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Fr. Jurewicz is held to be one of the most renowned icon painters in North America today, [2] and has painted about a dozen Eastern Orthodox churches across North America.He was a student of the late Archimandrite Cyprian, founder of the Russian school of iconography outside of Russia.
The Church Father Jerome records in a letter dated to the year 395 AD that "Bethlehem... belonging now to us... was overshadowed by a grove of Tammuz, that is to say, Adonis, and in the cave where once the infant Christ cried, the lover of Venus was lamented." [157] This same cave later became the site of the Church of the Nativity. [157]
Salvator Mundi, Latin for Saviour of the World, is a subject in iconography depicting Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding an orb (frequently surmounted by a cross), known as a globus cruciger. The latter symbolizes the Earth, and the whole composition has strong eschatological undertones.
[94] The Head of Christ is venerated in the Coptic Orthodox Church, [95] after twelve-year-old Isaac Ayoub, who diagnosed with cancer, saw the eyes of Jesus in the painting shedding tears; Fr. Ishaq Soliman of St. Mark's Coptic Church in Houston, on the same day, "testified to the miracles" and on the next day, "Dr. Atef Rizkalla, the family ...
The mandorla represents the "luminuous cloud" and is another symbol of the Light. The luminous cloud, a sign of the Holy Spirit came down on the mountain at the time of the Transfiguration and also covered Christ. [12] The Byzantine iconography of the Transfiguration emphasized light and the manifestation of the glory of God.
The Saviour (Spanish - El Salvador) is a 1608–1614 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. It shows Christ as the saviour of the world, represented by the globe beneath his left hand. It draws on the traditions of Byzantine art whilst also incorporating elements of Counter-Reformation painting.
The cross laid over the globus represents Christ's dominion over the world, literally held in the hand of a worthy earthly ruler. In the iconography of Western art , when Christ himself holds the globe, he is called Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Saviour of the World').
Temple San Ignacio de Loyola is a Catholic church building that is in El Paso, Texas. The current church was designed and executed from 1913 to 1922 by Gustavus A. Trost, of the Trost & Trost architectural and engineering company. The building is still in use, as of late 2023, and is part of the Diocese of El Paso.