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#375078 - 01/31/12 12:33 PM Ethiopian icons
Nataly Member Registered: 01/08/12 Posts: 43 Loc: Russia	Naive, bright,decorative and beautiful - let us see the Ethiopian icons full of rare sincere religious feelings http://www.pravmir.ru/efiopskaya-ikonopis-foto/
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#375079 - 01/31/12 12:45 PM Re: Ethiopian icons [Re: Nataly]
Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member Registered: 10/27/03 Posts: 8894 Loc: Massachusetts	Very nice, Nataly! Thanks for posting the link. I agree with you, I've always thought that the folk style and brilliant coloration of Ethiopian iconography was compelling. The very simplicity of them is itself a beautiful expression of faith. Many years, Neil _________________________ "One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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