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The Transfiguration of Jesus has been an important subject in Christian art, above all in the Eastern church, some of whose most striking icons show the scene. The Feast of the Transfiguration has been celebrated in the Eastern church since at least the 6th century and it is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Eastern Orthodoxy , and so is widely ...
According to these theologians, hell is the condition of those who remain unreconciled to the uncreated light and love of and for God and are burned by it. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] According to Iōannēs Polemēs, Theophanes of Nicea believed that, for sinners, "the divine light will be perceived as the punishing fire of hell".
The Transfiguration is preceded by a one-day Forefeast and is followed by an Afterfeast of eight days, ending the day before the Forefeast of the Dormition. In Byzantine theology, the Tabor Light is the light revealed on Mount Tabor at the Transfiguration of Jesus, identified with the light seen by Paul on the road to Damascus.
The clergy of the church, which included three priests, a deacon, and three psalmists, was recognised by the Holy Synod in 1894. From 1883, A.G. Matveevsky served as the priest of the Transfiguration Church. [2] An official record of the most significant local events was preserved at the church. [1] The cathedral seen in 1906
The Transfiguration of the Lord, celebrated on 6 August; The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, celebrated on 14 September; The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, celebrated on 9 November (this is a feast of the Lord because the basilica is dedicated to him under the title of the Most Holy Saviour).
The Roman Catholic Church has approved the image's use in association with the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and some believe it to be the very cloth that covered Jesus at burial. However, the shroud's linen has been carbon dated , placing its origin in the 13th or early 14th century CE. [ 17 ]
The icon was given to the regiment's field hospital in 1900 by the commander of the regiment at the time, the general-major Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich. On a lectern (bookstand) in the right kliros of the church is an icon of the Image of Edessa, brought there in 1938 from the Trinity Church on Stremyannaya Street (Saint Petersburg) .
The Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople featured these mosaics of the apostles in narrative scenes.This included scenes of communion of the apostles and the doubting Thomas story. [25] One example is the Icon of Peter as a Saint in St. Catherine's Monastery, Egypt dated to the 6th century. [26]