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the Romanian Skete Prodromos on Mount Athos shelters an icon of Theotokos considered in the Eastern Orthodox world to have been miraculously painted?
the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke, the main ceremonial entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople, marked the beginning of the Byzantine Iconoclasm?
the Capitoline Wolf, the icon of the founding of Rome, is actually an Etruscan bronze statue depicting a she-wolf suckling the infant twins Romulus and Remus?
a sermon by St Asterius, a 4th-century Bishop of Amasia, was cited twice at the Second Council of Nicaea, an ecumenical council in 787, as evidence supporting the veneration of religious icons?
semi-domes (pictured) are a typical focus for mosaic or fresco icons in Byzantine art?
Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by many Eastern Orthodox scholars, despite being a Roman Catholic?

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