"Revealing the Unseen": Exhibition of Byzantine Icons from Thessaloniki and Patmos at the Museum of the Bible in Washingtontranslated

A special exhibition dedicated to Byzantine art and the Greek Orthodox Christian tradition, under the title "Revealing the Unseen: Byzantine Icons from Thessaloniki and Patmos", opened at the Museum of the Bible in Washington. The exhibition includes 24 precious Byzantine icons from two historic Greek monasteries, which are linked to the Bible and have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites because of the icons and manuscripts they contain.

These are the Vlantadon Monastery in Thessaloniki, the city where the Apostle Paul preached, and the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Patmos, where the Apostle John received the visions of the Apocalypse.

The 24 icons are traveling to the USA for the first time, which was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Museum of the Bible with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, to whose spiritual jurisdiction the two monasteries belong, as well as with the Greek Ministry of Culture.

At the opening, messages were presented by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Minister of Culture of Greece Linas Mendonis, Bishop Amorios Nikiforos, abbot of the Holy Patriarchate and Stavropigian...