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42640029 Mosaic Three Kings, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Mosaic Three Kings, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna; taken with a Canon EOS 1v.
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The absence of the abbreviation of the holy name MP (Meter) OY (theon), Mother of God, could be a sign of the refusal of Theodoric's Arian court to accept titles with Catholic meanings. The Roman model of the Mother of Christ and Mother of God is that of Sixtus III in S. Maria Maggiore. The inscriptions were not inserted into the Catholic integrations, the reason being that archbishop Agnello did something more: he added the Three Wise Men adoring the Christ, by divine revelation of the star, true man and true God, in the full concept of the Trinitarian and Christological faith of the ancient Christian ecumene.
initaly.com/regions/byzant/byzant4.htm#basnuo
42640029 Mosaic Three Kings, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Mosaic Three Kings, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna; taken with a Canon EOS 1v.
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The absence of the abbreviation of the holy name MP (Meter) OY (theon), Mother of God, could be a sign of the refusal of Theodoric's Arian court to accept titles with Catholic meanings. The Roman model of the Mother of Christ and Mother of God is that of Sixtus III in S. Maria Maggiore. The inscriptions were not inserted into the Catholic integrations, the reason being that archbishop Agnello did something more: he added the Three Wise Men adoring the Christ, by divine revelation of the star, true man and true God, in the full concept of the Trinitarian and Christological faith of the ancient Christian ecumene.
initaly.com/regions/byzant/byzant4.htm#basnuo