Annunciation enamel
"When the power of the Most High overshadowed the one who had never known the nuptial bed, her fruitful womb conceived, and she became for all a delicious field: for those who wished to reap salvation by singing 'Alleluia!'"
– from the Akathist hymn.
The great feast of the Annunciation is kept today, transferred from 25 March because of Holy Week and the Easter Octave.
Detail from a fine masterpiece of champleve enamelling, called the Triptych of Louis XII, and dating to c.1500. It is part of the Victoria & Albert Museum collection, and more information about it can be read here.
Annunciation enamel
"When the power of the Most High overshadowed the one who had never known the nuptial bed, her fruitful womb conceived, and she became for all a delicious field: for those who wished to reap salvation by singing 'Alleluia!'"
– from the Akathist hymn.
The great feast of the Annunciation is kept today, transferred from 25 March because of Holy Week and the Easter Octave.
Detail from a fine masterpiece of champleve enamelling, called the Triptych of Louis XII, and dating to c.1500. It is part of the Victoria & Albert Museum collection, and more information about it can be read here.