers from Kursk, Russia have begun work on recreating an ancient icon of the martyrs Sergius and Bacchus that was destroyed by militants in Syria.
For more than 8 centuries, the icon was preserved in one of the most ancient Orthodox monasteries in Syria, in the Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus in Maaloula. Sergius and Bacchus were Roman soldiers and secret Christians who embraced martyrdom in the times of persecution.
“In 2013, when Maaloula was captured by one of, as they call them in the West, the “moderate opposition” militants, Al-Nusra, they began to destroy churches and monasteries, including the Church of the Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus. Many shrines that were there were desecrated, and the icon that we are now trying to recreate was irrevocably lost,” said Fr. Alexander, the head of the iconography department of the Kursk Theological Seminary.
The iconography workshop of St. Andrei Rublev at Holy Trinity Church in Kursk has undertaken to recreate the lost sacred object of the 13th century. The main work is being done by Stanislav Proskurin, who has been painting icons for 17 years. For him, the return of the holy icon to the people requires a special mindset.
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
There is no moderate Islam, there is only Islam.
I want to know where rhe UN is with these crimes against civilization. Guess its the wrong kind of civilization.
ISIS and the Taliban destroyed many ancient historical monuments in the spirit of establishing an untainted Muslim Caliphate.
Liberals are destroying American historical monuments in their attempt to create a world of untainted liberal doctrine.
“There are no coincidences”
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