Quiz on Saints’ Lives

Tradition says that the Evangelist Luke was the first in the world to paint an icon of the Mother of God holding the Infant in his arms on a board from the table where Jesus Christ and His Immaculate Mother dined with the righteous Joseph. And then, having painted two more icons of the Most Holy Mother of God, wishing to know whether it pleased the Mother of God, brought them to Her. The Mother of God, seeing her image, said with her pure lips: ‘The grace of Him who was born of Me and Mine be with these icons.’
Several icons of the Mother of God are attributed to his authorship, including the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (kept in the Tretyakov Gallery), the Czenstochowska Icon of the Mother of God, the Sumela Icon of the Mother of God (kept in a temple in the village of Kastanya, Greece) and the Kikkos ‘Mother of God’ or ‘Merciful’ (kept in the Monastery of Kikkos, in Cyprus), the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, as well as icons of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
On church shrines Apostle Luke also depicted repentant sinners in various parables (The Prodigal Son, The Publican and the Pharisee, The Lost Sheep, The Lost Drachma, The Merciful Samaritan, etc.).