Zograf Monastery
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The Saint George the Zograf Monastery or Zograf Monastery is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in the North Aegean region of Greece. It was founded in the late 9th or early
External view of the monastery
Interior view
Page from the Codex Zographensis
French mission in the monastery, 1917, during WWI
Acheiropoieta
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Acheiropoieta are Christian icons that are said to have come into existence miraculously, and not created by humans. They are also called icons made without hands. Invariably, these are images of Jesu
Zograf Monastery
…14th century icon of Saint George, known as Saint George the Zograf (Светѝ Гео̀рги Зогра̀ф). The name of the latter comes from the belief that the icon mysteriously painted itself on the prepared board (zograf(os) in Greek means "painter" (from zoe="life" and graphos="scribe"). The earliest written evidence of the monastery's existence dates from 980…
An 18th-century painting of God the Father painting the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, an unusual Marian image
10th-century depiction of the legend of King Abgarus of Edessa
The image in its setting in the Pontifical Sanctuary of the Holy Stairs, Rome
Manoppello Image