The Sunday of Orthodoxy is both a theological and historical
celebration. The final end of the Iconoclastic controversy ended in 843AD when
the Empress Theodora, the first Sunday of Great Lent, officially restored Holy
Icons to their rightful place within the Church. The Church had earlier in
787AD defended the truth of Orthodoxy present in the Holy Icons as a witness to
the Truth of the Incarnation of God in Jesus Christ. Thus, the first Sunday of
Great Lent has been a dual celebration of truth and history ever since!
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