THEN AND NOW

PAINTINGS [CLAIMED TO BE PAINTED

2000 YEARS AGO] BY APOSTLE LUKE-
-- Saint Luke, the author of the
third Gospel and the Acts of the
Apostles, was a companion and
fellow worker of Saint Paul.
According to Colossians 4:11-14, he
was a Gentile and a physician. St.
Luke was arrested and martyred in
Rome under Nero. He is the patron
saint of physicians and artists. Feast
day: October 18 (Coptic Orthodox:
November 1). :

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Our Lady of Expectation

(India) – Saint Luke
This image of Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, was
painted by St. Luke. It was carried by St. Thomas the
apostle to India about one thousand, nine hundred
and fifty years ago. Today, Mary continues to be
venerated through this painting. It is kept at the
main altar in the Church of Mount St. Thomas in
Madras, India, the place where St. Thomas was
martyred
[2]
Kykkos Monastery - Icon of Virgin Mary

Kykkos Monastery - Icon of Virgin Mary, September 2016, © Gerhard Huber, under
Kykkos Monastery - Icon of Virgin Mary. The reason
for Kykkos's importance, however, is not its exclusive
structures, but a rain-giving icon of Mary, said to be
painted by St. Luke the Evangelist. Often pilgrims
queue up endlessly to kiss the wonder-working
icon.Jun 8, 2017

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Preface by the (late) Archbishop of Cyprus, Makarios III

The Holy, Royal and Stavropygiac Monastery of Kykko is for the

people of Cyprus not only an important religious institution and a

place of pious Christian worship but also a wider national, spiritual

and moral symbol, inextricably woven with a long tradition and

history.Hallowed by the sweet figure of the Mother of God, invested

with the imperial protection of Byzantium and strengthened with

privilege granted by the Byzantine overlords of Cyprus, the

Monastery of Kykko has been the holy Ark in which the miraculous

icon of the Mother of God, which according to tradition was painted

by St. Luke himself, has been preserved.

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[3] Saint Luke the

Evangelist

Icon of the blessed Virgin

Mary by Luke the
Evangelist
As an artist

Luke the Evangelist

painting the first icon
of the Virgin Mary
Christian tradition, starting from the 8th century,
states that Luke was the first icon painter. He is said
to have painted pictures of the Virgin Mary and Child,
in particular the Hodegetria image in Constantinople
(now lost). Starting from the 11th century, a number
of painted images were venerated as his autograph
works, including the Black Madonna of Częstochowa
and Our Lady of Vladimir. He was also said to have
painted Saints Peter and Paul, and to have illustrated
a gospel book with a full cycle of miniatures.[39][40]
Late medieval Guilds of Saint Luke in the cities of
Late Medieval Europe, especially Flanders, or the
"Accademia di San Luca" (Academy of Saint Luke) in
Rome—imitated in many other European cities during
the 16th century—gathered together and protected
painters. The tradition that Luke painted icons of
Mary and Jesus has been common, particularly in
Eastern Orthodoxy. The tradition also has support
from the Saint Thomas Christians of India who claim
to still have one of the Theotokos icons that Saint
Luke painted and which St. Thomas brought to India.
[41]

It is the most revered one in Chilandar, and the most significant

icon for the Serbian people. According to legend, it belongs to
the icons painted by the Apostle and Evangelist St. Luke, the
first Christian painter.

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Tradition says the apostle Luke painted this image of Mary, mother
of Jesus, from memory. Inside the Church of 100 Gates, Paros.[this
church initially built in the 4th century AD.:]In the Justinian period
(6th century) the palaeochristian parts were altered and the basilica
was rebuilt,

The main attraction of the church is the icon of Holy Mary holding
Christ

After all of the additions and alterations. the Ekantontapiliani

became complex as it had palaeochristian, Byzantine, and post-
Byzantine cycladic architectural characteristics. The first Christians
chose the area of the ancient temple to build the first building, even
before Konstantinos and Justinian used some of its marble parts for
their own building. As a result, the church bears evidence of all the
eras of the Greek civilization, from ancient times to today.. They were
used as a bunker and the Vaptistirion, the place where the marble
cross-shaped typescript is situated. Christians of old age were
christened there until the 4th century. Later on, the christening of
infants became a custom
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The Church of 100 doors, Paros, Greece

Christianity and Greek mythology meet at this fourth
century church moments from the busy port – and in
the island’s annual festivities
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The
church of Panagia Ekatontapiliani (Church
of 100 Doors) in Paros, Greece
Photograph:

There’s a silver mother and child icon in

every house on the Greek island of Paros,
so what’s the story? Friend and local
Paraskevi tells me: “You’ll find the original
in Ekatontapiliani, the Church of 100
Doors.”
Two minutes from the sea, hidden from the
bustle of Parikia’s port, the fourth-
century church is all arches, dome and
windows (although there aren’t 100
doors). I light a candle and walk to the
glittering Madonna, a Byzantine icon
covered with silver in 1788. I queue, kiss
the child, then sit.

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The silver Madonna.
There are pots of basil outside, lovingly
tended in memory of ninth-century nun
Osia Theokisti, who lived alone on the
island for 35 years after escaping from
pirates, surviving on wild basil and holy
water. On either side of the shrine, deep in
the foundations and visible through a glass
floor, are marble pillars from a Grecian
temple to Aphrodite, which stood here
before. Every August, villagers carry icons
of Mary down to the sea, with fireworks
and partying. Surely such festivities date
back to the rites of ocean-born Aphrodite,
when clay effigies were thrown into the
ocean?

Greek Icon Madonna & Child. 950 Silver

Riza , Byzantine Hagiography

Silver Tradition Art.].Precious holy Image

Madonna & Child made of pure silver
950/1000 degrees proof,which depicts
traditional hapiography. Exact ..

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Verkhny Garad Cathedral;Minsk,

Belarus

Holy Spirit Cathedral (Minsk)

The Cathedral
The Holy Spirit Cathedral (Belarusian:
Кафедральны сабор Сашэсця Святога
Духа) in Minsk, Belarus is dedicated to the
Holy Spirit. It is the central cathedral of
the Belarusian Orthodox Church.

The Theotokos icon

in the Cathedral has
been reported as
miraculous
The cathedral dates back to 1633–1642,
when the Bernardine monastery was built,
at a time when the city was in centre of
the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The
building was damaged by fire in 1741 and
required the reconstruction of the
entireConstruction of the original church began
in 1628 ;The cathedrals most sacred relic is
the Icon of the Blessed Virgin of Minsk
supposedly painted by the Apostle Luke and
blessed by the virgin herself with the
words "Devine mercy may fall on these images".
It was a given to the city of Kiev in 998
by Prince Vladimir following his conversion.
It was later stolen by raiding Tatars,
stripped of its ornamentation and tossed
into the River Dnieper. It reemerged from
the Svisloch River in Minsk on the city’s
patron saint’s day August 26th 1500
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The Iveron Icon, which at present

is preserved in a monastery on
Athos, by tradition was painted by
the Apostle and Evangelist Luke.
The Icon gets its name from the
Georgian monastery on the Holy
Mountain where it is kept

MONASTERY OF MOUNT ATHOS

,GREECE:-

Historical documents on ancient Mount

Athos history are very few. It is certain
that monks have been there since the 4th
century, and possibly since the 3rd. During
Constantine I's reign (324–337) both
Christians and pagans were living there.
During the reign of Julian the Apostate
(361–363), the churches of Mount Athos
were destroyed, and Christians hid in the
woods and inaccessible places. Later,
during Theodosius I's reign (383–395), the
pagan temples were destroyed. The
lexicographer Hesychius of Alexandria
states that in the 5th century there was
still a temple and a statue of "Zeus
Athonite". After the Islamic conquest of
Egypt in the 7th century, many orthodox
monks from the Egyptian desert tried to
find another calm place; some of them
came to the Athos peninsula. An ancient
document states that monks

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The [8
]
Black Madonna of
Częstochowa Poland [History:- The
icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa has been
intimately associated with Poland for the
past six hundred years. Its history prior to
its arrival in Poland is shrouded in
numerous legends which trace the icon's
origin to St. Luke who painted it on a
cypress table top from the house of the
Holy Family.Ukrainian sources state that it
was taken by Władysław Opolski from the
Castle of Belz, when the town was
incorporated into the Polish kingdom and
that earlier in its history it was brought to
Belz with much ceremony and honors by
Knyaz Lev I of Galicia [7] The Jasna Góra
Monastery,poland

The
Vladimir Madonna" - is one of the most
venerated Orthodox icons and a typical
example of Byzantine iconography.The icon
is displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.About 1131 the Greek Patriarch
Luke Chrysoberges of Constantinople sent
the icon as a gift to Grand Duke Yury
Dolgoruky of Kiev. The image was kept in
the Mezhyhirskyi Monastery until
Dolgoruky's son Andrey Bogolyubskiy
brought it to his favourite city, Vladimir, in
1155.In 1395, during Tamerlane's invasion,
the image was taken from Vladimir to the
new capital of Moscow. The spot where
people and the ruling prince met the icon
is commemorated by the Sretensky
Monastery. Vasili I of Moscow spent a night
crying over the icon, and Tamerlane's
armies retreated the same day.In
December 1941, as the Germans
approached Moscow, Stalin allegedly
ordered that the icon be placed in an
airplane and flown around the besieged
capital. Several days later, the German
army started to retreat
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O u r L a d y o f C z e s t o c h o w a , Poland, said to have been painted by

St. Luke the Evangelist

[10] St. Luke’s Icon has resided in St.

Mary Major Basilica, Rome, for about 1,700 years.

St. Luke painted this Icon of Mary

(about the year 60 AD) while she was staying with St.
John the Apostle. According to tradition, when St.
Luke “wrote” the Icon, he accurately rendered the
Blessed Virgin’s authentic facial features.
The Icon was written directly onto a three foot by five
foot cedar plank, believed to be part of a table that
Jesus had originally hand crafted during his time in
Nazareth. When Mary went to stay with St. John, in
Ephesus (a town located in southwestern Turkey) the
table evidently made the trip, as well.
Lost for over 200 years, the Icon was discovered by St.
Helena (mother of Emperor Constantine) in
Jerusalem, buried near the True Cross, on or about
the year 326 AD.
The title of the Icon is Salus Populi Romani
(“Protectoress of the Roman People”). It is the only
major Icon attributed to Saint Luke (who is also the
writer of the Gospel bearing his name, “the Acts of
the Apostles” and most of St. Paul’s epistles.)
St. Luke is also believed to have been a physician
(medical doctor).
Tradition and history informs us that St. Luke’s Icon
has resided in St. Mary Major Basilica, Rome, for about
1,700 years.

[11]

St. Luke (San Luca) is the patron

saint of artists because supposedly he was a painter
himself. Legend has it that he painted a portrait of
Mary from life, with her actually sitting there, making
it the equivalent of a photograph, I guess. Some
versions of the legend say that he did the painting on
a wooden table top that Joseph and Jesus had made.
The story goes that Mary infused the painting with her
blessings and grace, turning it into a miracle-working
icon that would carry her power across the centuries.
Now I’m not sure if Luke did one painting of her or
many, but there are churches all over the globe that
claim to have a St. Luke painting of the Madonna, and
these images have been revered for hundreds of years
with lots of stories about miracles, healings, and
deliverance from wars and disease. In the Middle
Ages, people made pilgrimages to visit these paintings
which were just as venerated as the relics of any
saint.
Well, Venice has not one but three icons that were
supposedly painted by St. Luke. One is the Madonna
Nikopeia in the Basilica di San Marco (that’s her in the
photo above), the second is the Madonna de Pace icon
in San Zanipolo, and the third is the Virgin
Mesopanditissa icon on the high altar of Santa Maria
della Salute.

PAINTINGS OF ST LUKE PAINTING MARY AND CHRIST:-

Saint Luke the Evangelist