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Icons of
St. Benedict of Nursia, Father of the Western Monks
More information on St.
Benedict is given below under that icon of him. The provenance of
the icon shown above is unknown. It styles the Saint "Archimandrite of
Rome," which is not entirely accurate as he was never an Archimandrite,
at least not called by that title in his lifetime, and he never lived
the monastic life at Rome, but was at a good distance at Nursia or
Norcia, and his foundation of Monte Cassino. He did study at Rome
briefly in his youth, however.
Top Icon: by the hand of
iconographer Janet Jaime, for St. Benedict's Western Rite Orthodox
Church in Wichita Falls, Texas. Courtesy of Janet Jaime.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance, from the blog "Logismoi" by Aaron Taylor, Russian Orthodox
Church Outside of Russia, Oklahoma.
Next Icon: by the hand of
iconographer Janet Jaime, apparently with embedded Relic of some kind.
Next Icon: by the hand of
Alexander Stolyarov, courtesy of Hieromonk Benedikt (Schneider) of the
Moscow Patriarchate. The Latin inscription St. Benedict is holding is
the prologue to the Holy Rule: "Hearken, my son, to the precepts of thy
master," etc.
Next Icon: also by Alexander
Stoljarov. The German inscription reads, "Das erste Kennzeichen wahrer
Demut ist unverzüglicher Gehorsam." That is, "The first proof of
genuine humility is unhesitating obedience."
Next Icon: Sts. Benedict the
Great and Photini, by the hand of Mother Justina, Greek Old Calendarist
Convent of St. Elizabeth the New-Martyr at Etna, California
Next
Icon: image from a manuscript in the British Library. St. Benedict
giving his Holy Rule to the monastics of the West.
Next
Icon: from St. Andrews Workshop in France.
Next
Icon: manuscript illumination from a MS. in the British Library. St.
Benedict gives the Holy Rule to St. Maurus.
Next
Icon: by the hand of Mother Justina, Greek Old Calendarist convent of
St. Elizabeth, Etna, California, with permission.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Next Icon: available from Holy
Transfiguration Monastery, Boston.
Next Icon: by the hand of
Father Gregory Abu-Asali of Buena Vista, Colorado.
Next
Icon: mosaic of St. Benedict from the basilica of San Marco, Venice.
Bottom-most Icon: Fresco from
a Church in Serbia (I believe it is Gracanica).
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