Elijah and the Fiery Chariot
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Romanian Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostle Paul and St. Lucy the Martyr, Syracuse, Sicily
The icon faithfully follows the narrative in 2 Kings 2:11-14 a fiery chariot with fiery horses takes Elijah up to Heaven while his disciple Elisha cries out, "My father! My father!" Elisha then takes Elijah's cloak, which had fallen from the chariot, and strikes it on the River Jordan, causing the river to divide.
The Greek words above the chariot mean "the fiery ascent of the prophet Elijah."
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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.