Churches and cemetery

Morning orthodox mass, all in singing form became part of our morning hygienne, and helps us to tune into common feeling with locals. Brother Ovidio and father Cleope. At the breakfast together we discuss problems of body and soul, the holy Script and the content of word and letter. Father, who paradoxically is younger than us, is very tolkative, and I think we amuse him by our questions. In gestures oh his hands, and explanation of the blessings the cyrilic letter are still contained,

Jesus Christus is represented by IICX. Our thoughts concerning mutual emotional attitude among an icon and its meaningfull gesture s support each other, especially during watching giant fresco decorations of the church, refectory and both small chapells. We feel surrounded by iconography of latino-cyrilic writings and we are trying to decode stories painted on the walls. Both of our hosts individually answer our question about their decission for „their“ letter choose for the one, similar in shape to omega. Because it was strong impuls for beginning and ending, alpha and omega, contained also in the aureola of Jesus Christ. Symbol =signal,code=way,icons=story,idol=example, these are some possible views and relations in watching this environment, full of hidden meanings.

During our journey to Maramures we stoped in Sapante, village with local tradition of decorated crosses is confronting private Later we found ourselves in a discussion life iconogrphy with orthodox iconography of the church. Later we found ourselves in nearby pilgrimage area,

discussing the sense of giant oak wooden structure of the tower of the church, in the context of contemporary consuming society.During the lunch we became pilgrims , speaking at symposium about religion.

Later on, passing through villages of Maramures area we were excited by traditionally decorated oak wood gates, in combinations with blossoming apple and cherry trees, we smelled chassidic past of this „island“, place which even without any water context, protected the jewish minority for several centuries. Today maybe mental island of the community.