In one of the stalls at the historical market in the Archbishop's Palace's Courtyard this week, you find Norwegian Guro selling orthodoks icons.
I have passed by every day, and yesterday I finally made up my mind. A Greek Mary and child icon is now mine (the one Guro is holding).
Icons haven't traditionally played an important part in our Lutheran church, but they are becoming more and more popular. To see more of God we need more than words, and it is well known that a painting can say more than a thousand words.
An icon is not only a religious picture. Through the icons we, as christians, can see and feel the spiritual world. The art of icons are often called "teology in colours" and the icons "windows to eternity".
