Christ is Risen!
 

I heartily congratulate all a Happy Easter !
Truly He is Risen !
Truly He is Risen !
Truly He is Risen !

- " The Resurrection of Christ - Descent into Hell . " Fresco of the monastery church choir in Constantinople. XIV century.

- "The Resurrection of Christ - Descent into Hell".
Icon of Andrei Rublev, 1408-1410.

- Easter service at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Nice:

- The Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Nice in a festive lighting:

Amazing that the term "resurrection" - etymologically, is refracted in the Slavonic language was a sense of fire and light from the root "Cres" - "steels" (flint, a lighter), "steels" (to make fire, light).
Therefore, the "resurrection" - literally - "fire", "inflammation".

- "The Descent into Hell."
Fresco of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, 1040 - the beginning of 1050.

- "The Descent into Hell."
Fresco of the Saviour Cathedral Preobrazhenekogo Mirozhsky Monastery in Pskov.
About 1140.

- "The Descent into Hell."
Fresco of the Church of St. George, Kurbinovo, Macedonia, 1191.

- "Christ the righteous displays of hell."
Jaime Serra (Jaume Serra), Convent Santo Sepulchro, Zaragoza, Spain.
XIII century.

- "The Descent into Hell."
Duccio di Buonisenya (upom. 1278-1319).

- "Christ the righteous displays of hell." Fresco by Andrea da Firenze Bonaiuti (Andrea Bonaiuti da Firenze) Church of Santa Maria Novella , Florence, 1365-1368 . (Under the feet of Christ dwell gates of hell and the devil , first to Jesus stretched out his hand , Adam , followed by Abel with a lamb in his hands, etc.)
- "Christ takes from hell souls of the righteous ." Fresco by Fra Angelico (Fra Angelico) Dominican convent of San Marco, Florence, 1437-1446 .

- Icon of the Resurrection.
Pskov, XV century.
Pskov museum.

- "The Descent into Hell."
Dionysius.
Icon of the cathedral Ferapontov Monastery.
Around 1502-1503.
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

- "Descent into Hell".
Fresco Dionysius.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Ferapontovo.
1495-1504.

- "The Resurrection of Christ - Descent into Hell."
Icon of Chernokulova village near Rostov Veliky.
XV century.
Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve.

- "The Descent into Hell."
Novgorod school.
XV century.