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The packet contains teaching material to help explore the Eastern Orthodox Holy Week. It can be combined with our Holy Week Craft Kit or with our Holy Week project suggestions, as well as with our Holy Week digital activities. Please scroll down for an overview of the included printable resources.
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, [1] is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. [2] [3] Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") Eastern Orthodox Church is organised into ...
Mar 1, 1987 · Holy Icons of the Orthodox Church: An Introduction. “Icon” is the Greek word for “image.”. Orthodox icons contain information that is presented in a concentrated visual format using formal techniques and specific symbolism to direct the hearts and minds of individuals toward God. They are not merely decorative, but sacred objects ...
- History
- Palaiologos Family
- Orthodox Provenance of The Double-Headed Eagle
- Emblem of Church of Constantinople and Mount Athos
- Emblem of Russian Empire and Modern Russia
- Diffusion from Byzantium to Various Usages
- Further Reading
- External Links
Emperor Isaacius Comnenus (11th century AD), the first ruling member of the Comnenus dynasty, was the first Emperor who adopted the two headed eagle as the symbol of the Empire.
The yellow with a black crowned double-headed eagleflag, was the symbol of the Paleologues, the last Greek-speaking "Roman" (i.e. Byzantine) dynasty to rule from Constantinople. Emperor Michael VIII Paliologos recaptured Constantinople from the Crusaders in 1261, from a state based in Asia Minor; the double-headed eagle symbolized the dynasty's int...
The following gallery shows heraldic usages of the double-headed eagle in the history of the Orthodox Church, including: 1. its use beginning in the theocratic Byzantine Empire 2. its use by Orthodox churches today, and 3. modern secular usages by some Orthodox nations. 1. The double-headed eagle, the most recognized emblem of the Byzantine Empire,...
The modern double-headed eagle flag for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and of Mount Athos, features the eagle with a cross in the right claw symbolizing spiritual authority, and an orb in the left symbolizing secular authority. Above the eagle, is a crown, and the background colour of the flag is yellow or gold. (see image above). Th...
The two major symbolic elements of Russian state and church symbols (the two-headed eagle and St. George slaying the dragon) predate Peter the Great. The double-headed eagle was adopted by Ivan III after his marriage with the Byzantine princess Sophia Paleologo, whose uncle Constantine was the last Byzantine Emperor. After the Fall of Constantinopl...
The two-headed Byzantine Eagle is currently the emblem on the Flags of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and of Mount Athos, as well as those of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro. It has also become the Coat of Arms of modern States including Serbia, Russia, Albania, and most recently Montenegro. The historic spread of its use occurred because the na...
Alexander Billinis. The Eagle Has Two Faces: Journeys Through Byzantine Europe.AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011. 160 pp. ISBN 9781456778705
Animal Lover World. Birds Guide: Double-Headed Eagle.Military Photos. Byzantine Army and Navy Ranks.International Encyclopedia of Uniform Insignia. Uniform Insignia Forum: Greek Armed Forces History.Icons are the most widely recognized characteristic of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Icons are found in all church buildings as well as in the homes of believers. The Greek word eikonographia means "image writing". So, icons are said to be written rather than painted. Icons are based on actual historical images of sacred persons which accounts ...
The expansive subject surrounding these terms rises out of a peculiar aspect of the Eastern Orthodox ethos—and Byzantine iconography can only be properly and authentically understood within the context of that ethos and of the civilization that gave it birth and its unique "identity"—, namely, that no element of Orthodoxy, even one limited ...
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In the Eastern Orthodox tradition icons are treated with special veneration, however, such an attitude is actually directed to who is represented. Icons are not mere ‘religious pictures’ or portraits/genre scenes but symbols of a higher reality, and because of this they cannot be painted in a realistic style.
