Ukrainian
Icon "Doors of Mercy" brought to Rome for Jubilee
(Vatican
Radio) Pope Francis requested the ancient Ukrainian icon "Doors of
Mercy" to be brought to the Vatican for the opening of the Jubilee Year of
Mercy. This icon, which combines both Western and Eastern traditions, is
particularly symbolic and encourages all Christians to unity and peace for the
sake of charity.
The
Icon was met at the airport by the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Holy See,
Tatyana Izhevska; and Ambassador of Poland to the Holy See, Piotr
Novina-Konopka; and representatives from the Vatican.
The
image of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, which dates from the seventeenth
century, comes from the cathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the
Polish city of Jaroslaw. The icon, which takes its name from the Byzantine
Lenten liturgical text, "Open the Doors of Mercy to me, O Mother of
God." is considered miraculous and was given a crown by St. John Paul II
in 1996.
A
copy of of the icon is also found in the Argentinian church belonging to Pope
Francis' former spiritual director, Ukrainian Catholic priest Fr. Stephan
Chmil.
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