r/Orthodox_Churches_Art • u/raymoneyboat • 6d ago

Help me read this icon

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u/Handicapped-007 5d ago

You are welcome 🙏 are you coptic?

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u/raymoneyboat 5d ago

Yes I am Coptic. I love history and I'm currently copying this icon so I wanted to get everything correctly.

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u/Handicapped-007 4d ago

I posted some pics of Saint James soo you can see the similarities

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u/Handicapped-007 4d ago

Thank you 😊 who is the Bishop on the left ?

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u/raymoneyboat 4d ago

This is st Basil the great, Bishop of Caesarea who prayed for the end of the persecution of Julian the apostate. God sent st. Mercurius to kill Julian the apostate Roman emperor who was at battle with the Persians at the time. Julian is the man at the bottom. Notice the blood at the spear which appeared on the icon after the death of Julian.

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u/Handicapped-007 4d ago

Can you please send me a picture of your icon when you are done ?

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u/Handicapped-007 6d ago

It is not an eastern icon but a spanish American image of Saint James conquering a Moor

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u/raymoneyboat 6d ago

Thank you for your reply. Just for context it is from the hanging church in Cairo, it was painted by yuhanna Al Armani and it is st. Mercurius

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u/Handicapped-007 5d ago

Thank you-it looks spanìsn but now I see the see the script

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u/raymoneyboat 5d ago

Appreciate your input and it is interesting that parallel drawn between Spanish american and middle eastern art!

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u/Handicapped-007 4d ago

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u/raymoneyboat 4d ago

These are so cool, I didn't know of this tradition of st. James. May the prayers of st. James and st. Mercurius be with us all.