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“Blessed is Egypt My people.” 25 January 2011 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 50cm x 70cm 2017.1.4 Inspired by & noted on the boat: Isaiah 19:25 “Blessed is Egypt My people” |
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The Martyrs of Maspero 9 October 2011 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 50c m x 70cm 2014.2.1 Inspired by & inscribed on icon: Isaiah 49:16 “See, I have inscribed you on the palm of My hand.” Malachi 4:2 “But to you who fear My name, the Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings.” Zacharia 2:7 For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.”
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“If God is with us, who can be against us?” 1 July 2012 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 40cm x 60cm 2017.1.7
Inspired by and written on the sail of the boat: Romans 8:31 “What then shall we say of these things, if God is for us, who can be against us?”
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“The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” 7 May 2013 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 25cm x 35cm 2017.1.3 Original icon in the collection of H.H. Pope Tawadros II. Reproduced for the Museum by permission of His Holiness. Inspired by: Isaiah 49:15-16 “… I shall not forget you”, said the Lord. “Behold I painted your walls on My hands, and you will continually be with Me!” (inscribed on the boat) Exodus 14:14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
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The Victory 30 June, 2013 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 40cm x 60cm 2017.1.5 Inspired by and inscribed on boat: Malachi 4:2 “But to you who fear My name, the Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings.”
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The Christian Martyrs of Libya 16 February 2015 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 70cm x 50cm 2016.3.1
Inspired by: Revelations 6:9 -11 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried in a loud voice, saying: “How long O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on earth?” Then a white robe was given to each of them: and it is said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
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The Martyrs of St. Peter & St. Paul Cathedral (Cairo) – elBoutroseyya December 16, 2016 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 60cm x 40cm 2017.1.1 Inspired by: Ephesians 5: 27 “… that He might present her to Himself a Glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.” Matthew 16:18 “And I say to you that you are Peter and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” Revelations 8:12-13 12Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night. 13 And I looked, and I heard an angel flying in the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to sound!”
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The Martyrs of St. George (Tanta) and St. Mark’s Cathedral (Alexandria) 9 April 2017 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 60cm x 40cm 2017.1.2
Inspired by: Book of Revelations 7:9-10 After these things I looked, and behold a great multitude, which no one could number, of all nations, tribes and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed in white, with palm branches in their hands. And crying out in a loud voice, saying “Salvation belongs our God who sits on the throne to the Lamb.”
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The Martyrs of Qalamūn 26 May 2017 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 36cm x 47cm 2017.1.6 Inspired by and inscribed: Gospel of St. Luke 22:42 “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from me; nevertheless, not My will, but Yours be done.”
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The Martyrs of St. Menas and Pope Kyrillos VI Church (Helwan), 29 December 2017, and of al-Umraniya (Giza) 1 January 2018 Iconographer: Victor A. Fakhoury Tempera on wood 40cm x 28.5cm 2019.3.1 Inspired by and inscribed on hull of boat: Gospel of St. John 16 :33 “These things have I spoken to you, that in Me you may find peace. In the world you will find tribulations; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world”
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