http://www.theconfessors.com/ Orthodox Christian Apollogetics en Serendipity 1.1.2 - http://www.s9y.org/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:25:09 GMT http://www.theconfessors.com/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://www.theconfessors.com/ 100 21 http://www.theconfessors.com/archives/30-A-DISCOURSE-IN-ICONOGRAPHY.html Icons http://www.theconfessors.com/archives/30-A-DISCOURSE-IN-ICONOGRAPHY.html#comments http://www.theconfessors.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=30 0 http://www.theconfessors.com/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=30 nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">by <city w:st="on">Saint John</city> of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">San Francisco</place></city></font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Iconography began on the day our Lord Jesus Christ pressed a cloth to His face and imprinted His divine-human image thereon. According to tradition, Luke the Evangelist painted the image of the Mother of God; and, also according to tradition, there still exist today many Icons which were painted by him. An artist, he painted not only the first Icons of the Mother of God, but also those of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and, possibly, others which have not come down to us.</font></p> <br /><a href="http://www.theconfessors.com/archives/30-A-DISCOURSE-IN-ICONOGRAPHY.html#extended">Continue reading "A DISCOURSE IN ICONOGRAPHY"</a> Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:25:09 -0700 http://www.theconfessors.com/archives/30-guid.html