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Such an image is often placed in the apse of the sanctuary of an Orthodox church above the Holy Table (altar). [2] As with most Orthodox icons of Mary, the letters ΜΡ ΘΥ (short for ΜΗΤΗΡ ΘΕΟΥ, "Mother of God") are usually placed on the upper left and right of the head of the Virgin Mary.
We venerate thy holy image as the symbol of thy glory, All-Holy Virgin of Jerusalem, we venerate thee, O Holy Mother of God. From thee springest forth mysteriously rivers of miracles; and thou irrigatest the hearts and souls of them that cry unto thee in faith; Glory to the Divine Word, O Pure One, glory to thy virginity, glory to thy unfeigned ...
Depicting the Coronation of Mary as Queen of the Heavens by her son, Jesus Christ, sometimes combined with the Assumption of Mary, is a tradition known since the 12th century. They often depict birds, as an appropriate image of God as the Holy Spirit. Holy Family is iconography of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus.
An image of the Annunciation, depicting the angel Gabriel (left) speaking to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God. This line is part of the story of the Annunciation, when the Virgin Mary was told by ...
Panagia Portaitissa, the Montreal replica. According to the Orthodox Church's sacred tradition, the icon was at one time in the possession of a widow in Nicaea.Not wanting the icon to be seized and destroyed by the iconoclasts, she spent all night in prayer and then cast the icon into the Mediterranean Sea.
The title "Mother of God" (Theotokos) for Mary was confirmed by the First Council of Ephesus, held at the Church of Mary in 431. The Council decreed that Mary is the Mother of God because her son Jesus is one person who is both God and man, divine and human. [28]
Mary Helen Peak Patterson, a "tireless crusader" in the effort to preserve the history of the Memphis-based Church of God in Christ and the widow of J.O. Patterson Sr., the church's longtime ...
The status of Mary as Theotokos was a topic of theological dispute in the 4th and 5th centuries and was the subject of the decree of the Council of Ephesus of 431 to the effect that, in opposition to those who denied Mary the title Theotokos ("the one who gives birth to God") but called her Christotokos ("the one who gives birth to Christ ...