tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755500513614183073.post2330143206581450949..comments2024-03-27T22:36:55.671-04:00Comments on Fountain of Elias: Presentation of Maryelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755500513614183073.post-32002219355477950632015-11-21T20:35:32.689-05:002015-11-21T20:35:32.689-05:00Fascinating! Thank you, Clare!Fascinating! Thank you, Clare!elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755500513614183073.post-15488650753742289482015-11-21T12:52:16.802-05:002015-11-21T12:52:16.802-05:00I am having so much pleasure online today at redis...I am having so much pleasure online today at rediscovering the many wonderful eikonographic depictions of this apocryphal tale - I like to establish credit for the creative efforts where I can on Twitter, and indicate the mystagogia-teaching enclosed within the tender docile images, here for example how the three steps echo the three aspects of the Trinitarian gift of faith you draw attention to in your post! <br />FYI there's an Ecuadorean image named Our Lady of the Ladder <br />commons*wikimedia*org/wiki/File:Virgen_de_la_Escalera_-_Fray_Pedro_Bed%C3%B3n_%28siglo_XVI%29.jpg more translate*google*com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww*cervantesvirtual*com%2Fobra-visor%2Fcontribuciones-a-la-historia-del-arte-en-el-ecuador-volumen-iii--0%2Fhtml%2F00207432-82b2-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_23*html<br />as in the 'stairway to heaven' prefigured in supplanter/overreacher/defrauder Jacob's luminous vision of the ascending/descending angelic hosts of Heaven, prior to his renewal as Isra-el 'he who struggled with God') that visually mirrors the sentiment of the Church Father from Damascus<br />"and like a green olive she became a tree" with all her blessed Hebrew forefathers (so key in Spanish history of somewhat-forced evangelization of morisco converts, and perhaps therefore attraction to Mozarabic/Eastern-imagination iconography, nb in Arabic fatima means 'without fault/vice' ie the flawless one or immaculata, as 'fatwa' is teaching on avoiding faults, ie a lost Christian synthesis of faith and reason, training in virtue ever-dependent on the Divine Will) calling to mind the 'radix jesse' images of Advent antiphons Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16685207104773813929noreply@blogger.com