One Landscape and one Linguistic problem

Yuri Pautov

Now I have a problem.
I want to share with you a photo which I've made in Divnogorie ('wonderful hills' in Russian)
A photo of a church that was cut out in rocks in 12 century by Greeks.
The problem is that I dont know how to translate the name of the church correctly.
I may write: 'Sicilian Mother of God' or 'Sicilian Theotokos' or even 'Sicilian Our Lady'?
Can you help me?
However that may be, here is a photo:

The rocks are cretaceous.
Some other photos of this place can be found at my site

http://pautov.viplast.ru/index.php?id=164

We, with my wife Galina went there to see a special project 'A night in Divnogorie' We heard cossack's chorus on the top of the hill (396 steps!), visited the Church made in the rock.
And then (at 1 hour) we saw an operetta right on the street - near the live decorations.
http://pautov.viplast.ru/index.php?id=123
Then we slept a pair of hours in our car (what an adventure!) and in the morning I took some photos of the beautiful places around (and this one too)


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Spasibo,
Yuri

DonRicklin

Realy nice image Yuri. Your translation might also be 'Our Lady of Sicily'. That is how many such churches are named in English, AFAIK.




Don

DaddyO

Yuri, wonderful dramatic image. Very nice.

Finding an answer to your question is pretty tough, was thinking it
couldn't be too hard. Silly me.

I came up with this in part. Could be just Our Lady?

From... http://www.russia-ic.com/culture_art/museums/147/

read down in page is this.

"12th century, gave shelter to Christian schema-monks from the Greek island of Sicilian. The monks brought the wonderworking Sicilian icon of Our Lady, which healed a whole nearby town of Ostrogorzhsk from cholera in the 19th century."

They didn't really provide a place name.

Further looking found this. Our Lady of the Sign see article.

http://fullhomelydivinity.org/articles/advent%20saints.htm


Likely I really ended up being unable to help you find an answer, but it
has been interesting for me to learn this much none the less.
Michael

Yuri Pautov

DaddyO wrote:

Yuri, wonderful dramatic image. Very nice.

Finding an answer to your question is pretty tough, was thinking it
couldn't be too hard. Silly me.

I came up with this in part. Could be just Our Lady?

From... http://www.russia-ic.com/culture_art/museums/147/

read down in page is this.

"12th century, gave shelter to Christian schema-monks from the Greek island of Sicilian. The monks brought the wonderworking Sicilian icon of Our Lady, which healed a whole nearby town of Ostrogorzhsk from cholera in the 19th century."

They didn't really provide a place name.

Further looking found this. Our Lady of the Sign see article.

http://fullhomelydivinity.org/articles/advent%20saints.htm


Likely I really ended up being unable to help you find an answer, but it
has been interesting for me to learn this much none the less.
Michael

Thank you so much, Michael!