of the Mother of God
September 8th

At your holy birth, O Immaculate One, 

Joachim and Anna were freed

from the reproach of childlessness 

And Adam and Eve from the corruption of death. 

Your people, delivered from the guilt of their faults, 

Celebrate your birth and cry out: 

“The barren woman gives birth to the Theotokos 

and the Sustainer of our Life.”

Kontakion by St Romanos the Melodist (6th

century)*

Bartolome Esteban Murillo

“The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary”

Oil on Canvas, Whereabouts unknown.  

Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486-90
Fresco (Painting done on a wall
using pigments and plaster)
Capella Tornabuoni
Santa Maria Novella, Florence.

Illustration done by Author:
Master of the Pfullendorf Altar
Paint on Wood
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

Reichlich, 1460-1520
”Geburt Mariae”
( The birth of Mary),
Oil on Canvas, Austria. 

“Birth of the Virgin:
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves”
A manuscript made in the northern Netherlands about 1440. 
Miniature painting within the manuscript. 

Russian Icon
The Museum of Russian Art
Tmora

*St. Romanos the Melodist, 6th century  Feast day: October 1

The foremost Greek hymnographer, known as “the Melodist” because of the thousand compositions which are attributed to him. A native of Syria, he was of Jewish descent and became a deacon in the church at Berytus and then a priest in Constantinople. He soon acquired a reputation for his brilliant and eloquent compositions, although only about eighty hymns sermons, some of which may not even be are extant. Some of the kontakia are considered genuine master works of religious literature, including On the Nativity, On the Presentation in the Temple, and On the Resurrection.  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4635

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