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Rowan
3rd August 2007, 04:48 PM
http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/kursk.htm

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r128/theotokos_7/Icons/kursk_koren1.jpg



Amazing! :)
Torah613
3rd August 2007, 06:06 PM
I've venerated the original twice. Used to be a ROCOR catechumen.
WarriorAngel
3rd August 2007, 07:26 PM
I think it is very lovely.
I am confused as to why there are 10 Apostles[?] with her?
Dorothea
4th August 2007, 12:19 AM
Isn't it 9 Apostles? Isn't that Christ right above her?
nikostheater
4th August 2007, 05:36 PM
They are Old Testament Prophets.
WarriorAngel
7th August 2007, 07:26 PM
O ok...!
Thanks. :hug:

I need better reading glasses then. lol
I should have known by the 'scrolls'

SO I would love to see more icons...very ancient ones..

ANYONE have any?? :)
SeraphimSarov
7th August 2007, 08:19 PM
http://www.light-n-life.com/images/products/SI00201.jpg

I apologize for the small size. This Christ Pantokrator icon dates back to the sixth century, located at St. Katherine's Monastery at the base of Mt. Sinai.

That's kind of an obvious one though. :P More takers?
RobNJ
7th August 2007, 09:05 PM
http://www.light-n-life.com/images/products/SI00201.jpg

I apologize for the small size. This Christ Pantokrator icon dates back to the sixth century, located at St. Katherine's Monastery at the base of Mt. Sinai.

That's kind of an obvious one though. :P More takers?

Where HAVE I seen that one, before? ;)
WarriorAngel
7th August 2007, 09:16 PM
I love it!


Seen it somewhere before too.:D lol
Ahem Rob...any clues??
SeraphimSarov
7th August 2007, 09:19 PM
Where HAVE I seen that one, before? ;)

I dunno man... :P
RobNJ
7th August 2007, 09:27 PM
I dunno man... :P

well, among other places.....


http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a74/NJRob/IconCorner6_10A.jpg
SeraphimSarov
7th August 2007, 09:31 PM
Ah ha, great success!

Do I spot St. John Maximovitch in there? :) And I have that same Russian cross icon... absolutely beautiful.
Secundulus
7th August 2007, 10:10 PM
St. George, Patron Saint of England.

http://all-photo.ru/icon/photos/8224-0.jpg

Also, here is a whole bunch more:
http://all-photo.ru/icon/index.en.html
Rowan
7th August 2007, 10:39 PM
Of course we have more WarriorAngel :)

Here's one of my patron:

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r128/theotokos_7/Icons/st-2.jpg

St. Mary of Egypt (http://www.abbamoses.com/stmarylife.html)
SeraphimSarov
7th August 2007, 10:43 PM
Of course we have more WarriorAngel :)


Do you have a larger version of the one depicted in your avatar?
Rowan
7th August 2007, 10:44 PM
Nah, I couldn't find one.
Rowan
7th August 2007, 10:46 PM
St. George, Patron Saint of England.

http://all-photo.ru/icon/photos/8224-0.jpg

Also, here is a whole bunch more:
http://all-photo.ru/icon/index.en.html

St. George rocks :)
WarriorAngel
8th August 2007, 06:42 PM
I cant think today...
But who is the Saint that was a prince, turned Bishop..?

O maybe it is St George...
I just am trying to think too hard. :D lol
Secundulus
8th August 2007, 07:25 PM
St. George was not a prince. He was a Roman Tribune.

From Wikopedia

George was born to a Christian family during the late 3rd century. His father was from Cappadocia and served as an officer of the Roman army. His mother was from Lydda, Iudaea (now Lod, Israel). She returned to her native city as a widow along with her young son, where she provided him with an education.

The youth followed his father's example by joining the army soon after coming of age. He proved to be a good soldier and consequently rose through the military ranks of the time. By his late twenties he had gained the title of Tribunus (Tribune) and then Comes (Count), at which time George was stationed in Nicomedia as a member of the personal guard attached to Roman Emperor Diocletian.

According to the hagiography, in 303 Diocletian issued an edict authorizing the systematic persecution of Christians across the Empire. The emperor Galerius was supposedly responsible for this decision and would continue the persecution during his own reign (305–311). George was ordered to participate in the persecution but instead confessed to being a Christian himself and criticized the imperial decision. An enraged Diocletian ordered his torture and execution.

After various tortures, including laceration on a wheel of swords, George was executed by decapitation before Nicomedia's defensive wall on April 23, 303. A witness of his suffering convinced Empress Alexandra and Athanasius, a pagan priest, to become Christians as well, and so they joined George in martyrdom. His body was returned to Lydda for burial, where Christians soon came to honour him as a martyr.
Mary of Bethany
8th August 2007, 10:18 PM
I cant think today...
But who is the Saint that was a prince, turned Bishop..?

O maybe it is St George...
I just am trying to think too hard. :D lol

Are you thinking of St. Sava of Serbia (my parish's patron :) )? Oh, wait - he was after the schism so he may not be recognized in the RCC. I'm sure there are others who were princes.


Mary
xristos.anesti
9th August 2007, 09:43 AM
Are you thinking of St. Sava of Serbia (my parish's patron :) )? Oh, wait - he was after the schism so he may not be recognized in the RCC. I'm sure there are others who were princes.


Mary

St. Sava is recognised by the RCC - even though he is an after-schism Saint.

And yes, he was a prince who ran away and became a monk and then first archepiskope of Serbia.

Here is his Житије (http://www.kosovo.net/sava.html) (description of a life of a Saint).