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"When talking about Dostoevsky's famous line, "beauty will save the world," Solzhenitsyn said, "it is not a careless phrase, it is a prophecy.""
To the end of more beauty in this world, Ecce Images has sought permissions for some of our favorite Sacred Art Images, to promote and make them more known and available for private home chapels, while also where possible promoting and supporting those religious communities from which they come.
Options coming soon for mounted Icon wood boards, prints, prayer cards and more.
All image offerings curated with care either from the public domain, lesser known icons "written" by lay Catholic & Orthodox iconographers & artists, or from within monastic & religious communities, as well as designed, written, and made at our Ecce Images Community workspace.
All images reproduced with permission, with a portion of each sale donated.
Life of St Joseph Holy Family Icon
This unique icon was born from an inspiration of Father Rafael, Founder of the Home of the Mother religious order in Spain, and was "written" for the chapel of the Servant Brothers of the Home of the Mother in Cantabria, Spain, where it is venerated today.
Surrounding the central image of the Holy Family are important moments of the life of St Joseph, Father & Spouse.
Reproduced with permission
Veil of Manoppello + Turin Holy Face of Jesus
Holy Face of Jesus Image, compiled from a plexiglass copy of the Veil of Manoppello superimposed on a copy of the Shroud of Turin Holy Face
Photo taken at the Shrine of Saint Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer, Santa Cruz, CA, April 21, 2013.
"Jesus of Nazareth is the 'transparency' of God. And while we are constantly seeking other signs, other miracles, we do not realize that he is the True Sign: God made flesh. He is the greatest miracle, the whole of God's love contained in a human heart, in a man's face."
--Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Rublev Trinity at the Heart of Christ
One of our favorites and an early inspiration for Ecce Images - depicts the Rublev Trinity at Christ's Heart, like an Eastern Sacred Heart of Jesus, communicating the Love and Fullness of Divinity that is the God-Man Jesus Christ.
Custom icon by Vladislav Andrejev, commissioned by Abba Romano of the Hermits of Bethlehem in Chester, NJ.
Reproduced with permission
The Virgin of Fatima Icon
On the icon, in addition to the traditional Greek letters MР ΘY, indicating the Mother of Mary, there are two more inscriptions. The upper one is the title of the icon: "The image of the Most Pure Lady of our Virgin of Fatima". At the bottom left, it is written in large letters "You are the unity".
These words remind us of the ecumenical mission of the icon of the Virgin of Fatima, written by the joint efforts of a Catholic priest and an Orthodox icon painter in order to create an image in front of which both Catholics and Orthodox could pray.
It expresses two important ecumenical moments - the ecumenism of the Heart of Mary and the ecumenism of martyrdom - closely related to the message of Fatima.
Reproduced with permission
Holy Family at Work
This beautifully icon presents the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph -engaged in physical labor together.
Originally written by iconographer V.O. Mumrikov in 1923, the image is now preserved in the State Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom
Thomas Aquinas College, Ojai California
photo by Ecce Images
Christ’s Farewell to Mary - Pożegnanie Chrystusa z Marią
painted in 1900 by the Polish artist Piotr Stachiewicz (1858–1938). The original oil-on-panel work is in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw.
The Harrowing of Hell
Nikolay Andreyevich Koshelev (1840–1918)
Part of a series of paintings of Christ's Passion located in the Alexander Compound (Russian Hospice) in Jerusalem.
First Mass in California Icon
This virtually unknown icon was commissioned in 2002 by the Discalced Carmelite Friars and written by Brother Claude Lane, O.S.B., a Benedictine monk and iconographer at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon, in commemoration of the fourth centenary (1602 - 2002) of the first Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered in what would come to be California.
On November 12, 1602 (the feast of San Diego de Alcalá), three Discalced Carmelite friars—Andrés de la Asunción, Antonio de la Ascensión, and Tomás de Aquino—celebrated Mass at Ballast Point on Point Loma at the entrance to San Diego Bay. They were part of Sebastián Vizcaíno’s expedition charting the California coast.
Reproduced with permission
detail from The Infant Jesus with a Lamb (c. 1525)
by the Italian Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82–1532). The original small panel (about 28 × 25 cm) is in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Biblioteca Ambrosiana) in Milan.