Icon of the Council of the Holy Military Martyrs: Sources and Meaningstranslated

Răzvan Mihai Clipici, patriarchal advisor to the Culture, Painting and Restoration Sector of the Patriarchal Administration, published an explanatory study about the Icon of the Cathedral of the Holy Military Martyrs.

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This year, at the proposal of the Blessed Father Patriarch Daniel, the members of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decided [1] to institute the celebration of the Council of the Holy Military Martyrs, which will be celebrated on the day of commemoration of the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius, the Fountain of Myrrh, on October 26 every year, as he is the initiator of the Council of the Holy Military Martyrs.

In this context, with the blessing of the Blessed Father Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the icon depicting this celebration was made by the painters Răzvan-Lucian and Mihaela Bădescu, iconographers who worked on many icons of the saints recently canonized by our Church. Răzvan Bădescu and his wife, Mihaela, were chosen to paint the icon taking into account their experience in Byzantine iconography, their works being appreciated not only in Romania, but also in the Churches of Greek ethnicity, at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in the Church of Cyprus, in...