{"id":9038,"date":"2025-09-18T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:28:53","slug":"the-miraculous-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/the-miraculous-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miraculous Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miraculous Painting<\/strong><\/p>\n

The marvelous work of God, revealed upon earth for the cure of the flesh and salvation of soul was by His Divine Will. The Lord revealed by the flesh of mankind made many miraculous and much more even after His ascension, the astonishing work of His has not yet seized which was made in various ways.<\/p>\n

More than any the mysterious work done by Holy Mother Saint Virgin Mary is very amazing. The work of salvation made upon our Mother is for the entire human race. We might not have words to express this incredible deed but it shall be our will to praise the Lord. Furthermore, after her ascension alike the Lord, beloved son of hers, marvels miracles has been done. Holy Scriptures has sated about these miracles frequently. \u00a0Midst these works of Saint Mary, is about one miraculous painting. The Ethiopian Synaxarium Meskerem 10 states this story.<\/p>\n

A certain widow whose name was Martha lived who turned her House into a habitation for pilgrims; she loved our Lady Mary exceedingly, and ministered unto her with all her power. \u00a0One day there lodged with her a certain righteous monk whose name was Theodore, and she received him with joy. \u00a0And on the following day when she was bidding him farewell, she said unto him, \u201cWhither goes thou, O father?\u201d \u00a0He said to her, \u201cI go to worship in the Sanctuary in Jerusalem.\u201d \u00a0She said unto him, \u201cTake a little money from me to buy me a picture of our Lady Mary, and bring it to me when thou returns to me\u201d; and he said to her, \u201cI will buy [a picture] with my own money, and bring it to thee.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he had arrived in Jerusalem he knelt and prayed in the holy places, and he set out on his return journey without having bought the picture.\u00a0 Immediately he heard a\u00a0 voice,\u00a0 which\u00a0 said\u00a0 unto\u00a0 him,\u00a0 \u201cWhy\u00a0 has you forgotten to buy the picture?\u201d being troubled by the voice he turned back into the marketplace, and found a picture of our Lady Mary, which had sweet features and a beautiful form. \u00a0Having bought it he wrapped it up in cotton and in fine linen. \u00a0as he was traveling along a terrible road in the desert thieves rose up against him, and when he was wishing to take to flight, a voice came forth from that picture which said, \u201cFear not: complete thy journey\u201d; and he went on his way and none challenged him.<\/p>\n

Another time a savage lion rose up against him and wanted to rend him, and straightway an awful voice came forth from that picture and drove away the lion. \u00a0When Theodore saw all these signs and wonders, he wanted to carry that picture and drove away the lion. When Theodore saw all these signs and wonders, he wanted to carry that picture to his own city, and he did not wish to give it to the widow.<\/p>\n

As he was traveling by boat on another journey, the wind rose up against him and carried him towards Damascus. \u00a0Having disembarked he went into the house of that widow with several other pilgrims, and he did not discover himself to her, and she did not know him. On the following day when he wished to go forth secretly and to depart to his city, the gates of the house failed to work and they remained jammed throughout the day; in the evening the monk returned to his abode, and when the widow saw him she wondered. \u00a0He continued to do this for three days, returning each evening; he saw the gate, but when he wished to go through it, he was unable to go on his way. \u00a0Then the widow took him and said unto him, \u201cO my father, what ailed thee? \u00a0Is thine heart troubled that I see thee thus disturbed?\u201d\u00a0 Then he told her everything that had come upon him in the matter of the picture.<\/p>\n

Straightway she brought him into her house, and she opened the wrappings of the picture and found that drops of sweat were falling from it; and by reason of her joy she kissed the hands and feet of the monk. \u00a0Then she took the picture into her prayer-chamber, and laid it upon a stand in a recess with great honors.\u00a0 She made for it a brass grating, so that no one could touch it, and she hung before it lamps which burned by day and by night, and outside these she hung silken curtains.\u00a0 Beneath the picture she set a marble bowl into which the drops of oil, which sweated out from it, might be collected. \u00a0That monk dwelt with the widow, and ministered to the picture of our Lady Mary until they both died.\u00a0 And when the archbishop of that city heard the report of the picture, he, and the bishops and the priests and all the people came [to the house], and when they looked at the tablet with the picture they found that it was in the condition of being covered with flesh; and they marveled at this divine work. \u00a0Having emptied out the oil from the bowl, and divided it among themselves as a blessed thing, the bowl filled up [again] immediately. \u00a0When they attempted to remove the picture to another spot a great earthquake took place, and many people died; and the picture remain there until this day.<\/p>\n

The revelation of the miracle of our Lady Mary in the city of Tsedenya when oil dropped from the tablet with her portrait [painted] upon it as if it had been clothed with flesh is commemorated in our Holy Church. \u00a0Now, it is said that Luke the evangelist painted this portrait.<\/p>\n

May the Lord blesses us by the cross; Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When he had arrived in Jerusalem he knelt and prayed in the holy places, and he set out on his return journey without having bought the picture. Immediately he heard a voice, which said unto him, \u201cWhy has you forgotten to buy the picture?\u201d being troubled by the voice he turned back into the marketplace, and found a picture of our Lady Mary, which had sweet features and a beautiful form. Having bought it he wrapped it up in cotton and in fine linen. as he was traveling along a terrible road in the desert thieves rose up against him, and when he was wishing to take to flight, a voice came forth from that picture which said, \u201cFear not: complete thy journey\u201d; and he went on his way and none challenged him. Another time a savage lion rose up against him and wanted to rend him, and straightway an awful voice came forth from that picture and drove away the lion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}