To: Paved Paradise
It’s interesting that Luke just happened to be a painter and painted in the style of all the Greeks who came way after him.... sometimes a little skepticism is good.
That's not the original, but a stylized copy. The original hung at the Shrine of the Hodegetria in Constantinople from about AD 450 on--it was brought to the city by the Empress Pulcheria.
The original was destroyed by the Turks in 1453 after they conquered Constantinople. It is said they despoiled it of its silver frame, spit on it and then smashed it to pieces.
Skepticism is easy if one does absolutely no research first.
5,649 posted on
06/13/2008 8:53:00 PM PDT by
Antoninus
(Every second spent bashing McCain is time that could be spent helping Conservatives downticket.)
To: Antoninus; Paved Paradise
Skepticism is easy if one does absolutely no research first.
Or, if their "research" is based on legend.
5,687 posted on
06/14/2008 8:32:53 AM PDT by
OLD REGGIE
(I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know no thing.)
To: Antoninus
You make some grand assumptions.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson