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Icons
of St. Gregory I, the Great, Pope of Old Rome, Dialogist, Apostle of
England
Feast: Mar.
12 (repose); also, Sept. 3 (his consecration)
A staunch defender of
Orthodoxy, St. Gregory declared the Four Oecumenical Councils which had
occurred up until his day to be equal in authority to the Four Gospels.
In the 8th c., in England, he was known as "St. Gregory Chrysostom."
Top Icon: by the hand of Alexander Stolyarov, courtesy of Hieromonk
Benedikt (Schneider) of the Moscow Patriarchate. A relic of the great
Saint is embedded into the holy icon. St. Gregory is shown with the
traditional Western tonsure and in traditional Western vestments.
Next Icon: from Mistra in
Greece. Click to see greater detail.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Next Icon: from the M.P. St.
Michael's parish in Göttingen, Germany, with relic embedded.
Next
Icon: by the hand of Aidan Hart, Oecum. Patriarchate, UK.
Next
Icon: from the Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral in New York City. This
icon is noteworthy because St. Gregory is tonsured in the ancient
Western manner and is holding a three-bar cross staff which in much
later times in the West was the prerogative of a "patriarch" (often not
one of the historic patriarchates). The style of vestments is also very
accurate for an earlier Western Bishop. It was produced from the
Prosopon Iconography School of iconography master Vladislav Andreyev.
Next Icon: by the hand of
Protodeacon Paul (Hommes), Joy of All Who Sorrow Monastery, Belgium.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance, with inscriptions in English.
Next Icon: from St. Gregory
the Great Western Rite Antiochian Orthodox Church.
Next Icon: from an Anglo-Saxon
manuscript.
Lower icon above is from a
manuscript now kept at Monte Cassino near Rome (the saint at the left
is St. Gregory; the saint on the right is St. Peter the
Deacon).
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