Religious work of art, generally a panel painting, in Eastern Christianity

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Worshippers in the chapel of Elijah on Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.

A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

Die heiligen Ärzte in der Ostkirchenkunst / von C.H.W. Wendt.

Russian copper icons and crosses from the Kunz Collection : castings of faith / Richard Eighme Ahlborn and Vera Beaver-Bricken Espinola, editors.

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Die heiligen Ärzte in der Ostkirchenkunst / von C.H.W. Wendt.

Worshippers in the chapel of Elijah on Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

Russian copper icons and crosses from the Kunz Collection : castings of faith / Richard Eighme Ahlborn and Vera Beaver-Bricken Espinola, editors.

A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.

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Die heiligen Ärzte in der Ostkirchenkunst / von C.H.W. Wendt.

Worshippers in the chapel of Elijah on Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

Russian copper icons and crosses from the Kunz Collection : castings of faith / Richard Eighme Ahlborn and Vera Beaver-Bricken Espinola, editors.

A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.

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