Icon "Vernicle" 13x15 cm, wooden frame, under glass

Vernicle is the only icon depicting Jesus just as a person, as a person with a face. Other iconic images of Jesus show Him doing some action or provide guidance on Its attributes. Here He sits on the throne (so He Is the King), that He blesses, that He holds in his hands a book and points to the words written there. The multiplicity of images of Jesus theologically correct, but can hide the essential truth of Christianity: salvation comes through the person of Jesus, through Jesus as such, and not through its individual actions or attributes. According to Christian teaching, God sent us His Son as the only way to salvation. He is the beginning and the end, alpha and omega. He saves us by the fact of its eternal presence in the world. We follow him not because of some obligation or reasoning or customs, but because He calls us. We love not for something, but simply for what He is, i.e. about the same, as we are not always explainable by the love of the elect or chosen of our hearts.