In celebration of the Advent season, a handpainted icon of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child (by iconographer Rosen Nikolov RIP)
  • 5 points Senior-Ad-402

    Stunning ❤️🙏

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  • 4 points catsec36

    Absolutely beautiful. The icons of the Theotokos are always incredible.

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    0 points TikhonSemenkin

    Made up

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    1 points catsec36

    And why are you here?

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    1 points TikhonSemenkin

    In this community? I am a Christian

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  • 1 points Puzzleheaded_Pay1152

    Love it

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  • -1 points TikhonSemenkin

    Do you like living in beautiful lies? Orthodoxy is definitely for you. As an ex-Orthodox apologist I recommend you to stay with truth

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    2 points Chanchi91

    Agree, definetly Catholicism is the truth, but byzantine icons are awesome

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    0 points TikhonSemenkin

    What Catholicism exactly? and how can we verify your definition of what Catholic religious tradition is, is objective?

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    2 points Chanchi91

    Because Jesus founded the Catholic Church duh

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    1 points catsec36

    That’s debatable, but we’re so close to communion again (god willing), so it’s not even worth the debate. At least we can agree that this prideful guy trying to argue with everyone probably hasn’t even read scripture.

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    1 points Chanchi91

    If you're talking about the Orthodox, well yeah obviously Jesus also founded the Orthodox, there is a reason that we don't call them heretics, just schismatics.

    But yeah, God willing we'll be One once again.

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    0 points TikhonSemenkin

    Catholic Church is not Catholicism

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    2 points Chanchi91

    Tell me again who is the guy named Rock that Jesus said would be the rock upon His Church would be founded?

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    1 points TikhonSemenkin

    Fanatic what are you talking about? Nationalist?

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    1 points Chanchi91

    What?

    It's literally Peter dude hahaha

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    1 points TikhonSemenkin

    Cool down, no one is arguing with you on any topics except for the initial one.

    My question is: Are you a follower of any type of Nationalism?

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    1 points Chanchi91

    I'm not a very Nationalistic person tbh. But again what does this have to do with the Catholic Church?

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    2 points ThinWhiteDuke00

    Eastern Catholicism has the same iconography.

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    1 points TikhonSemenkin

    This is a Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox artist as I understand https://icons-bg.com/hudozhnik-na-risuvani-ikoni/rosen/

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    2 points ThinWhiteDuke00

    My point is that Eastern Catholics usually get their icons from orthodox sources.

    I know who made this given I own it lol.

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    1 points Chanchi91

    I was actually very surprised when I went to Rome and saw so many churches having old bizantine style icons.

    Also in the Church of the Holy Stairs I literally bought a pantocrator icon, literally imported from Greece lol

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    2 points ThinWhiteDuke00

    Rome has the oldest Marian icons in the world.

    Salus Populi Romani.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salus_Populi_Romani

    Maria Advocata.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Advocata_(Madonna_del_Rosario)

    Mostly due to the fact that unlike the Byzantines, we never had a iconoclast period where ancient Greek icons where destroyed.. Pope Gregory III was threatened with invasion and arrest by Emperor Leo III for his opposition to the mass cultural destruction.

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