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Extreme Humility
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Completed: February, 2010
Medium: Acrylic
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Mandylion
Feast Day: August 16
Completed: October, 2009
Mandylion ('napkin' or 'handkerchief') is an icon depicting the face of Christ on a cloth. It is also known as 'The Holy Face' and 'Not made by hands'. According to western tradition, as Christ carried the Cross to Calvary, his image miraculously appeared on a veil used by a woman named Veronica to wipe away his perspiration and blood. The relic, known as the 'Veil of Veronica' (from 'vera ikon', meaning 'true image')was copied countless times before all trace of it was lost. According to Eastern tradition, King Agbar of Edessa, sent a messenger to Christ requesting he travel to Edessa to heal the king of an ailment of the skin. Unable to travel to Edessa because the time was upon him to fulfill his destiny, Christ asked for a cloth and a basin of water. Covering his face with the cloth, he miraculously left his image on the cloth and sent it with the messenger back to Edessa to heal the king. The Mandylion was believed to have been kept at the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople until it was lost in the Crusades in 1204.
I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have
the light of life.” -- John 8:12
Christ the SaviorFeast Day:Completed: February, 2009Medium: Acrylic
Pantokrator ('Ruler of All') icon is one of the most ancient prototypes in iconography and is often cited as proof of the historical authenticity of the Incarnation. The icon depicts the adult Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, holding an open or closed Gospel book in his left. It represents Christ, not as Jesus of Galilee, but as the embodiment of two natures, human and divine, as teacher and redeemer. The domed roof of a Byzantine church represents the vault of heaven, and by the mid tenth century, it became the custom to depict the Pantokrator icon within the dome.
Christ is always depicted in iconography with a cruciform in the halo with the Greek letters on the arms of the cross meaning 'the existing one' or 'he who is'. The Greek IC XC are a contraction representing the first and last letters of Jesus Christ.
“The Kingdom of God is within you.” -- Luke 17:21
“I am with you always” -- Matthew 28:20
