![]() ![]() The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said: "Peace be with you." Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands and put out your hand, and place it in my side do not be faithless, but believing." Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to Him: "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." So the other disciples told him: "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them: "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in His side, I will not believe."Įight days later, His disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them: "Receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them: "Peace be with you." When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Maximian was sorely grieved over this, and when he learned who was the cause of this defeat, he commanded straightway and Demetrius was pierced with lances while he was yet in the bath-house, As for Nestor, Maximian commanded that he be slain with his own sword. Receiving this blessing and sealing himself with the sign of the precious Cross, he presented himself in the stadium, and said, "O God of Demetrius, help me!" and straightway he engaged Lyaeus in combat and smote him with a mortal blow to the heart, leaving the former boaster lifeless upon the earth. Seeing this, a certain youth named Nestor, aquaintance of Demetrius', came to the Saint in the bath-house and asked his blessing to fight Lyaeus single-handed. A certain friend of his, a barbarian who was a notable wrestler, Lyaeus by name, waxing haughty because of the height and strength of his body, boasted in the stadium and challenged the citizens to a contest with him. While the games were under way in the city, Maximian was a spectator there. But when it was discovered that the Saint was a Christian, he was arrested and kept bound in a bath-house. When Maximian first came to Thessalonica in 290, he raised the Saint to the rank of Duke of Thessaly. Bulgarian icons through the centures, 1987., 6.Теоfana Матakieva-Likova. In 1991 he and his family established a small icon gallery - "IRINA & SONS" in their home in Sofia.ġ. He writes mainly copies of Orthodox icons but accepts special commissions of Catholic icons too. Currently he works as an art history teacher in the Applied Arts high school in Sofia. In 1989 - 1990 he is on specialization in St. In the period 1975 - 1979 he attends a Fine Arts academy in Sofia, where he graduates as an Art historian. He studies in an Fine Arts high school in the years 1963 - 1968. His love of painting dates back from the days of his early childhood. Ustinian was born on in Sofia, Bulgaria in the family of artists. Many of his worksĪre now in private collections in Bulgaria, USA, France, Belgium, Greece, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Swiss, Slovakia. In 2005 the exhibition "European Heritage Days" - in Sofia. During 2007-2008, 4 icons exhibitions were held in the Bulgarian Cultural Institutes in Vienna, Bratislava, Prague and Budapest. The first exhibition featuring his work only, was held in 1996 in Belgium. His largest exhibitions during the last five years were the following: Ustinian Tilov has taken part in many icons exhibitions. IRINA and SONS is an on-line icon gallery, featuring the hand-painted icons of Bulgarian artist Ustinian Tilov, crafted as authentic replicas and author copies using the traditional technique for Christian Orthodox Icons - tempera on wood panel, and following the canon for depiction of saints.
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