Posting this to a discussion thread in the hopes of reaching beyond those who follow my project. It's posted in my Alternates album:
This is what is under the miniature that I posted in my main 365 album. (see below)
I was just able to decipher enough of the Cyrillic inscription to figure out that it is from the Pochayiv (one of various spellings) Lavra, a monastery in Western Ukraine. There is a holy icon there, which is what is pictured on the cloth.
The photo was taken several years ago. I don't want to open up the case again to get at it and take a new picture.
If anyone is able to read this, I'd like to know what the rest of it says. I've tried putting all sorts of typical Blessed Virgin and devotional words and phrases into Google translate, to see if I can match any of it in Russian or Ukrainian. Any help you can give, either translation, or what you know about this type of small fabric religious image would be much appreciated.
Perhaps @ksyu might be able to help? She is a lovely Russian lady who lives in Omsk.
Failing that, Pochayiv Lavra seems to have been a home for a variety of Orthodox Christian religions - are we looking at Greek Orthodox characters here? This could be imagery of Theotokos ("God-bearer" / "Birth-Giver of God" / "the one who gives birth to God.") who appeared to the monks at this particular monastery. Are there any learned Greeks on the 365project site?
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its old-slavonic,used for churches,
What i see is "= the Image of the miraculous icon of the Blessed "Birth-Giver of God"/Virgin of Pochayevsk"
@cejaanderson@steampowered Thanks for mentioning me, dear friends! I would love to help!!!
The language is Old Slavonic which is used in Orthodox scripts. Here is the translation from left to right among the circle: изображение= image, чудотворной = miraculous, иконы = icon, П. that is reduction from пресвятой = Blessed, Богородицы = Virgin, Почаевской = Pochayevskaya.
Here is the article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos_of_Pochayiv
Well, I'm fascinated by this image, I'm not sure about the origin of this relic - was it a kind of warding??? In fact Russians are used to do such kind of things like wearing sign of cross and signs of saints or Holy Virgin on their bodies so it could be some kind of it. It would be delightful to know the story of this treasure! :)
@nyusha@ksyu Thank you both so very much! I am so gad to finally have the translation. In my ignorance, I would not have know that it was Old Slavonic. I agree, Ksenia, I would love to know the story of the miniature portrait and why the image of the Blessed Virgin of Pochayevskaya was behind in in the little locket/frame. Perhaps the person who owned and wore the miniature was devoted to the Virgin or had made a pilgrimage there. I doubt I will ever know, but it's interesting to speculate.
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Failing that, Pochayiv Lavra seems to have been a home for a variety of Orthodox Christian religions - are we looking at Greek Orthodox characters here? This could be imagery of Theotokos ("God-bearer" / "Birth-Giver of God" / "the one who gives birth to God.") who appeared to the monks at this particular monastery. Are there any learned Greeks on the 365project site?
its old-slavonic,used for churches,
What i see is "= the Image of the miraculous icon of the Blessed "Birth-Giver of God"/Virgin of Pochayevsk"
The language is Old Slavonic which is used in Orthodox scripts. Here is the translation from left to right among the circle: изображение= image, чудотворной = miraculous, иконы = icon, П. that is reduction from пресвятой = Blessed, Богородицы = Virgin, Почаевской = Pochayevskaya.
Here is the article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos_of_Pochayiv
Well, I'm fascinated by this image, I'm not sure about the origin of this relic - was it a kind of warding??? In fact Russians are used to do such kind of things like wearing sign of cross and signs of saints or Holy Virgin on their bodies so it could be some kind of it. It would be delightful to know the story of this treasure! :)