Thread. (Note: And as @RobertEllsberg knows, first icon is by Rublev and a copy was displayed by @HenriNouwen on his prayer altar at L’Arche Daybreak)
@RobertEllsberg @RobertEllsberg
21 Oct 2019
Many of the earliest icons were destroyed in a zealous campaign that saw them condemned as idolatrous vestiges of paganism. Their defenders argued in vain that it was not the image they venerated but the spiritual reality it reflected. But there was a deeper issue at stake:
Show this thread
1
Replying to @RayGlennon @henrinouwen
The first icon, indeed by Rublev, was discovered in Russia in 1918 mending a hole in the stairway of a barn.

Oct 22, 2019 · 6:35 AM UTC

1
1
Replying to @RobertEllsberg @henrinouwen
Thanks for reply and great story.