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"Theotokos"

"The only name Theotokos, Mother of God, contains the entire mystery of the economy of salvation," says St. John Damascene. The analogy between Eve, Mary and the Church goes back to Irenaeus and since, for the Fathers, Mary is the enemy of the Snake Woman, the Woman clothed in sun, the image of the Wisdom of God. If the Holy Spirit personalizes the holiness of God, the Virgin personalizes the human holiness. Linked in its very being to the Holy Spirit, Mary appears consolation and invigorating. Eve New Life that saves and protects all creation and Corruption therefore figure in the Church in her motherly protection.

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ICON of Pokrova (AGIA SKEP)

Icon Pokrov, 18-19 ° S. , Russia

Since the Council of Ephesus (431) the Church has constantly proclaimed the close relationship between Mary's divine motherhood and her role as mother with the Christians. The theme of Pokrov therefore rests on a long Christian tradition. The veil include a roof across the sky, and safeguarding the meeting. It is the protector maforion which represents the power of protection of the Virgin . It is both symbol and reality.

The gesture of covering his own coat someone was in the East and West, a natural gesture of protection independent of social convention. In Byzantium and Russia expressed by covering the adoption of the adopted his mantle. And when St. Bonaventure defender of Marian devotion, founded in 1270 the brotherhood of Franciscan Friars Minor, he ordered the brothers to represent under the folds of the Virgin's mantle (pallium). Therefore this representation has spread in Western art. Mary is the refuge of all humanity, for which she continues to intercede. Maforion the 10th century Byzantine (1) , could evolve into a large coat solemn. Thus the same idea of protection is expressed by these symbols very similar and profoundly human: SKEP, Pokrov (protective veil) maforion, pallium (Mantle), all make this a reality since most Christian arises from the heart of the baptized.

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(1) The iconography of icon Pokrov began a miracle occurred Constantinople in the tenth century church of Blachernae. Every Friday is held the ritual ceremony during which they lifted the veil covering the statue of the Mother of God. During one of these celebrations, St. Mary Andre lives to prayer extending its cloak over the meeting as a sign of protection of the people and the city against enemy attack. The iconography, which commemorates the miracle started in the 12th century to proliferate in the workshops of Russia. Commemoration of the event is celebrated on October 1 in Russia, Oct. 28 in Greece and is the feast The most important after the Twelve Great Feasts liturgical.

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the Theotokos, ICON OF THE INCARNATION

Icon Pskov, Russia, 16 ° S.
Saint Luke painting the Theotokos

The Orthodox Church never separates Mary, the Immaculate Virgin, her Son Jesus. The icon of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus in her arms is never presented as an icon of the Virgin, but as the Incarnation of the only Son of God is the communion of the divine and the human takes place in Mary.

This communion of the divine and the human also occurs in the Church , instead of God's participation in the construction of a new world which will be completed in the Kingdom. In the same way that Mary has created humanity in his only begotten Son of God, the same way the Church creates the heart of humanity itself, the new humanity of God's son. Thus the Church appears as the Theotokos extended: it is the generator mystical child of God, as Mary was the only Son of physical generator. In the early centuries of the history of the universal Church, the theological issues were initially focused on the person of Christ is also under the doctrine of two natures in Christ has been clarified the doctrine of the Theotokos, the Mother of God, at the Ecumenical Council at Ephesus From there, take the patristic tradition Mary herself as an object of meditation, using the allegorical interpretation of the Bible, to compare, for example, Mary Eve, Mary being the new Eve, just as Jesus was seen as the new Adam, Mary is the one who creates a new human generation. And insistence on the perpetual virginity of the Virgin Mother also highlights this aspect of a new creature.

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