In the fusion of images and ideas a language which joins tegether the East and the West
A route of deep spirituality proposed by a Roman exhibition of Russian icons from L' Osservatore Romano of 2-3.05.1997

From a few decades the Europeans have cultivated a growing interest for the Russian icon. We've got to figure out if it's just an esthetic inclination or the will to comprehend the spirituality and the oriental teologies.

It's clear that the ecumenicalism solicited by the church of the Concilio Vaticano II is now paying off. Sooner or later the people will meet, Kant said with a cosmopolitan foresight.

The reasons of the ecumenical Christianity are more serious and deeper than those of the Illuministic rationalism and this does well to hope.

Setting itself in alternative with the spoken words and the formulas of the Latin church, the oriental iconography captures and influences the believers with the power of the images and the representations aiming at the meaning of faith, letting the soul communicating with God in meditation and prayers.