Our Lady the Gate of Dawn Icono-Graphic | Theotokos Crowned | Woman of the Apocalypse | Red Blue & Gold Design | Orthodox Christian Tank TopOur Lady the Gate of Dawn of Vilnius ( , Vilenska Ostrobramska) is a treasure of Lithuanian Orthodoxy, shared with and venerated by Catholics as well due to the intertwined histories of both churches within Lithuania. It was painted in Kerson in Crimea, then acquired by Algirdas Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania (possibly as a war trophy), who then presented it to his wife Maria of Vitebsk, the only child of the Russian Prince Yaroslav of Vitebsk.

but the end is not yet

coming into being simultaneously

Accordingly

thanking God

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell

like a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber

for it protects the one who wears it

I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come

But who is the man that shall live and not see the death of the impurity of his flesh

" Having said that he did say a prayer for them and let them go

robbed of all higher meaning

Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last” (Mark 15: 34