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<p>[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 391402, member: 7826"]Our knee-jerk impression was that it was Lao Tzu. But yes, it's almost certainly meant to depict some Christian saint. Which one? Your choice. Another story: </p><p><br /></p><p>Many years ago, a deeply religious friend asked one of us if he could do some art restoration work on an icon at our friend's Eastern Orthodox church. Might be a little out of his wheelhouse, he told our friend, wouldn't want to mess up some sacred relic, but I'll take a look at it. The friend brought over an oil portrait on a wooden panel, about 18x12", the saint's name in inch-high Cyrillic letters across the bottom. All he wanted done was to have the name of a different saint lettered there. Waitaminnit -- you can't have a portrait of this guy that your congregation prays to and just say Saint Eusebius is now Saint Nektarios, can you? Oh sure, no problem, he replies -- nobody knows what he really looked like anyway, he can be anybody.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 391402, member: 7826"]Our knee-jerk impression was that it was Lao Tzu. But yes, it's almost certainly meant to depict some Christian saint. Which one? Your choice. Another story: Many years ago, a deeply religious friend asked one of us if he could do some art restoration work on an icon at our friend's Eastern Orthodox church. Might be a little out of his wheelhouse, he told our friend, wouldn't want to mess up some sacred relic, but I'll take a look at it. The friend brought over an oil portrait on a wooden panel, about 18x12", the saint's name in inch-high Cyrillic letters across the bottom. All he wanted done was to have the name of a different saint lettered there. Waitaminnit -- you can't have a portrait of this guy that your congregation prays to and just say Saint Eusebius is now Saint Nektarios, can you? Oh sure, no problem, he replies -- nobody knows what he really looked like anyway, he can be anybody.[/QUOTE]
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