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The usage of gold leaf in Byzantine artwork is indicative that the work is meant to be divine and spiritual. [14] The icon was created by incorporating egg tempera on gold leaf over a wooden panel. [4] The wood panel then is covered with gesso and linen. [4] [5] The icon has a height of 37.8 cm, a width of 31.4 cm and a depth of 5.3 cm. [4]
The Feast of Orthodoxy (or Sunday of Orthodoxy or Triumph of Orthodoxy) is celebrated on the first Sunday of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church and other churches using the Byzantine Rite to commemorate, originally, only the final defeat of iconoclasm [1] on the first Sunday of Lent in 843, and later also opposition to all heterodoxy. [2]
The last Greek Catholic congregation of any size, the Arabic-speaking Melkite Greek Catholic Church (approx. 1.5 million), predominantly resident in Syria and with a large diaspora, is descended from a split within the far more numerous Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (approx. 4.3 million), when in 1729 a claimant to the Antiochene See ...
Mid-Pentecost or Midfeast, also Meso-Pentecost (from Greek: Μεσοπεντηκοστή; Russian: Преполове́ние Пятидеся́тницы) is a feast day which occurs during the Paschal season in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches and Eastern Lutheran Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite.
Palm Sunday, or the Triumphant Entry of Christ into Jerusalem: last Sunday before Pascha (7 days) Great and Holy Monday : Joseph the All-Comely (from the Old Testament ), who was sold into slavery by his brethren, and the withering of the fig tree (Matthew 21:18-22) [ b ] (6 days)
Often, when objects are blessed in the church (such as the palms on Palm Sunday, Icons or sacred vessels) the blessing is completed by a triple sprinkling with holy water using the words, "This (name of item) is blessed by the sprinkling of this holy water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
While people around the world prayed for peace in Ukraine on Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Christians observed Palm Sunday, with Russia’s deadly war raging all around them. In cities like Lviv and ...
Russian icon of the Holy Trinity The icon of St Nicolas carved in stone (between c. 12 and 15th centuries), at the Radomysl Castle, in Ukraine [2] Luke painting the Theotokos of Vladimir (16th century, Pskov) A rare ceramic icon depicting Saint Arethas (Byzantine, 10th century) Image of the Saviour Not Made by Hand: a traditional Orthodox ...