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you and give you peace.
What is an Icon, Meaning, History, and
Iconographers
The word Icon comes from the Greek word eikon
which means image, the same word that describes the creation of
man in God's image and likeness. Icons are Apostolic, and
healing, and even pre-date the written Gospels. The first icon
was made miraculously by Jesus Christ Himself, (made with no hands)
and the next icon was made by the Holy Apostle Luke. Here are
gathered many of the great icon treasures of the world. You will
find icons attributed to St. Luke's own hand. This is great art,
and these are great Christian art treasures, across a spectrum of
centuries and millennium, from the historic and living Church as
it has expressed itself in many cultures, both East and West.
There is a wide variety of icons from different ages, schools,
and iconographers.
If you are an Orthodox Christian,
your Church was founded in 33AD by Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
officially beginning at Pentecost with the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit upon the Apostles. (Acts 2) The Orthodox Church is now
2000 years old, and has maintained an unbroken historical and
doctrinal connection to the earliest Tradition of the
Apostles.
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Created Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Most recent revision Friday, November 14, 2008
Web Master ~Rosebud~
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