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According to the New Testament, Mary (Miriam: Hebrew: מרים‎; c. 18 BC – c. 43 AD), also known as St Mary the Virgin, the Blessed Virgin Mary,[1] Saint Mary, Mary the Mother of God,[1] or the Virgin Mary—amongst other titles, styles and honorifics—was a Galilean Jewish[2] woman of Nazareth and the mother of Jesus.[Mt 1:16,18-25][Lk 1:26-56][2:1-7]

The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament describe Mary as a virgin (Greek: παρθένος, parthénos)[3][4] and Christians believe that she conceived her son while a virgin by the Holy Spirit. This took place when she was already betrothed to Joseph and was awaiting the concluding rite of marriage, the formal home-taking ceremony.[5] She married Joseph and accompanied him to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.[6] According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary could have been betrothed at about 12,[7] however, there is no direct evidence of Mary's age at betrothal or in pregnancy. The term "betrothal" is an awkward translation of kiddushin; according to the Jewish law those called "betrothed" were actually husband and wife.[8][9][10]

The Gospel of Luke begins its account of Mary's life with the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced her divine selection to be the mother of Jesus. According to gospel accounts, Mary was present at the Crucifixion of Jesus and is depicted as a member of the early Christian community in Jerusalem. According to Apocryphal writings, at some time soon after her death, her incorrupt body was assumed directly into Heaven, to be reunited with her soul, and the apostles thereupon found the tomb empty; this is known in Christian teaching as the Assumption.[11][12]

Mary has been venerated since Early Christianity,[13][14] and is considered by millions to be the most meritorious saint of the religion. The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Churches believe that Mary, as Mother of Jesus, is the Mother of God and the Theotokos, literally "Giver of birth to God". There is significant diversity in the Marian beliefs and devotional practices of major Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church holds distinctive Marian dogmas; namely her status as the mother of God; her Immaculate Conception; her perpetual virginity; and her Assumption into heaven.[15] Many Protestants minimize Mary's role within Christianity, based on the argued brevity of biblical references.[16] Mary (Maryam) also has a revered position in Islam, where a whole chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to her, also describing the birth of Jesus.[17]

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Renaissance painting of the Virgin Mary is one of the most common themes. The profound spiritual meaning of the Virgin Mary who has to make the artists of this period almost no one does not relate. In painting and sculpture of the Virgin is the theme of beauty is that you can meet the canons of Christian doctrine, such as the humanitarian fraternity of Christ can be to maximize the publicity, but also reflects a universal human values, each artist has a mother, every a viewer are precursors of everyone's mind will feel this fact.

In the Virgin Mary here, painting and sculpture became the exploration of human existence. Discussion motherhood, motherhood, etc. express the beauty way. These artists have an irresistible appeal.

European Renaissance Italian first originated in the 14th century. Italy is located in the center of the Mediterranean region, the ancient trading region in the world during the heart's position.

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Early Christian Art

As a visual art paintings and statues in the religious life in the end play what function? This became eight or nine centuries of Christian life of the major issues in the sect inside a heated debate took place. 730 AD, the Eastern Roman emperor Leo III issued a targeted ban on employing the image to the performance of Christ, the Virgin, saints and angels. The ban know 843 years before contact with people Dekor restored and the western art world contact, classical art forms to re-occupy a place in the religious art Activities

AD century to the early fourth century, Christianity in the Roman Empire was banned, and even suffered several brutal crackdown.

AD 64, an inexplicable fire burning up in the city of Rome, throughout the Roman chaos, house wood burning burst of sound and the cries of the people of a hybrid. Roman Emperor Nero blamed the Christians to the blaze. At the moment though it is midnight, he ordered the captured those Christians using them as torches burned alive. Christians in the high-handed policy has been seriously damaged, and the spread of missionary activity and religious culture and art had to go underground

After 300 years after Christian persecution, AD 313, Constantine the Great Spirit to know the value of Christianity, presented the Milan Edict, to legalize Christianity. Shortly thereafter, Christianity was designated as National Pits Rome. At this point in the disintegration of the Roman Empire has eve.

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Orthodox Byzantine Icons

From the viewpoint of traditional Orthodox Church, icons are figurative prayer, but the historical and artistic point of view, the Orthodox iconostasis is the Orthodox faith inherent in combination with ancient Greek art form. This feature from the historical development of Byzantine religious art can be clearly seen.

395 AD, the Roman Empire was divided into east and west, the two parts are independent countries. East Rome came to be known as Byzantium. In certain historical period. Eastern and Western Roman Empire manager different fate.

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Orthodox Church iconostasis of Dekor

Dekor is indivisible and churches. Dekor not primarily works of art, but the prayer thing. Icon is generated in prayer and worship, and also to pray and worship generated. Left the prayer and worship in the background, it can not fully understand the iconostasis. Dekor natural environments in the church and worship. Iconostasis from Orthodox theological viewpoint, museum Dekor has lost its original meaning, is lifeless, like a specimen episode of dried flowers and butterflies
Russia's troubled history, frequent wars chaos, ethnic Russian and a strong will to overcome the enemies again and again.

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Orthodox theology

There are two sources of the Orthodox faith - Sacred Tradition and the Bible. Tradition is a manifestation of God's revelation of Church tradition from generation to generation. Therefore, prior to the biblical Holy Tradition, it is also greater than the Bible, which includes Dekor. Therefore we can say, Dekor also Sacred Tradition - part of church tradition. If the Bible is the revelation expressed in writing and documented in God, then revelation Dekor is the use of line and color expression of God. Or that is reflected in the image of God Dekor Road. Tradition in the Bible the word of God and has been in the lines and colors Dekor

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You can see from Scripture, say the time of creation, the Bible was prohibited for their portrait. Talking about God, the Bible says God is invisible, both public and Moses can not see, only hear their voices. That can not see, of course, draw out, but only recorded words of God, Moses did. But John of Damascus to see in these paintings a hint: it is possible to see the old river, draw incarnate God. He said, you can not see God now so I can not picture, but when you see God like when you can draw, take God's image drawn.

As in the Old Testament God forbid Videos like creatures, only one purpose, which is not allowed voters to replace the worship of idolatry. Because when people worship their idol was dangerous to them as God Worship. Why not worship idols was it? Because after the fall of Adam, the whole human race may become incorruptible, has died, the entire secular world also do so. So these worldly things can not make access to God, only people away from God. So any image creation can not replace that image to speak at Horeb God

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Our Lady of the mysterious wedding

religious icon Mary Joseph is one of many suitors. In order to determine which is the future husband of Mary, we must await the will of God, many suitors put their hands on the altar cane, crutch to see which there is a miracle.

Joseph on crutches on the altar becomes a magical flower, he was elected Mary's husband.
Renaissance great artists Raphael once created this theme for his fame. Micheli If another artist, but also as a theme created a masterpiece. He is one of the most famous artists of that era, mainly active in Milan area, working for Wisconsin sports family, who have been hired as design stained glass cathedral.

Miche Lino stay in Venice in 1410. His painting of this Venetian painting after 20 years of development has importance can not be ignored. Miche Lino renowned in that era, but does not have much left to work. Our Lady of the wedding that he left work.

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Virgin and Child

With the gradual development of humanistic spirit and carry forward, the Virgin Mary has become motherhood, a symbol of love and tolerance. Bible theme works of art, particularly paintings and sculptures, the artist depicts the Virgin Mary holy women, became a symbol of the eternal human motherhood. Thus, the head of the Virgin Mary always shine divine glory, as people admire the spirit and the soul world demand exists.

The earliest Bible implies the existence of the Virgin Mary is Genesis chapter, I'll hate on you and your woman, between your offspring and his descendants, his descendants to Tasui your head, you want to hurt him heel. According to later theological interpretation, which she refers to the Virgin. This laid the status of Mary in the Christian spirit in the field. The prophet Isaiah had said the words:. "Look, there was a virgin to conceive, give his name Emanuel theologians believe that here Virgin refers to Emanuel's mother - the Virgin Maria

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Passion Madonna in the monastery, the posture of Christ with the usual small painting is different. In addition to embrace small painting of the Virgin of Christ, there are two angels, holding the Christ crucified Christ small fly, which foreshadowed Christ and suffering for the salvation of mankind. For the performance of this element, there is some small changes in the attitude of Christ - he is not facing the audience, but hemi the body, looking at the angel's hand cross, his hands firmly grasp the hand of the Virgin

In addition to the main types of these icons of Christ, in commemoration of Christ and the Virgin of the major Orthodox holiday of portraits, but also the image of Christ. Most of these images of Christ in accordance with the prevailing medieval painting, Christ dressed in red - blue robes.

Early Christian paintings, reliefs, sculptures symbolic approach is closely related with the later paintings Dekor. Dekor contemporary researchers Alekseyev said: early Christian symbol painting is an early art and our contemporary paintings Dekor contact links: It is understood that the principles of painting symbolizes the foundation of Christian paintings: should the external form the inner meaning behind the saw, which is later in the inner meaning Dekor painting as image and prototype cognitive things.

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A Desperately Needed Miracle

The documentary shows that while Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez had outlawed the practice of human sacrifice, the Aztecs were witnessing the collapse of their empire, the enslavement of their people by the Spaniards, and catastrophic loss of life due to virulent disease ripping through their population.

“At the time of her apparition, the indigenous people of Mexico were anticipating the end of the world,” Anderson said.

“To understand the impact that Our Lady of Guadalupe has on the native population, you really have to put yourself in the position of these people at the collapse of the Aztec Empire and what their understanding of religion really was,” he explained in the documentary. “We have to remember the horrific face of the Aztec deities that were there to receive the human sacrifices.”

Spanish missionaries also recognized the dire situation in Mexico City. Bishop Juan de Zumarraga was so disgusted with the abuses carried out on the native population by the new Spanish government, that he felt that unless a miracle occurred, Mexico City would be lost. He even went to so far as to order all the priests to abandon the city until the government changed its ways.

Thankfully, a miracle did come by the way of the Virgin Mary appearing to the humble peasant, Juan Diego, telling him to have Bishop Zumarraga build a shrine for her on the top of Tepeyac Hill.

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Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from Rome's decline and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453,^[1] many Eastern Orthodox states in Eastern Europe, as well as to some degree the Muslim states of the eastern Mediterranean, preserved many aspects of the empire's culture and art for centuries afterward.

A number of states contemporary with the Byzantine Empire were culturally influenced by it, without actually being part of it (the "Byzantine commonwealth"). These included Bulgaria, Serbia, and the Rus, as well as some non-Orthodox states like the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Sicily, which had close ties to the Byzantine Empire despite being in other respects part of western European culture. Art produced by Eastern Orthodox Christians living in the Ottoman Empire is often called "post-Byzantine." Certain artistic traditions that originated in the Byzantine Empire, particularly in regard to icon painting and church architecture, are maintained in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox countries to the present day.

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On the synod, Catholic conservatives fear worst is yet to come

It could have been worse. Among the conservative Catholic scribbling class, that’s the consensus on the bishops’ synod that wrapped up its business in Rome last weekend. After all, the Final Report made no explicit mention of a path to communion for the divorced and remarried, much less sanctioning “artificial” contraception or living out of wedlock. Same-sex relationships got a peremptory thumbs down.

But the sequel has them scared. Pope Francis took the tiny opening that last year’s synod gave to annulment reform and pushed through new canon law. Who knows what he’ll do with the openings he’s been given now?

“What would be uncharted territory,” writes the New York Times‘ Ross Douthat, “is if this pope decides to act on his irritation with conservatives and/or his vision of decentralization, and use his post-synodal exhortation to make the crack that liberals see already wider, undeniable, visible to everyone.”

“The Final Report is a tolerable text, especially for something produced by a committee of 270,” writes the Catholic Thing’s Robert Royal. “If it had been passed under the papacy of John Paul II, it would have raised little, if any, alarm. But in a context of mutual suspicion and anger, what is tolerable may become intolerable.”

As is usual at moments of impending institutional change, the casus belli acquires a symbolic importance far beyond its specific effect. That’s the case with communion for the divorced and remarried, which reformers wish to permit by drawing on the patristic principle of economia. Advanced by the fourth-century Cappadocian Fathers Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus, economia constitutes a recognition that living in this world sometime makes it impossible to follow the ideal spiritual path.

Understanding that valid marriages sometimes have to be ended by divorce, Eastern Orthodoxy permits sacramental remarriages; however, these have to be conducted in a less celebratory way than first marriages — indeed, penitentially. Such a violation of the principle of the indissolubility of marriage is considered intolerably lax by Roman Catholic conservatives. But in disdaining this mote in the Orthodox eye, they fail to see the beam in their own.

The Orthodox hew to the ideal of the indissolubility of marriage by requiring widows and widowers to take a penitential path to remarriage. Yes, the death of a spouse is generally unavoidable. Nevertheless, second and third marriages, albeit licit, do violate the principle of sacramental marriage as a one-time thing that effects a permanent change in the person.

By contrast, the indissolubility of marriage for Catholics is just “till death do us part.” Then it can be on to the next marriage, and the next one, so long as the present spouse predeceases us.

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Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,[7][8] observed most commonly on December 25[4][9][10] as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.[2][11][12] A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or Nativity Fast and is prolonged by the Octave of Christmas and further by the season of Christmastide. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations,is celebrated culturally by a large number of non-Christian people,and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season.

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins.[18] Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, an exchange of Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly. In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season and have their own body of traditions and lore.[19] Because gift-giving and many other aspects of the Christmas festival involve heightened economic activity, the holiday has become a significant event and a key sales period for retailers and businesses. The economic impact of Christmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world.

While the month and date of Jesus' birth are unknown, by the early-to-mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25,[20] a date later adopted in the East,[21][22] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which, in the Gregorian calendar, currently corresponds to January 7, the day after the Western Christian Church celebrates the Epiphany. The date of Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine months after the day on which early Christians believed that Jesus was conceived,[23] or with one or more ancient polytheistic festivals that occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Roman winter solstice);[24][25] a further solar connection has been suggested because of a biblical verse[a] identifying Jesus as the "Sun of righteousness".

Christ Art

If Western Christian religious art images tend to only as illustrations of religious texts, or the religious art and secular art of confused, then, the Orthodox iconostasis always linked with the world. In the Orthodox Church, the iconostasis is a certain artistic way to express complex theological organism, like a tree, rooted in the soil of Christian revelation sac, branches painter personal mystical experience and artistic genius. The ancient Russian icon painter often set large theologian and artist in one.

For example Andelielu cloth husband their masterpiece to strict ideological and highly artistic theology together, become speculative color.

Watch Dekor not aesthetic appreciation activities, and the first is a prayer. In this event, the experience of beauty into a perception of God. In this process, the human spirit has been the growth of internal and external human existence becomes smaller. This was decided. Dekor painting do not become "art for art." Art is the handmaiden of theology in the church, but that does not belittle the significance of art, but to make artistic function more clearly, more effective action. The ancient Greeks had already raised the purpose of art is the "purification"