I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars of Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.

We're through prayer and meditation.

The rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.

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This is day 177.

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scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art will be reflecting on.

Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fourth luminous mystery, the

transfiguration, with help from an icon entitled The Savior's Transfiguration written by Theophanes the Greek.

Okay, now brief introduction to our artist and the icon. Today we have a Byzantine-style icon

that has traditionally been attributed to Theophanes

the Greek. And it exemplifies late 14th to early 15th century Russian iconography,

blending spiritual intensity with dramatic composition. So Theophanes the Greek was a Byzantine master who reshaped Russian

medieval art and he was one of the most influential iconographers of the 14th century.

He was born in Constantinople. While at one point of this icon was confidently attributed to theophanese, there is

some debate now due to some stylistic inconsistencies with his other works. So the timeline

of the writing of this icon, right in the 14th to 15th century century was a time of a final flowering of Byzantine

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