#Eastern Icons

[georgethehooman]

Icons aren't always literal, they can convey a meaning that's deeper

one interprets it because St Christopher came from a race that was considered Barbaric

we know from the story that the saint was a very strong man who worships deities, but he later longed to worship a god that's the strongest

then long story short he met our LORD in the form of a child who is stronger than anything, then he repented

the saint was depicted as dog-headed human, why?

The name Barbarian to describe the uncivilized, is speculated to come from the noises dogs make (the barking dogs make) this can be because

dogs are the creatures closest to man, called man's best friend, dogs aren't foreign, yet foreign at the same time, so perhaps that's why Barbarians really are called Barbarians

the saint also acquired human (Roman) tongue to preached to the civilized and martyred, to make the saint dog-headed might've been used to emphasize how foreign he was and the significance of him acquiring he language used by the civilized, since it did make everyone to contemplate God's majesty

Sancte Christoforus, ora pro nobis

[soulrestinginstpetersburg]

Icons made by nuns from monastery Gradac, Serbia

[vintage-russia]

[religious-extremist]

[orthodoxangelos]

Orthodox churches ☦︎

[esoteric-ism]

new icon corner just dropped

[iconianin]

Icon of St. Spyridon in a leather case. Wood, acrylic, gold leaf. Work in progress.

[justanorthodoxgirl]

May 5, 2024 is Pascha (Orthodox Easter) this year.

I am already looking forward to it!☦️♥️

[empyrisan]

A quick and new icon of my dragonsona, Empyrisan.

[lionofchaeronea]

Byzantine icon of the Madonna (Theotokos) and Child, of the type known as Hodegetria (Our Lady of the Way): Mary gestures toward the infant Christ, who in turn raises his hand in a sign of blessing. The type originated in a now lost icon from the Monastery of the Panagia Hodegetria in Constantinople that was said to have been painted by St. Luke. This example, by an unknown artist, dates to the 14th century and is in the MUZA, Valletta, Malta.

[drum-cu-naluci]

another day of Bucharest

[soulrestinginstpetersburg]

[vintage-russia]

Group of priests with the Oran icon of the Mother of God,Nizhniy Novgorod (1915)

Photography by Maksim Dmitriyev (1858-1948)

[theophan-o]

@princess-stefan-3cy, specially for you something very personal: it is the icon of Богородиця / Bogurodzica, that really stands above my own bed and listens to my prayers. May She protect you and all of us!

*Her face has been damaged in several places, because the icon is c. 150 years old.

[religious-extremist]

“I do not worship matter; I worship the God of matter, Who became matter for my sake; Who deigned to inhabit matter; Who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.”

+ St. John of Damascus (On the Veneration of Icons)

[grangvr]

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