445 - Understanding the Icons of Holy Week
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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YouTube version: https://youtu.be/h55O4Kxs6tU
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Start / Introduction
00:48 - Palm Sunday (Entry into Jerusalem)
05:34 - Holy Monday (Bridegroom / Crown of Thorns)
07:54 - Holy Tuesday (Wise & Foolish Virgins)
10:15 - Holy Wednesday (Washing of the Feet)
12:37 - Holy Thursday (Mystical Supper)
14:36 - Holy Friday (Crucifixion)
19:27 - Holy Saturday (Descent into Hades / Anastasis)
21:47 - Resurrection & Empty Tomb
24:09 - Burial & Laying in the Tomb
26:20 - Conclusion / Meaning of Holy Week
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| 0:00.0 | What you're about to see as a video I made several years ago |
| 0:03.2 | before my house was flooded back in like 2018, 2019. |
| 0:08.1 | And it is looking at the symbolism |
| 0:10.5 | and the connection between all the different icons |
| 0:13.0 | that appear during Holy Week |
| 0:14.8 | and how there's a beautiful and very powerful relationship |
| 0:18.4 | between the different symbolism that we find in those icons. So please enjoy. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. |
| 0:38.3 | And so during Holy Week in the Orthodox tradition, there are a series of icons which appear. |
| 0:53.3 | And what's interesting about these icons is, |
| 0:56.2 | of course, they take us down the story of Holy Week towards the crucifixion and the resurrection. |
| 1:03.5 | But they also exemplify something that I've been telling you about for quite a while now, |
| 1:08.8 | which is the interrelated aspect of symbolism, |
| 1:12.0 | how symbolism is really a pattern. And so because it is a pattern, there are residences |
| 1:17.6 | which appear, you could say this way that the icons talk to each other. They call upon |
| 1:24.5 | each other. And what that does is it creates a symphonic effect, a symphony of imagery |
| 1:31.5 | which all, you know, cross over into each other and create this interconnected web of meanings. |
| 1:39.7 | And so when we look at the icons of Holy Week, we can see that happen quite beautifully. |
| 1:44.5 | And it can also help us to understand certain elements of certain icons, not by analyzing the |
| 1:49.7 | icons on their own, looking at what's in the icon, but at looking at how those icons relate |
| 1:56.1 | to other icons in the same cycle, into the cycle of Holy Week. And it can help us to see why certain |
| 2:02.6 | details are sometimes put into those images. And so as we start, of course, Holy Week, we should |
| 2:09.5 | start at the entry into Jerusalem, Palm Sunday. That icon represents Christ entering into Jerusalem as a kingly figure, |
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