An AMAZING insight into the Orthodox NATIVITY ICON | Christ is Born!

In this special episode, the first of a new series (Orthodox Icons Explained), Fr. John offers us an amazing insight into the Orthodox icon of the Nativity of Christ. Which are the earliest representations? What about the manger, the wise men or the shepherds? How rich in meaning is the Nativity icon!
Fr. Ioan Bizau is a senior lecturer of Iconography and Christian Art at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Location: Diocesan Museum of the Orthodox Metropolis of Cluj (Muzeul Mitropoliei Clujului)
Camera: Darius Echim

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Table of contents:
0:00 🎵"Christ is born", by the Greek Byzantine Choir MAKRIS
1:09 The earliest representations
3:20 The ox and the donkey
5:13 🎵Romanian Christmas carol sung by the nuns of Durau Monastery, Romania
6:00 The manger - the Christian altar
8:11 The Kontakion of Holy Nativity
9:25 The cave
9:59 The tomb
11:00 🎵Vespers (Archdeacon Claudiu Grama), The Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral from Cluj-Napoca
11:20 The wise men
12:10 The shepherds
13:48 The three scenes of the icon of the Nativity
14:42 Joseph
16:10 🎵Romanian Christmas carol sung by the monks of the Monastery of St. Demetrios, Sighisoara, Romania
16:52 The washing of the Child
20:41 Credits
20:46🎵"Christ is born", by Fr. Maximos of Vatopedi

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