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Early icons of St. Fidgeta are rare, since Byzantine art does not permit the depiction of a restless saint [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 18].
The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" speculate what could happen in an imaginary encounter between the Pope and President Johnson and of the gifts they could give each other, including a Byzantine icon of LBJ [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 31].
Christian Iconography is the science of the description, history, and interpretation of the traditional representations of God, the saints and other sacred subjects in art. Almost from the beginning the Church has employed the arts as potent means of instruction and edification. The object of iconography is to give the history of the various representations, to note their prevalence or absence at some particular time or in some particular place, to compare those of different lands and different periods, to explain the personal or historical, and to interpret the symbolical. Studied thus, they have an important historical and dogmatic interest, as they attest the unity of ecclesiastical tradition and the faith of the ages in which they were produced.
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