The Circumcision of Jesus

Origin: Russia
Age: XIXth Century
Composition: Tempera on wood
Measures Cms: 54,5 X 55,9 X 2,

Later they gave him the name Jesus, as the Archangel Gabriel had Announced it. The Church Fathers explain that he was circumcised so that later no one would doubt that He really had assumed human flesh, and the Incarnation of him was not an illusion.