https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7571 … e-1025-ce/ The city of Edessa has a long history as an important city. Edessa (/ɪˈdɛsə/; Ancient Greek: Ἔδεσσα, romanized: Édessa) was an ancient city (polis) in Upper Mesopotamia, founded during the Hellenistic period by King Seleucus I Nicator (r. 305–281 BC), founder of the Seleucid Empire. It later became capital of the Kingdom of …
The “Scenes from the Passion of Christ” is an ivory panel roughly 1 foot by 5 inches dated to the early 12th century that originated most likely in Constantinople. The plaque is the biggest ivory panel of the Middle Byzantine period recorded, and is comparable in size to conuslar diptychs. Relief in ivory with traces …
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … ar_(2).JPG The Verdun altarpiece at Klosterneuburg was created by Nicholas of Verdun in 1181. The Verdun Altar is located at the Klosterneuburg Monastery in Austria.[4] It was made in c.1181 and it is named after Nicholas of Verdun. Its composition contains detailed decorative panels which depict biblical scenes. The work is divided into …
https://orthodoxwiki.org/File:Not_made_by_hands.jpg A very common motif during the Byantine era is the Acheiropoieta (“made without hand”). Many things fall under this motif: Mandylion, Image of Edessa, Veil of Veronica, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the Manoppello Image. Acheiropoieta (Medieval Greek: αχειροποίητα, “made without hand”; singular acheiropoieton) — also called icons made without hands (and variants) — …
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … ntines.jpg Prior to the TS in Constantinople, the shroud was in Edessa. The image was moved from Edessa to Constantinople after the successful wars that the Byzantine Empire had waged in the eastern part of Asia Minor from the 920s. At the head of the mostly victorious marches was John Kourkouas, a prominent …
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … schild.jpg When we look back in history, many of the accounts, particularly in the Middle Ages, are considered legends. The early usage of the word legend simply meant a narrative of an event. Over time, it took on the idea of being a spurious narrative. Legend is a loanword from Old French that …
When we think of homiletics or homily, we think of a pastor preaching to the congregation while the audience quietly sits there. It is only a one-way interaction between the preacher and the masses. But, is that what homiletics should be? Homiletics is widely considered the art and practice of preaching. “Homiletics means the art …
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Are you able to keep all the commandments? The Bible commands us to keep all the commandments. [Deut 6:1-2 KJV] 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 …
[Mat 28:17 KJV] 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. Actually, the word “some” is not found in the Greek. A more literal reading of the passage is the disciples doubted. (NABRE) When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. It’s OK to doubt. We’re talking about the 11 …