Sunday, March 1, 2020

Icon "Holy Forties"



Icon "Holy Forties" which means Great Lent" written on Mount Athos (Greece) in 2006.

The icon depicts six weeks of Great Lent in the events celebrated by the Church:

the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the Holy Cross Day, Lazarus Saturday, as well as the honored saints: St. Gregory Palamas (XIV century), St. John of Climacus (VII century) and St. Mary of Egypt (VI century .),
as contributing to the life and teachings of their salvific life, and of all those who listen to the call of the Holy Fast, which leads to the bright day and the feast of Pascha.

The icon was created by monks and iconographers, working in the cell of the Dormition of the Mother of God, near the hermitage of St.Anna,

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