Saints Petru and Pavel.
SFINŢII PETRU ŞI PAVEL

Summary/Abstract: Saints Petru and Pavel. Saints Petru and Pavel on 29th of june, after a fast called in the ancient times the one of cincizecime there is celebrated the holiday of the saints apostles petru and pavel. In the rural tradition, this day kept with much splendour was called sân-petru of summer because the saint petru was considered the protector of the farmers. Also then it was practised the custom of mosi of sân-petru. Many of the folk stories have as hero the saint petru, who it is said he had many happenings while he walked with the god on the earth. But although from this point of view saint petru has a pre-eminence of the holiday, however the folk transylvanian iconography did not elaborated an individual icon of the saint but the common model accepted reveals the imagistic quintessence of the old tradition: saint petru and saint pavel are painted to the right and to the left of a church; and the story of this church is the same old as the christian faith ... A roman medal representing the two apostles dated from the 2nd or 3rd century a. D. And come from the vatican museum; it is important to remark the fact that also later the physionomic characteristics of the two saints are kept at the icons. Why are the two apostles represented together from the beginning? Because as they would be named in the church tradition, they are “the great of the apostles”. This image of pillars of the church would be drawn beginning with the synod from jerusalem in the year 48 when, according to the concordia apostolorum, petru represented the church of the law (old) and pavel the church of the grace (being apostle of the peoples). In this respect there are also the words of apostle pavel: “the gospel was given to me for the ones not cut around, as to petru the ones cut around” (ga. 2, 7). In a roman sculpture of the 5th century, petru and pavel, the great of the apostles are represented with christ between them. In the ambiance of the byzantine traditional culture, in the romanian provinces would circulate this representation of the saints apostles having in the middle the ark of the church as a waked icon of the “the synod of the saints petru and pavel”. The church ark wears in it the holy eucharist and god is blessing. The meaning of the icon is the one that the apostles show christ: his church and his body: holy eucharist. This image is compliant to the knowledge of orthodox faith regarding the church: “the god discovery shows us that the saviour is the head of the church, and the church is his body, as the saint apostle pavel teaches us”; also the fact that: “the christ’s body or the god’s body, which the saint parents called the mysterious body of the god is the viewed sign of our salvation, that is the sign of the embodiment of the god’s son. The subtlety of the folk iconography, developed in the liturgical ambiance, a embodied very good this truth of faith. So that in a north transylvanian manuscript of the 17th century fou

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