Ecclesia and evangelist portrait s. A number of biblical passages, including those describing Christ as a " bridegroom " led early in the history of the church to the concept of the church as the Bride of Christ, which was shown in art using a queenly personification.

John the Evangelist | Saint John, evangelist portrait from the Book of Mulling, Irish, late 8th century

File: Coronation Gospels-St John. png | Another Carolingian evangelist portrait in Greek / Byzantine realist style, probably by a Greek artist, also late 8th century.

* Sterick, Robert D. " The plan of the evangelist portrait pages in the ' Book of Mulling '.

Folio 85v of the Ada Gospels contains the evangelist portrait of Luke

The book follows a fairly standard format in which each separate Gospel book opens with a evangelist portrait of the author and a large decorated initial, or incipit, at the beginning of the text.

File: MIMI 76F1 NS 161V 162R. jpg | Symbol facing evangelist portrait at the start of the Gospel ; Egmont Gospels

The evangelist portrait of Luke

The manuscript once contained evangelist portraits for all four Evangelists, preceding their gospel, a usual feature of illuminated Gospel books, and at least three further pages of narrative scenes, one following each portrait page.

In the opening shown at the start of Matthew the evangelist portrait to the left is in a consistent adaptation of Italian style, probably closely following some lost model, though adding interlace to the chair frame, while the text page to the right is mainly in Insular style, especially in the first line, with its vigorous Celtic spirals and interlace.

The other surviving evangelist portrait of John includes roundels with Celtic spiral decoration probably drawn from the enamelled escutcheons of hanging bowls.

The traditional symbols of the Evangelists were often included in the images, or especially in the Insular tradition, either given their own additional images on a separate page, or used instead of an evangelist portrait.

Image: RossanoGospelsFolio121rStMark. jpg | The earliest surviving evangelist portrait, in the Rossano Gospels, Mark writing on a scroll, C6th.

The evangelist portrait and Incipit to Matthew from the Stockholm Codex Aureus, one of the " Tiberius group ", show the Northumbrian Insular and classicising continental styles that combined and competed in early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

A different mixture is seen in the opening from the Stockholm Codex Aureus ( mid-8th century, left ) where the evangelist portrait to the left is in a consistent adaptation of Italian style, probably closely following some lost model, though adding interlace to the chair frame, while the text page to the right is mainly in Insular style, especially in the first line, with its vigorous Celtic spirals and interlace.

Yet the same artist almost certainly produced both pages, and is very confident in both styles ; the evangelist portrait of John includes roundels with Celtic spiral decoration probably drawn from the enamelled escutcheons of hanging bowls.

Even though the evangelist as depicted in the New Testament doesn't match the patristic description of Luke, the traditional view is still argued today.

In traditional depictions, such as paintings, evangelist portraits and church mosaics, St. Luke is often accompanied by an ox or bull, usually having wings.

The word evangelist comes from the Koine Greek word ( transliterated as " euangelion ") via Latinised " Evangelium ", as used in the canonical titles of the four Gospels, authored by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ( also known as the Four Evangelists ).

The manuscript has two evangelist portraits ( St. Mark and St. Luke ), a carpet page, initial pages for Mathew (" Lib "), Mark ( initium ), and Luke ( Quoniam ), a Chi Rho monogram page, and a page with the Four evangelist symbols.

Luke the evangelist.

* Julia appears in Taylor Caldwell's novel Dear and Glorious Physician, as the unhappy wife of Tiberius and a seductress of Lucanus, the young evangelist St. Luke.

According to his website, Mr. Baxter became intensely interested in Bible prophecy at the age of 20, when a visiting evangelist taught that the four beasts of the book of Revelation, chapter four, were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The two artists who produced the evangelist portraits were both heavily influenced by Byzantine models, but the style of the portraits of Saints Mark and Luke seems to derive from Byzantine enamelled plaques rather than manuscripts.

Ideally, an evangelist is free from administrative responsibilities in the church in order to allow them to be fully responsive to the Holy Spirit.

The most prominent reference to the term evangelist in the denomination's literature is found in its Articles of Faith, derived from the Wentworth letter, a statement by Joseph Smith in 1842 to a Chicago newspaper editor that the church believes in " the same organization that existed in the primitive church ", including " evangelists ".

A former English plumber turned evangelist who lived simply and read nothing but the Bible from the time his wife taught him to read, Wigglesworth traveled around the world preaching about Jesus and performing faith healings.

His father was a soldier, sheriff, and photographer from New York, while his mother, May Venzor, from El Paso, Texas, was an evangelist and lifelong soldier in the Salvation Army.

During the 1980s, she played Ruth Perkins, the mother of Allison Perkins, who had kidnapped the newborn baby of heroine Viki Lord Buchanan under orders from phony evangelist and mastermind criminal Mitch Laurence.

The wolf drives a Harley Davidson motorcycle, the first little pig is an aspiring guitarist, the second is a cannabis smoking, dumpster diving evangelist and the third holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University.

Saint Mark ( not to be confused with the evangelist ) was Pope from 18 January 336 to 7 October 336, the date of his death.

For example, American evangelist Billy Graham came from a fundamentalist background, but parted company with that movement because of his choice, early in his ministry ( 1950s ), to cooperate with other Christians.

The settlement was founded in 1726 by Colonial English Quakers from Chester County led by entrepreneur and evangelist John Wright.

The evangelist in some churches is one that travels from town to town and from church to church, spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

He has written that on December 21, 1973, he traveled by charter bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to attend a " miracle service " conducted by evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman.

Roger's ghost asks him to take care of his daughter Dora, a devout and popular television evangelist, whom he wants to spare from embarrassment.

Tkach had worked closely with former church executive Stanley R. Rader prior to Rader's retirement from active service with the Church, and had been ordained to the ministerial rank of evangelist along with Rader and Ellis LaRavia in 1979.

Soon he was barred from campaigning in Methodist congregations, so he became an independent evangelist.

His father was a Presbyterian evangelist, and editor of the Charleston Christian Observer from 1826 to 1845, of the Richmond ( VA ) Watchman and Observer from 1845 to 1856, and of The Central Presbyterian from 1856 to 1860.

Taylor obtained spiritual and other advice from the evangelist Kilari Anand Paul.

In addition to becoming a popular Christian evangelist, Finney was involved with the abolitionist movement and frequently denounced slavery from the pulpit.

Sunday had been an ardent champion of temperance from his earliest days as an evangelist, and his ministry at the Chicago YMCA had given him first-hand experience with the destructive potential of alcohol.