The Three-headed Holy Trinity Icons from Croatia – on the Margins of Post-Byzantine Popular Piety
The Three-headed Holy Trinity Icons from Croatia – on the Margins of Post-Byzantine Popular Piety

Summary/Abstract: At the very beginning of the 18th century painter Kozma Damjanović painted three unusual icons of the Holy Trinity and donated them to Orthodox churches in three villages in northern Croatia. They feature a non-canonical image of the Holy Trinity – the figure seated on the throne and with three identical heads on three necks, under one triple crown. The aim of this paper is to shed some fresh light on the unique occurrence of these icons in the specific geographical and historical context, whereby the latter is marked by jurisdictional disputes between Orthodox and Catholic Churches in northern Croatia.

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