Orthodox Church - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:38:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Orthodox Church - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The Mother of God and the Saints: Orthodox Christian Icons at Maryhill Museum of Art https://historylab.es/the-mother-of-god-and-the-saints-orthodox-christian-icons-at-maryhill-museum-of-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-mother-of-god-and-the-saints-orthodox-christian-icons-at-maryhill-museum-of-art Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:20 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-mother-of-god-and-the-saints-orthodox-christian-icons-at-maryhill-museum-of-art/ This online exhibition includes icons with representations of the Mother of God and select Christian saints.

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]]> “Icon” is the Greek word for “image” and Orthodox Christian icons contain information that is presented in a concentrated visual format. Through the use of formal techniques and specific symbolism, they direct the hearts and minds of worshippers toward God. Icons are not merely decorative religious paintings; they are sacred objects that connect people to the figures that they portray. The ancient church affirmed that icons “partake of the nature of the original”. The images facilitate a two-way interaction: when individuals venerate them and use them for prayer, they receive spiritual benefit through the efficacy of the pictured people and events.

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]]> Cyril and Methodius Route https://historylab.es/cyril-and-methodius-route/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyril-and-methodius-route Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/cyril-and-methodius-route/ It presents a set of trails focused on travelling in the footsteps of Saints Cyril and Methodius and their followers (the Seven Saints Apostles).

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]]> It brings together places, heritage sites, cultural institutions and tourist attractions across interconnecting countries of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. The destinations along the route present rich and diverse heritage elements in all its forms: monuments of the sacred cult of the holy brothers, secular manifestations of respect for them, reflections on their work in the modern world, stories and legends, among others.

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]]> Schism of 1054 https://historylab.es/schism-of-1054/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=schism-of-1054 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/schism-of-1054/ Map showing the influences of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches

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]]> East-West Schism, also called Schism of 1054, event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius) and the Western church (led by Pope Leo IX). The mutual excommunications by the pope and the patriarch in 1054 became a watershed in church history. The excommunications were not lifted until 1965, when Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I, following their historic meeting in Jerusalem in 1964, presided over simultaneous ceremonies that revoked the excommunication decrees.

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