纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 067正信凯旋圣像（7）（在线收听）

It shows us the Empress Theodora and that great restoration of 843. She stands beside the Hodegetria image of the Virgin and Child, and with her is her child, the boy Emperor Michael, both of them wearing elaborate Imperial crowns. Below them, in the bottom of the picture, stand a line of 11 saints and martyrs, crowded together as if they're posing for a group photograph, some of them holding icons in their hands like prizes that they've just been awarded. Any viewer around 1400 would have known at once that all these saints had suffered in the great struggle to re-establish the use of icons. All of them are neatly labelled, with their names written in red paint. My favourite is the one on the far left. She is St Theodosia, the only woman in the group and a feisty nun, who was put to death essentially for killing a policeman. She saw an Imperial guard climbing a ladder to remove an image of Christ from the entrance to the Imperial palace, she pushed away the ladder, and he fell to his death. Needless to say, she was promptly executed.

它呈现了西奥多拉皇后与公元八四三年的伟大复兴。她站在圣母与圣婴的赫得戈利亚圣像旁，身边是儿子米海尔三世。两人都穿着精致的皇家长袍。画面下部是站成一行的圣人与殉道者，他们紧挨在一起，如同在合照，有的手里拿着圣像，仿佛在展示刚被授予的奖章。在一四年前后，任何看到这幅画的人都会立刻知道，这些都是在圣像复兴战中受难的圣徒。每个人头顶都用红笔清楚地标示了姓名。我个人最喜欢的要数站在最左端的那位，圣西奥多西娅，这群人中唯一的女性。她是一位急性子的修女，因杀死一名皇家侍卫而被处死。当时她看到对方爬上梯子，要?移走皇宫入口处的一张基督圣像，于是一把推开了梯子，使他跌下来摔死了。她自然很快被处以死刑。