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This category relates to religious Eastern Orthodox icons, icon painting, and icon painters. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Coptic Orthodox Church Ethiopian Orthodox Church Eritrean Orthodox Church Ethiopian Catholic Church Eritrean Catholic Church Coptic Catholic Church: Major shrine: St. Takla Haymanot's Church (Alexandria) Debre Libanos, Ethiopia: Feast: 30 August every 24th day of the month (Ethiopian Orthodox) Attributes: Man with wings on his back and only one ...
The Orthodox icon of the Nativity uses certain imagery parallel to that on the epitaphios (burial shroud of Jesus) and other icons depicting the burial of Jesus on Good Friday. This is done intentionally to illustrate the theological point that the purpose of the Incarnation of Christ was to make possible the Crucifixion and Resurrection.
The Oriental Orthodox Churches, which today include the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, are referred to as "Non-Chalcedonian".
According to Christian legend, the image of Edessa, (known to the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Mandylion, a Medieval Greek word not applied in any other context), was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus was imprinted — the first icon ("image").
Ethiopian Christmas (Amharic: ገና [a]; Oromo: Ayaana; Tigrinya: ልደት [b]) is a holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches, as well as Protestant and Catholic denominations in Ethiopia, on 7 January (Tahsas 29 in the Ethiopian calendar).
Eastern Orthodox find the first instance of an image or icon in the Bible when God made man in his own image (Septuagint Greek eikona), in Genesis 1:26–27. [44] In Exodus, God commanded that the Israelites not make any graven image; soon afterwards, however, he commanded that they make graven images of cherubim and other like things, both as ...
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 Μ ΗΤΗ Ρ Θ ΕΟ Υ , " Mother of God ") are usually placed on the upper left and right of the head of the Virgin Mary.