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Icons of St. Augustine of
Hippo, Bishop in Africa, named a Church Teacher by the Sixth
Oecumenical Council of the Orthodox Church.
Feast: Aug. 15
Top Icon: from the Atelier of
St. Andrew in France. St. Augustine is here shown in Western-rite
bishop's vestments of the 13th century. The diamond-shaped subcingulum
is a standard vestment for the Roman rite as it was preserved in
mediaeval Italy.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance, but appears to be of Greek origin and is featured on the
cover of the latest edition of Fr. Seraphim (Rose)'s magnificent work,
"The Place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church."
Next
Icon: from an old manuscript in the British Library. A priest presents
a book to St. Augustine.
Next Icon: by the hand of Mary
Sullivan Coit
Next
Icon: by the hand of Maria Ciucur of Romania.
Next Icon: the oldest known
icon of St. Augustine of Africa, a 6th-century fresco in the Church of
St. John Lateran in Rome.
Next Icon: by the hand of
iconographers Klaus and Barbara Kegelmann
Next Icon: drawing of icon by
Ralles Kopsidis, student of Photios Kontoglou.
Beneath the last icon is
shown the reliquary of St. Augustine with the elbow of the Saint, at a
church in Algiers, Algeria, near ancient Hippo.
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