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Russian army has incorporate the purity seals in their armaments tho.

Don’t dispose of art

Love the channel. Thank you! 🙏

8:00 really doesn't sound like "orthodoxy" is "one church" when stuff like that happens.

We’re going to be shaving Gravantus

Bumping this

Emperor Constantine was a military man, so 100% he would have been clean shaven, at least in this period of his life, when he received the message from God: in hoc signo vinces.

Didn't we learn from the heresy of the Donatism (which saw the whole province of Africa succumb to it, and eventually to islam), that even when a priest is secretly a devil worshipper who lives in mortal sin, he still carries the authority of God, to forgive sins etc. I see an analogy here.

We still make gigachad edits today, are we really different from iconographers from hundreds to thousands of years ago?

Where do you get these beautiful icons?

Amazing. Once again it’s Nikons fault.

As a former Protestant (Pentecostal ) I apologize for the ignorance in the comments of any Protestants

Fascinating history. I like the style of your videos.

This must be the right channel for an authentic presentation on All Hallows Eve and the original folklore connected to it. Could you possibly make one of these?

You do know the Constantine story was Roman propaganda and all evidence points to he still worshipped Saturn and Apollo from all the art work he had made? Jokes on Catholics. 😅😅😅😂

Excellent video on an incredibly interesting subject. Keep it up fam!

I had the opposite happen at age 16.... some really evil heavy metal art was in icon style ... I was protestant and knew nothing about Orthodoxy.... many years later , I now troll Protestantism and highly respect and endorse Orthodoxy

Old Believers were also imprisoned, exiled, tortured and killed...

I swear any orthodox based video the first hate comments come from either Protestants and sometimes Muslim I find it weird but then you realize both those groups lose many to the truth of orthodoxy it starts to make sense , they’re bitter

Ivan the Terrible pluck out the eyes of the Architecture who design ST Basil, so he couldn't repeat it.

i don't understand. if orthodox belief is that the icon itself is not sacred, but only the image is a reflection of what is being venerated in the persons heart and the material itself "usless wood" then why would it matter that there was a picture hidden underneath? if the person is unaware of this hidden layer of paint, and their heart is towards the saint and God, then saying they are really praying to demons because the piece of wood says so seem to rebel against this church doctrine and enters the realm of superstition. (but i'm not orthodox, so i'm happy to be educated on their beliefs)

Very timely video! Thank you for this! It's a good lens to look at the celebrations of Halloween through.😊

There was a 1982 movie with James Earl Jones entitled Bloodtide that, one could argue, used a “Hell Icon” as a MacGuffin.

Quality content!

The fable isn't bad at all , the faithful hear what God says

Wouldn’t it be better to ONLY pray to Jesus?

Catechumen here. Just discovered your channel. Can't wait to go through your older videos! God Bless and Glory to God.

Wow. I am surprised at how well you completely misrepresented the Old Believer schism.

Another fascinating take. Good work, Gravantus. Keep it up.

These merchants were known as afenyas (афени). Before first railroad, they were messangers and travelling merchants, who sold many things including illegal, old believers iconography and there were instances of scams by Hell writtwn iconography as well. They had their own coded language which became integrated in time with street/thug dialect fenya (феня), after railroad made them without use.

There was a more recent example of something similar, a certain icon producer was mixing orthodoxy with Hinduism in their production.

6:35 Ah yes, the only thing worse than the literal prince of darkness himself, *a Turkish dude with a nicotine addiction.*

Fantastic channel here

I love the thumbnail. You thought it was Saint John Maximovich, but it was me Stalin!

"The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them." - Psalm 135: 15- 18

This passage is obviously about abortion to anyone who hasn't been brainwashed by the church. It details an abortion process ffs, it even mentions the child dying as a result. What else could it possibly be

I love the video ,the editing,the information etc . I subscribed .

What a great channel! Glad I found you, god bless

totally not idol worship bro

What's the intro song? It sounds familiar...

Hell icons have always been a fascinating topic for me. The idea that our prayers might accidentally go to something unholy is silly. A more plausible theory, and a more frightening one, is that the devil deliberately seeded a baseless superstition in the minds of men and fed it until, in their hysteria, they'd go around and destroy perfectly normal icons out of fear they might secretly depict the devil

As a Catholic, this has helped put into perspective a lot of what I had already begun to feel about "aliens" as I started back on the journey to find God again after a long stint of Atheism, the feelings of vague "wrongness" i had felt about something and the highly stimulating sensation often accompanying them. One of the most sobering experiences, which helped lead me back on the path to Christ, was to be informed simply of how much I had been lied to about the Church and wider, pre-protestant Christendom's stance on Superstition. Rather than being the "backwards peddlers of magic and wizards in the sky" like i had been lead to believe, the church was always first and foremost the bringer of calm contemplation, mental sobriety and reason. The opposer of Witch hunts and believing in men from the sky. Or how the Devils described as summoned by King Solomon did not make their requirements some esoteric list of crazy rules needed to summon them, but very simple sins. And it truly is terrifying how disarmed Secular Man is to fend off any of these ideas and happenings, as you said near the end. Because why would a demon show up to a layman as a red skinned goat man with a pitch fork and thusly send him running to church when he can either appear as something wholly confusing OR simply use the person's lack of experiences with them to convince him that other genuine demon activities are the kinds of superstitions one becomes subject to in the church? Ave Christus Rex.

that's well and good but i still want to know what a gravantus or a baten kaitos is

Russian Orthodoxy is basically just 40K between the priests blessing nukes and planes (a broken missile won't fly no matter how many times you baptize it) and this.

Very interesting, I'd never heard of these before.

This is one of my favorite pet subjects. I love that we're in our era of high-quality videos.

It would be great if you would do a short on the origins of Halloween. Thank you