Does the Latin Church have icons as Eastern Catholics do?

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I know in the Latin Church we have statues and fancy pictures, but do Latin Catholics have icons as Eastern Catholics do? If so can I have a link please?
 
Well, no “counterpart”. Icons are “windows into Heaven” and there’s a beautiful theology behind them which is distinctly eastern. However, since this is the Universal Church after all, western Catholics can use them and DO use them, in homes and in Churches. The same theology applies, and there are some Latin images which ARE indeed icons, like as the above poster stated.
 
Our Lady of Perpetual Help I believe is the most popular Byzantine Icon in the Roman Catholic Church. Another one of my favorites which obviously has a Byzantine origin is the San Damiano Cross.

I agree with LoyalViews though that the “rules” for creating icons is distinctively Eastern. Roman Catholics can learn about it today and apply it to create Western icons, although I’ve seen some poorly done Western saints. Poorly in the sense that it doesn’t seem, to my untrained eye, consistent with the usual elements of iconography.
 
My Church has Andrey Rublev’s Trinity Icon right on the inside of the Nave. Is this a popular Icon in Roman parishes? Also, in the Sacristy, there are to Icons, one of Christ, I think at the Crowning with Thorns, and another, that escapes me at the moment.

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Usually the Latins have Cretan-school icons. Not my favorite style I must admit.
 
Credo_ergo_sum said:
Usually the Latins have Cretan-school icons. Not my favorite style I must admit.
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The icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is considered to be an early Cretan school work. I have seen this icon most often in Roman Catholic churches where icons are present, but I’m not sure as to whether that is due to style or the theme and name of the icon itself. Blessed Pope Pius IX had given this title to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is possible the popularity of this icons in Latin Church usage is due to that association.



That said, iconography is certainly used supplementally along with Western forms or religious art in the Latin Church, and not in the same way as it is used in Eastern Christianity.
 
I went to the gift shop at the Mt. Carmel monastery/retreat center in Niagara Falls Ontario and they had some awesome Byzantine style icons of Elisha, St. Therese, St. John of the Cross. I had a hard time choosing. 😃
I eventually bought a beautiful icon of the Sacred Heart, also Byzantine style.
 
Where does that sacred heart thing come from anyway? Older Latin iconography doesn’t have it.
 
Credo_ergo_sum said:
Where does that sacred heart thing come from anyway? Older Latin iconography doesn’t have it.
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Devotion really became widespread when Our Lord appeared to St Margaret Mary Alacoque, although the devotion WAS there beforehand, this is when it became more “spread” throughout the Church.
 
ConstantineTG said:
The Ukrainian Church have Byzantinized the Sacred Heart and called it, “Christ, the lover of mankind.” We also do a Moleben as opposed to a Novena.
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Similar on the Ruthenian side. Still often popularly referred to as the Sacred Heart Moleben, we do also pray the Moleben for Jesus, Lover of Mankind. It is perhaps a bit more rare on our side to see an icon similar to the one CTG posted in our churches, but not out of the realm of possibility. We also have at least one parish that I can think of off the top of my head that is specifically consecrated to the Sacred Heart (in Livonia, MI).
 
ByzCathCantor said:
Similar on the Ruthenian side. Still often popularly referred to as the Sacred Heart Moleben, we do also pray the Moleben for Jesus, Lover of Mankind. It is perhaps a bit more rare on our side to see an icon similar to the one CTG posted in our churches, but not out of the realm of possibility. We also have at least one parish that I can think of off the top of my head that is specifically consecrated to the Sacred Heart (in Livonia, MI).
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The icon we have at our parish is a full body one (Jesus is represented from head to toe) but I couldn’t find that quickly on Google images.
 
ConstantineTG said:
The icon we have at our parish is a full body one (Jesus is represented from head to toe) but I couldn’t find that quickly on Google images.
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Perhaps you could take and share a photo … 😉

As I recall, our parish consecrated to the Sacred Heart does not have such an icon in its iconostatis, where the “patronal” icon is typically placed (but my memory could be failing me).

I’ll check again with my metro Detroit sources.
 
ByzCathCantor said:
Perhaps you could take and share a photo … 😉
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I do not know where they keep it, and normally I know where everything is stashed in our parish :D. Perhaps the priest or bishop takes it home. They only bring it out whenever we have the Moleben services.
ByzCathCantor said:
As I recall, our parish consecrated to the Sacred Heart does not have such an icon in its iconostatis, where the “patronal” icon is typically placed (but my memory could be failing me).

I’ll check again with my metro Detroit sources.
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Well, now that you know there is a Byzantinized Sacred Heart, you can have one in your parish 😉
 
ConstantineTG said:
I do not know where they keep it, and normally I know where everything is stashed in our parish :D. Perhaps the priest or bishop takes it home. They only bring it out whenever we have the Moleben services.

Well, now that you know there is a Byzantinized Sacred Heart, you can have one in your parish 😉
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Icons as you no them are uniquely easteasn only in so far a the art represents a frozen time period.
While in the west art developed with prospective.
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The visual is different but no less inspiring.
Go to any a Church in my ancestral Italian home to witness this development.
Living in the Southwest the Lady of Guadalupe adorns many western churches.
This is in evety sense an icon to the Mexican as it represents their convervion to Christainity and their hope for salvavation.
My grandson is an Art student with with roots in the east
His Great Grandparents were from Gallacia I have encouraged him to explore eastern iconogrophy. As. its role in art history is huge.
 
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