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Ray Glennon OFS

Thread. (Note: And as

@RobertEllsberg

knows, first icon is by Rublev and a copy was displayed by

on his prayer altar at L’Arche Daybreak)

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Many of the earliest icons were destroyed in a zealous campaign that saw them condemned as idolatrous vestiges of paganism. Their defenders argued in vain that it was not the image they venerated but the spiritual reality it reflected. But there was a deeper issue at stake:

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

The first icon, indeed by Rublev, was discovered in Russia in 1918 mending a hole in the stairway of a barn.

6:35 AM · Oct 22, 2019

Ray Glennon OFS

Thanks for reply and great story.