Comments on: New Cross http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/ Some place between 40 and Death Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-4002 Huw Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:30:11 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-4002 Fr Ernesto - <a href="http://www.cis-elsalvador.org/religious.htm" rel="nofollow">this is close</a> Fr Ernesto - this is close

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3972 Huw Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:48:28 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3972 Fr E - there are no more like this one... Trinity is partnered with a community in El Salvador called <a href="http://www.iisd.org/50comm/commdb/desc/d47.htm" rel="nofollow">Nueva Esperanza</a>. When a team goes down they bring back such things... I'll be happy to keep an eye out for another. Fr E - there are no more like this one… Trinity is partnered with a community in El Salvador called Nueva Esperanza. When a team goes down they bring back such things… I’ll be happy to keep an eye out for another.

]]> By: Fr. Ernesto http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3949 Fr. Ernesto Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:04:50 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3949 Huw, I would like to get a similar cross. Does Trinity have more available? I looked on the web and could not find one. Huw,

I would like to get a similar cross. Does Trinity have more available? I looked on the web and could not find one.

]]> By: Fr. Ernesto http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3948 Fr. Ernesto Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:03:43 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3948 Huw, Huw,

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3815 Huw Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:44:18 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3815 I'm with you (and the priest): incredibly Orthodox. but way more beautiful and, if you will, less stylised. Or rather, stylised in a way I find more attractive. I was watching a recording of HBO's "Rome" this weekend and, at one point, the lead character is missing his wife. He pulls a portrait of her, painted on a tiny block of wood, out of his pocket. It is, of course, an icon - in a style we'd recognise. It drives home the point of icons - as well as the lack-of-reason for their continued development in the East (the west has progressed). I’m with you (and the priest): incredibly Orthodox. but way more beautiful and, if you will, less stylised. Or rather, stylised in a way I find more attractive.

I was watching a recording of HBO’s “Rome” this weekend and, at one point, the lead character is missing his wife. He pulls a portrait of her, painted on a tiny block of wood, out of his pocket. It is, of course, an icon - in a style we’d recognise. It drives home the point of icons - as well as the lack-of-reason for their continued development in the East (the west has progressed).

]]> By: Chris Jones http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3792 Chris Jones Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:17:58 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3792 Another thing about that icon: We bought it while I was still Orthodox. My priest examined it carefully, pronounced it theologically sound from and Orthodox point of view, and gave it his blessing. So you might call it a Latin-American-Rite Orthodox icon. Another thing about that icon:

We bought it while I was still Orthodox. My priest examined it carefully, pronounced it theologically sound from and Orthodox point of view, and gave it his blessing. So you might call it a Latin-American-Rite Orthodox icon.

]]> By: Chris Jones http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3791 Chris Jones Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:15:27 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3791 Huw, Yet another thing you and I have in common (in addition to the Welsh ancestry and being ex-Orthodox): I have the same icon on my wall and say my morning prayers before it. I can't tell from your photograph whether it is the same artist or simply painted according to the same pattern. But it is very, very similar. Huw,

Yet another thing you and I have in common (in addition to the Welsh ancestry and being ex-Orthodox): I have the same icon on my wall and say my morning prayers before it.

I can’t tell from your photograph whether it is the same artist or simply painted according to the same pattern. But it is very, very similar.

]]> By: michael http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3780 michael Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:46:10 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/06/01/new-cross/#comment-3780 That reminds me of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, which has this long outdoor gallery of Madonna and Child pieces from dozens of countries. Pretty much all of the Latin American ones look like that, with the bright colors and native-ish motifs. I think Dan/Mobius has pictures of a bunch of them in his Flickr if you haven't seen 'em. That reminds me of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, which has this long outdoor gallery of Madonna and Child pieces from dozens of countries. Pretty much all of the Latin American ones look like that, with the bright colors and native-ish motifs. I think Dan/Mobius has pictures of a bunch of them in his Flickr if you haven’t seen ‘em.

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