We looked last week at a variation of “Behold the Man” imagery, where Christ was posed against a police line-up wall. My new face of Jesus from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection for this week, acquired on a recent trip to Ukaine, is also linked to contemporary issues. It reminds us of Christ’s parting promise to be with his followers “always, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20, KJV).” In The Christ of Our Freedom, Ukrainian Iconographer Sviatoslav Vladyka depicts Jesus as one of the protestors in the February 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Kiev, Ukraine, which brought down the corrupt regime of Pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych. Vladyka was at the anti-government barricades in the central square of the Ukrainian capital during those tense days and created this homage to the “Heavenly Hundred” killed, when security forces armed with assault rifles fired on the crowds. In Vladyka’s variation on the iconographic prototype of the Savior Made Without Hands, the face of Christ is partly concealed by a blood-soaked mask, protecting him from tear gas. The halo around his head is formed from bullet shell casings, embedded in a wooden shield of a kind used by the demonstrators, also smeared with blood. This harrowing image of Christ as a hero of our time can be found in the gallery of the New Iconography of Lviv page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)