Picture Thread

[Nikolai]

Enough talk! We need pics! We need pics! This is Ming's grandma:

[Heresson]

I've seen her already.

[Shogun Gunner]

/me thinks he's read all this somewhere else previously...

[Clear Skies]

Originally posted by Heresson
I've seen her already.

In the Biblical sense?

[Heresson]

We do need the vomit smiley.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
* Shogun Gunner thinks he's read all this somewhere else previously...

I've used her on a couple of other forums, are you a member of the PIF forums(Paradox)? It's my true belief that Ming's grandma is needed in this world of suffering...

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Heresson
We do need the vomit smiley.

Amen, brother!

[Heresson]

Ah! Paradox forum! That's where I've probably seen it!

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Nikolai
It's my true belief that Ming's grandma is needed in this world of suffering...

You should use this lady instead.

[Heresson]

That was Matka Boska Ostrobramska (Holy Mother of God of the Sharp Gate, in Vilnius), my grandma used to have a copy of it
and here is Mother of God of Czestochowa, the holiest icon in Poland (I like the one of Vilnius better)

[Heresson]

Here is she - without garments!

She is also known as Czarna Madonna, the Black Madonna.

There's a scarf on the painting, allegedly made by a Swede in the times of siege of the monastery it's kept in

[Heresson]

And here is the holy icon of Lysiec, Podole (nowdays in Ukraine) - it was transported after ww2 to my city and is kept in Armenian church.

[Nikolai]

Nice. Icons are often very beautiful. But they are only pictures IMHO, I can't understand why Orthodox "worship" them(I know it isn't worshiping, but it resembles it as I see it with my lutheran eyes...). But boy, are those a great piece of art!

[Heresson]

These are catholic icons, though with orthodox (at least the Black one) roots.
Catholicism do not share the orthodox attitude towards icons completely, however.
The cult of Icons, I think St John of Damascus made an intellectual justification for it.
I don't remember it exactly, though.

Btw, Mary is not only The Queen of Heaven, she's the eternal queen of Poland as well, since the Swedish flood

Oh! I didn't recall which icon it was about, but You can see a circle of stars around the head of Mary on the first picture. Some people were angry at EU's flag (a circle of stars on a dark blue field) because of that


Note that the first Mary rests on a half-moon. I think, but am not sure, that it's because of some part of Apocalypse.

[Nikolai]

Me and a distant relative of mine, this New Year's Eve. On a camp, as "always".