Shroud of Turin Latest News and pictures

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RE: Latest News and pictures on the Shroud of Turin

I like those as well. Discovery and TLC used to have a lot of interesting programs, but now they seem to be focusing more on reality type shows (like that family that has an absurd number of kids) that are not as interesting to me.

 

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RE: Latest News and pictures on the Shroud of Turin

Oh they still have that program running about that family?

Discovery I used to watch the science channel, since they had some forensic programs but we lost the channel here.

Since the channels are part of the UK satellite channels, some I can't get it unless I pay extra for what I already pay.

There is one called Crime and Investigation channel which is also very interesting.

 

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@HeffeD,
'It's one thing to post religious imagery, it's completely another to start calling people who do not believe the same things as you, ignorant or stupid.'
I totally agree in general with this sentence, HeffeD!
Yes I spoke of ignorance of so many people in our neighborhood which each one - especially me, believe me - surely has met in his life .. This hurts me. But I never treated anyone stupid, sorry. But if you understood otherwise, I apologize, yes this was not my intention of course.
And thank you for your comments, I like you. Then answer like this is a good fit? ..

@ Biozfear, for video, have you seen this link is Post number 2:
Shroud of Turin Blog shroudofturin.wordpress.com Video category : http://shroudofturin.wordpress.com/category/video/

- Maybe some videos of this link will please you? ..

Another link: Free Christian Teaching nice site with cool videos here:
NEAR DEATH EXERIENCES : http://www.freechristianteaching.org/modules/tinyd0/index.php?id=53#axzz22Q7ILmZg
The Final Frontier - The Movie : http://www.freechristianteaching.org/modules/tinyd0/index.php?id=3#axzz22Q7ILmZg - and other good movies on freechristianteaching.org ..

 

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Eternal beauty of Christ

Eternal beauty of Christ - fresco 13th century detail, Sopocani Monastery, Serbia - ZYkoz.jpg 650x867 - on orthodoxphotos.com : http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/Icons_and_Frescoes/Frescoes/Sopocani_Monastery/7.shtml Full fresco look Post #52, and Post #62, please ..

Jesus Christ Saviour and Life Giver, 1384 - Museum of Macedonia, Skopje - GQWb7.jpg 691x900 - on pravoslavna-srbija.com forum: http://www.pravoslavna-srbija.com/forum/index.php?topic=1027.0

Christ the Teacher - from the Church of the Mother of God Peribleptos - Monastery of St. Clement - Ohrid, Macedonia 1300 Crop ColSat150Contr+1 - tDoJZ.jpg 730x1000

Christ - Pantocrator, 'Ruler of all', Serbian monastery Hilandar, Mt.Athos, 13th century - 14OLC.jpg 737x973
- on svetosavljemoje.blogspot.fr : http://svetosavljemoje.blogspot.fr/2011_10_01_archive.html
- for better quality image look on flickr, please: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/847280294/sizes/o/in/photostream/
3D look on Hilandar Monastery: on rastko.org.rs : http://www.rastko.org.rs/likovne/hilandar/img/vhosteter-hilandar.html2.jpg

Christ as the Ancient of Days, Gospel book, Byzantine, 1297, tempera on vellum, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge - ColSat130Sh1, kWx1i.jpg 712x1000 - image source: byzantio.tumblr.com : http://byzantio.tumblr.com/image/22437768450
So byzantio.tumblr.com home page for you: http://byzantio.tumblr.com/

 

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Transfiguration of Christ

Transfiguration of Christ Icon St. Catherine's Monastery 12th c. Mashpedia.com Crop Green-8Red-8ColSat126Exp+ PE6kh.jpg 840x915

Transfiguration fresco - Visoki Decani Serbian Orthodox Monastery - Sh50 hr8qR.jpg 890x668 .. I enlarged and sharpened slightly. 'Visoki Decani Monastery is situated in the western part of the UN administered Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia. It was built between 1327 and 1335 by the Serbian medieval king St. Stephen of Decani ..' - kosovo.net : http://www.kosovo.net/
Source of this very nice image: on jaddeyekabir.com blog : http://jaddeyekabir.com/2012/08/06/today-is-the-feast-of-the-transfiguration/
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Latest (good) news about srpskoblago.org website: Today August 6, 2012 14:04 West European (Paris) time, I found the working link on Blago Archives:
Blago Archives srpskoblago.org/Archives : http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/ ..to follow ..

 

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Here you have the Shroud of Turin (I think ..) attached along the bed of King Abgar:

Abgar%20-%20A-484%20-1.jpg - now x9QgG.jpg scaled 500x700 Sh1

Here I cropped the precedent image, the Shroud of Turin (I think ..) attached to bed of King Abgar is shown here:

Abgar%20-%20A-484%20-1.jpg - now NdDDF.jpg cropped 478x581 Sh1

Here the 'detail' of the precedent image, the Shroud of Turin - or the Mandylion of Edessa deployed in its original dimensions?..:

Abgar%20-%20A-484%20-1.jpg - now Yikko.jpg crop 700x355 slightly sharpened ..
Even someone cut the corner to get the relic .. I think ..
Source of this remarkable image (1017x1423) here: on personal.ceu.hu .. abstract: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/05/Nino_Kavtaria/abstract.html by Nino Kavtaria, thank you very much!..
So this beautiful picture came from 'The 11th century illustrations of Mandylion and Abgar's cycle from Georgian Gospel-Book Manuscript A-484 (the co-called Alaverdi Gospel, manuscript made and illustrated at the Georgian scriptorium of Kalipos monastery on the Black Mountain, near Antioch before 1055)'.


Here you have the real (I think) true Very Icon, Holy Napkin, Mandylion of Edessa copy from 16th c.:

Mandylion with the Legend of King Abgar captured in four scenes on the framing banner - 16th c., Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia - ColSat132Sh2Green-2Blue+3 0TBcx.jpg scaled 880x546
Image (600x372) source: on sng.sk : http://www.sng.sk/en/uvod/vysunute-pracoviska/zvolen/stale-expozicie/ikony-na-slovensku

So help me make the choice .. where is The truth? the Whole Truth .. visible proofs here

Mandylion of Edessa postage stamp:

- 1TFZ1.jpg 350x285

Well, see you later, sorry ..

EDIT:
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I am free to think, to question, to seek and to explore the universe God made and to find the truth of things and the inexhaustible mystery of things. I can live and move and have my being in a relationship that God has joined and no one can tear asunder: the marriage of faith and reason, biology and theology, heaven and earth, at once the mathematically measurable and the mysterious. 



“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and science... It is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute a truly religious attitude.” 

- Albert Einstein'
- on missionmoment.blogspot.fr : Why I Love Being a Catholic Teacher : http://missionmoment.blogspot.fr/2012/01/why-i-love-being-catholic-teacher.html

 

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Yes, Georgian manuscripts, Georgian icons .. - look too on Post #27 about Ancha Holy Icon, Anchiskhati, please ..

Oh, those Georgians! .. So a few pics of Georgians, you may encounter only in Georgia .. No fuss, no hassle and no questions asked. Satisfaction Guaranteed! .. you can see the pictures below .. feasts in Georgia today!..:

Above: Niko Pirosmani - Barrel Organist - State Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi - oT06A.jpg, then Niko Pirosmani - Cook - D7bCt.jpg, and Niko Pirosmani - Gate Keeper - Y8msD.jpg

Niko Pirosmani - Feast with Barrel Organist Datico 1906 - UyYLV.jpg

Niko Pirosmani - Grape Harvest Feast - zzQmr.jpg

Niko Pirosmani - The Feast of Five Princes 1906 - Dye1J.jpg

Niko Pirosmani - Kakhetia Sagas Alazan Valley - Detail - G7ZkF.jpg

That's how they treat their guests! All pics on oceansbridge.com : http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/page?xPage=sectionlist.html&xSec=4152

 

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Here you have Alaverdi Four Gospels A-484 cover, 1054, I improved (picture only, no Gospels ..):

Alaverdi Four Gospels A-484 cover, 1054 - GJ38p.jpg 700x830 NORMColSat150
With image of Christ - Holy Mandylion of Edessa picture I think. Madlob Georgia!.. (Thank you in Georgian)
Image source: on unesco-ci.org/photos : http://www.unesco-ci.org/photos/showphoto.php/photo/6092/title/alaverdi-four-gospels/cat/1019

Image of Christ crop from the Alaverdi Four Gospels A-484 cover, 1054, added Blue-3Contr+1Exp+Sh1, i9Rna.jpg crop 465x500
Some Mandylion of Edessa icons, that I posted (look on Post #33 the first three pictures and not forget the Holy Face of Laon Slavic, also the picture on Post #35, Post #52 .. please), are very similar .. So this is the image - key for many other Mandylion of Edessa images, the most beautiful of all similar, I see.
Right: Christ - in Gelati Gospels NormSh1ColSat150 - nv8k8.jpg crop 400x475 too picture - key for Mandylion of Edessa images.
Source image for picture of Christ in Gelati Gospels on the right: Georgia Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts
1.G277.2 Christ, Virgin Mary and John Baptist: on ica.princeton.edu : http://ica.princeton.edu/millet/main.php?country=Georgia&site=284&view=site&page=1

'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut who shuts and no one opens.' (Revelation 3:7).
Or:
7. Write this to the angel of the Church in Philadelphia, "Thus says he who is holy and true, who holds the key of David; if he opens, nobody shuts and if he shuts nobody opens.
Leia mais em: http://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/21/73/3.php#ixzz23JcZLawI

- yes, I see the key of David - Christ - on Alaverdi Four Gospels cover ..

 

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ICONS, MOSAICS, FRESCOES websites I found:

Byzantine Icons - Medieval Byzantine Icons, Frescoes & Mosaics
Also includes Coptic Icons, and Exhibitions & Collections : on iconsexplained.com : http://www.iconsexplained.com/
Byzantine icons Holy Savior - The icon of Christ Acheiropoietos on iconsexplained.com : http://www.iconsexplained.com/iec/iec_icon_of_christ_not_by_hand.htm

Ancient Mosaics : on classicalmosaics.com : http://www.classicalmosaics.com/photo_album.htm

Category: interior - frescoes : on orthphoto.net : http://www.orthphoto.net/gallery.php?mode=1&kat=22&id_jezyk=1
Category: interior - icons: too on orthphoto.net : http://www.orthphoto.net/gallery.php?mode=1&kat=21&id_jezyk=1
.. and all categories: http://www.orthphoto.net/categories.php?id_jezyk=1 - and use too, why not: country search ..

Byzantine mosaics - Mozaiki bizantyjskie - obta - Picasa Albums Web: https://picasaweb.google.com/obta.cs/MozaikiBizantyjskie# - Obta Photos!..
Early Byzantine Painting - Malarstwo wczesnobizantyjskie - obta - Picasa Albums Web: https://picasaweb.google.com/obta.cs/MalarstwoWczesnobizantyjskie#
Byzantine monumental painting 843-1204 - Bizantyńskie malarstwo monumentalne 843-1204 - obta - Picasa Albums Web: https://picasaweb.google.com/obta.cs/BizantynskieMalarstwoMonumentalne8431204#
Byzantine monumental painting thirteenth to fifteenth centuries - Bizantyjskie malarstwo monumentalne XIII-XV w. - obta - Picasa Albums Web: https://picasaweb.google.com/obta.cs/BizantyjskieMalarstwoMonumentalneXIIIXVW#

Christ Subject Index Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art : http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_ficr.htm
Search for: Christ edessa mandylion : metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections : http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?ft=Christ edessa mandylion

Paracletos Greek Orthodox Monastery - Icon Gallery: http://www.greekorthodoxmonastery.org/MainPages/IconGallery/
Icons Album on Flickr - by jimforest: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/741533/

orthodoxphotos.com/Icons_and_Frescoes/Icons/Jesus Christ : http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/Icons_and_Frescoes/Icons/Jesus_Christ/
orthodoxphotos.com/Icons_and_Frescoes/Frescoes : http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/Icons_and_Frescoes/Frescoes/

ORTHODOXY ICONS : http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/
ART CYCLOPEDIA : http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Orthodox icons (Georgian website) - in Google English: http://translate.googleusercontent....tl=en&u=http://www.oldorthodox.ge/xatebi.html
Icons of the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary, Theotokos, Mother of God : http://www.reu.org/public/iconholy/theotok/theot.htm
Daniel Mitsui webblog: http://www.danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/
St.Catherine Monastery (Sinai) (117 icons) nevsepic.com.ua : http://nevsepic.com.ua/religiya/page,1,2991-monastyr-sv-ekateriny-sinay-117-ikon.html
Pravoslavna Srbija forum - icons: http://www.pravoslavna-srbija.com/forum/index.php?topic=1027.0
Gallery Christian Art icon-art.info : http://www.icon-art.info/gallery.php?lng=en

INDEX: lib.pstgu.ru/icons/index.php : http://translate.google.bs/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://lib.pstgu.ru/icons/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&sectionid=1&ind=1&indword=%D0%95%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%82&pole=ik_fr_sh_mesto_sozd&id=46&Itemid=48&prev=/search?q=http://lib.pstgu.ru/icons/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Dcategory%26layout%3Dblog%26sectionid%3D1%26ind%3D1%26indword%3D%25D0%2595%25D0%25B3%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BF%25D0%25B5%25D1%2582%26pole%3Dik_fr_sh_mesto_sozd%26id%3D46%26Itemid%3D48&hl=en&biw=1198&bih=884&prmd=imvns&sa=X&ei=BnM-UPP4HciJhQfdpIHgAg&ved=0CCAQ7gEwAA

For other new links - look in the similar post on page 4, Post #73, please.

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PS. Please review the preceding posts, because I have done a lot of additions (text and images) .. Thank You!..

 

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Shroud of Turin Latest News and pictures - Prorootect topic for you here:

The lion of the tribe of Judah is a Messianic title.

Christ is from the tribe of Judah (Hebrews 7:14, Matthew 1:2), He was born in a royal family "The House of David" of the Tribe of Judah.
Jesus Christ is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah:
Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Shoot of David, has conquered; he will open the book of the seven seals." (Revelation 5:5).
Leia mais em: http://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/21/73/5.php#ixzz23LUdL3Qp

The lion is the symbol of the might, royalty, resurrection of Christ .. Lion represents Jesus Christ - the royal Shoot of David - which is risen from death.

Jesus Christ symbolizes the four living creatures: He suffered as a man, like the sacrificial ox was killed, like a lion conquered death, like an eagle flew up to heaven.

Psalms, 89:19: Our king is in the hands of the Lord; the God of Israel is our shield.
Leia mais em: http://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/21/21/89.php#ixzz23LzWgZwH
The Lord is my strength, my shield. My heart was sure of him, I have been helped and my heart exults, with my song I give him thanks. - Psalms, 28:7.
Every word of God is true, he is a shield in whom man can find refuge. - Proverbs, 30:5.
O Israel, trust in the Lord; he is your help and your shield! - Psalms, 115:9.
Search for 'shield': Busca Biblica: Encontrados 100 registros para: shield : http://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/busca/21/1/shield

I see the Christ's face on this lion's face on the shield (scutum) from Dura-Europos (in Syria), for me very similar to the Christ's face of the fresco in the Catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Via Labicana, Rome - look Post #19 (Page 2), please.
So judge for yourself, look at this nice image of a lion painted on a ancient Roman shield excavated by archaeologists, I enhanced:

Lion of Judah on Dura-Europos shield NormSh1 TrKTZ.jpg crop 890x645
- on art-unwashed.blogspot.fr : http://art-unwashed.blogspot.fr/2011/09/earliest-known-images-of-christ.html - thank you very much Laura Gilbert for this nice picture!..
About Dura-Europos excavations read on Observer.com : http://observer.com/2011/09/earliest-known-images-of-christ-on-display-at-nyu/
On this shield read on isaw.nyu.edu : http://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/edge-of-empires/highlights/shield
The full shield picture: look on mariamilani.com : http://www.mariamilani.com/ancient_rome/roman_shields.htm

I think that the legionnaire owner of this shield was perhaps a Christian ..

Here you have the upper part of this beautiful ancient Roman shield from Dura-Europos, I cropped and improved:

Eagle and angels on Dura-Europos shield NormSh2 ZPVrX.jpg crop 890x464
- on history-of-macedonia.com : http://history-of-macedonia.com/201...e-intersection-of-empires-for-five-centuries/

I think that the angels - are the angels (yeah ..), proving the religious theme of this shield .. but eagle - maybe it symbolizes Christ itself, which like an eagle flew up to heaven ..
Yes, I do not have the knowledge of archeologists, so my explanation may seem to them not very professional ..

Look at this ancient Ethiopian symbol for Jesus Christ the Roaring Lion of Judah:

An ancient Ethiopian symbol for Jesus Christ the Roaring Lion of Judah. In paintings of battles, Ethiopian royalty are shown wearing lion-fur capes. NormContr+2Green-5ColSat150Sh1 jT3ks.jpg crop 500x500
Right: Aslan The lion of NARNIA xqqT6.jpg 390x366 enh. - the use in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia of a lion named Aslan is known to represent Jesus Christ ..

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.. so as my defense, I take the helmet of salvation ..
Ephesians 6:17: Finally, use the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, that is, the Word of God.
Leia mais em: http://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/21/56/6.php#ixzz23LwGHQ2Q

Yaroslav II helmet NormColSat150 WIE7D.jpg scaled 490x600
Then right: 'detail' of this helmet: Jesus Christ itself: Jesus Christ on Yaroslav II helmet NormColSat200Green-5Red-3 arclS.jpg crop 400x330 - picture like the Byzantine solidus coins .. or Emesa vase - look on the Post #19 (Page 2), please.

 

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Eternal beauty of Christ - The Christ's Face

Christ's face on Holy Tile - Keramion - Το "άγιον κεραμίδι" - in Panagia of Arakas Monastery on Mt. Troodos, Cyprus - 12 c., December, 1192 - orthphoto.net Green-3ColSat150Contr+1 - jNOjo.jpg scaled 800x474
Image source: orthphoto.net/photo.php on thiv56 user photos page 2: http://www.orthphoto.net/user.php?id=2503&id_jezyk=1&offset=30 - then on : http://www.orthphoto.net/photo.php?id=32322&id_jezyk=1
Another Holy Mandylion - Το άγιον Μανδήλιον - fresco in a byzantine Archangel Michael church at Kato Lefkara - on orthphoto.net - thiv56 user photos: http://www.orthphoto.net/photo.php?id=32873&id_jezyk=1
thiv56 Gallery on orthphoto.net/user.php?id=2503 : http://www.orthphoto.net/user.php?id=2503&id_jezyk=1
Mount Athos photos by thiv56 (thiv_col_Athos) too on orthphoto.net : http://www.orthphoto.net/user.php?id=2521

Holy Mandylion 17 c. Monastery of Dionysiou, Aghion Oros, Athos, Greece NormContr+1Green-5Sh1+100 - 7mg4M.jpg 800x437
- on: Holy Napkin « Blogul lui Vasile Călin Drăgan : http://calindragan.wordpress.com/tag/holy-napkin/

Asinou Panagia Phorbiotissa church, Cyprus - Mandylion fresco NormGreen-8Blue-5ColSat162 - flZ6H.gif 750x486
- on: campus.belmont.edu : Asinou: http://campus.belmont.edu/honors/Cyprus/Asinou.html - thank you petrus.agricola!..
- and: obta Gallery: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bN1QSf1sHy39S0TdzgM9EQ - thank you obta!..
- some informations I found: In the central part of Cyprus, in the mountains of the Troodos range, some of the most important monuments of the history of Byzantine painting have survived. Ten of these churches have so far been granted World Cultural Heritage status by UNESCO. Eg.: The church of Panagia (All-Holy, Our Lady) Phorbiotissa (Phorviotissa, Forviotissa), better known as Panagia of Asinou, near the village Nikitari, Nicosia, was founded in 1099. The murals of the Church of Virgin Mary of Asinou were painted at different historical periods, but the most important murals are those painted first, which, according to the inscription, were made between 1055-1106, and reflect the painting style of Constantinople ..
More on: noctoc-noctoc.blogspot.fr : The Monastery of Panagia Asinou: http://translate.googleusercontent....11/01/monastery-of-virgin-mary-of-asinou.html
NOCTOC home Google English: http://translate.googleusercontent....el&tl=en&u=http://noctoc-noctoc.blogspot.com/
The Church of Our Lady of Asinou: http://cyprus.arounder.com/en/churches/asinou-church/the-church-of-our-lady-of-asinou.html
Asinou Church interior - virtual tour with Arounder.com: http://cyprus.arounder.com/en/churches/asinou-church/asinou-church.html
Asinou Church narthex: http://cyprus.arounder.com/en/churches/asinou-church/asinou-church-narthex.html

Icon with Christ Antiphonetes - the Guarantor - ca. 1350 or later, steatite - wooL7.jpg 450x559
- on: metmuseum.org : http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1979.217
'The icon carries a Greek inscription identifying Christ as Antiphonetes, "the guarantor." A famous icon of Christ was so named because, according to a miracle story, it had been held as loan collateral by a creditor. The Byzantine empress Zoë (r. 1028–50) had coins struck with the Antiphonetes image and kept an icon of the type close at hand. "I myself have often seen her, in moments of great distress, clasp the sacred object in her hands, contemplate it, talk to it as if it were indeed alive, and address it with one sweet term of endearment after another," wrote court historian Michael Psellos (1018–ca. 1081).'

Cu Noi Este Dumnezeu - God is with us - Christ Pantocrator fresco in Sopocani monastery, Serbia - Green-7Blue-3ColSat138Contr+1Exp+Sh1 - TTgfD.jpg 850x577, too on Post #62 on page 7, and Christ's Face detail Post #45 Page 5, please
Image (842x600) link: Page 301 on 'Србија | Serbia - one photo per post' topic on skyscrapercity.com : http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=706754&page=301
Miracle and glory of Sopoćani frescoes : on BLAGO Archives on srpskoblago.org : http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Sopocani/index.html - all frescoes are here: 683 photos ..
Sopocani Monastery : on kosovo.net : http://www.kosovo.net/esopocani.html
Sopoćani Monastery : on panacomp.net : http://www.panacomp.net/tour-packages?mesto=srbija_sopocani
ORTHODOX BIBLE ONLINE: Isaiah: Chapter 8 : http://translate.googleusercontent....//www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=43&cap=8
Christian Community Bible: Isaiah: Chapter 8 : http://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/21/29/8.php

Christ Pantocrator, Cathedral of Cefalù, Palermo, Italy, 1148 NormColSat124Sh1 - gbpjk.jpg 650x486
- on catholiclane.com : Created for Immortality: http://catholiclane.com/created-for-immortality/pantocrator-palermo-2/

Christ Pantocrator - dome Mosaic of St. Sofia Cathedral in KIEV, Ukraine, 11th c. ColSat150Sh1Exp- - YsXak.jpg 727x727

Fresco in Kaiserdom Frankfurt ColSat136Sh1SoftLight1Contr+1Sh1 - mHq4R.jpg scaled 660x523

MYSTRAS (Peloponnese, Greece) ceiling dome fresco cropped NormContr+2ColSat136Blue+3Exp- - TKQOO.jpg 600x600
- on: MYSTRAS – last outpost of Byzantium – churches and frescoes wordscene : wordscene.wordpress.com : http://wordscene.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/mystras-last-outpost-of-byzantium-churches-and-frescoes/

 

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GEORGIA - Christ's Face

The Holy Face, fresco by Master Giorgi, 1184 -1186, Church of the Dormition on the Vardzia monastery, Vardzia, Georgia - CCHY0.jpg scaled 890x890 ColSat140Green-2Contr+2Sh1
- on: Vardzia - Portal: http://expo.khi.fi.it/gallery/georgia/samzche-dschawacheti/vardzia/view?set_language=en
.. and Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_fresco_of_Christ_in_Vardzia,_Georgia.jpg
The Cave City of Vardzia: on kuriositas.com : http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/11/cave-city-of-vardzia.html - the best Vardzia photos ..

Christ Fresco from the Vardzia monastery, Georgia 12 c - on Wikipedia - Sh1ColSat170Contr-1 - YPsuR.jpg scaled 750x812

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Icon of the Saviour, 13th c. Svaneti Museum, Mestia, Georgia - NormGreen-5Contr+1ColSat150Exp+Sh2 - a8zyK.jpg 570x834
- on: photomuseum.org.ge/laboratory : http://www.photomuseum.org.ge/laboratory/photos_en.htm - left margin ..
Then right: Georgian Flag ..

Georgia (country): Wikis: on thefullwiki.org : http://www.thefullwiki.org/Georgia_(country)

 

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SERBIA - Christ's Face on the Gracanica Monastery frescoes

'The Gracanica monastery, near Lipljan in Kosovo, is one of the last monumental foundations of King Milutin Nemanjic. Built on the ruins of the former Church of the Holy Virgin, the monastery, finished in 1321, was dedicated to the Dormition of the Holy Virgin. On the southern wall of the chapel is written the king's charter, including the following words: "I have seen the ruins and the decay of the Holy Virgin's temple of Gracanica, the bishopric of Lipljan, so I have built it from the ground and painted and decorated it both within and without".' ..
- read more on spskoblago.org : http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Gracanica/gracanica_description.html - look on the left side links.

Detail of Fresco showing Christ and St. Peter, from Gracanica Monastery - Jew asking the Christ what to do in order to be saved - on srpskoblago.org - wcLWh.jpg crop 890x700

Said Peter - You are the Son of God, Christ with Apostles - Gracanica Monastery NormColSDat150Contr+1 - KAAFK.jpg crop 890x640

The fresco of the Lord, Prizren 14th century, Gracanica Monastery - WscK5.jpg 544x346

SERBIA Wikis: on thefullwiki.org : http://www.thefullwiki.org/Serbia
Appeal for Assistance to the Serbian Church in Kosovo and Metochia (by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) ): on pravoslavie.ru : http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/52233.htm - An Appeal to the readers of Pravoslavie.ru/Orthodox Christianity, And to all those willing to help the Church in Kosovo and Metochia.
'There is no other land in the world like Kosovo and Metochia, where so many churches and monasteries were built on such a small territory. The very name “Metochia” translates as “Church land”. This is truly an ancient, holy land of the Church. 250,000 Kosovo Serbs were forced to flee their ancestral homeland after 1999.' ..
We shall uphold the candle of Orthodoxy in Kosovo! : on pravoslavie.ru : http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51415.htm

 

[Deleted member 178]

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i dont believe in God or Jesus "miracles" as it is described.

 

[Prorootect]

i dont believe in God or Jesus "miracles" as it is described.

- It's your right, you are free ..

 

[Gnosis]

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I believe that the Divine Creator and Savior laid the foundation of our universe; physics, and so on---Everything that scientists think that they know, and know, is originally from the Divine Creator.

I believe in evolution, but I DO NOT believe humans evolved from hairy knuckle draggers. I believe that most scientists are spot on when it comes to the age of the planet and that most of the first life on earth was during the Cambrian period. I don't believe reptiles became mammals, and so forth. Hundreds of millions of years to us is a split second (actually 0) to our Creator and Savior in Eternity, where Omnipresence, Omnipotence, and Omniciousness dwell as one Godhead.

NONE OF WHAT WE OBSERVE IN THIS DIMENSION/WORLD IS AN ACCIDENT. Even if every living thing originally did come from a single cell, the evolutionary process is not possible without Intelligent Design. When One is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscious, One needs not even 6 seconds to create what we observe, much less 6 days. But for us, or primitive people to fathom it, it took six days.

An Athiest scientist can describe how all of this has been a big accident, but as he explains how the single cells evolved, he or she fail to explain where all the life supporting mechanisms come from originally; such as, water, macro-minerals/micro minerals, protein, fatty acids, amino acids, bacteria, mold, sun, enzymes, vitamins, vegetation, protein etc.
Dont' get me wrong, we have some fabulous scientist out there that are doing a great job unlocking mysteries of Creation, but we also have a few dunderheads.


"Let Us go down there"

The great I AM

 

[Prorootect]

Umbra .. It is your right, you are free .. Your attitude is probably wiser, look how many Christians were killed because of their faith .. This began in the early centuries with Christ tortured to death, continued with the early Christians martyred, and continued for centuries all ages, everywhere, China, Japan, most recently in Armenia, Middle East, everywhere.
Because of their faith.

 

[Deleted member 178]

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What i will say it is just my point of view without offense to any religion:

for me, God(s) are just expression of the human nature when they try to define the undefinable, it is a tool created ages ago to rationalize what people couldn't explain, it serve the individual when he need to rely on something when all goes wrong.

Lack of scientific knowledge leaded people to rely on supernatural forces to explain weird phenomenon, at our actual era, no religion based on a supernatural entity could be ever be created, science take the lead.

Thanks.

 

[Spirit]

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Umbra:One have to not publicly claim that if they are believer or non-believer.In most cases I find the claim is wrong.

Second,there is big difference in supernatural force and God.The people who claim that everything going in wrong in their life because of God is really don't know the meaning of God

Remember:
God is not the merchant where you can make give and take policy


Thanks Prorootect for this wonderful thread

 

[Deleted member 178]

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God(s) as described is the paragon of supernatural force, creating a whole populated universe just by its only will.

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God(s) as described is the paragon of supernatural force, creating a whole populated universe just by its only will.