July 25, 2017 How the “The Three Hands” Icon Came to Be The story of the cut off hand The base of Icon of the Mother of God of “The Three Hands” is a traditional image…
July 10, 2017 Expressing Time in Orthodox Iconography To be able to understand icons it is necessary to know how people of the Middle Ages perceived and understood the concept of time….
July 6, 2017 Short Facts about the Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir On July 6 1480, a highly venerated icon of the Other of God was brought from the ancient city of Vladimir to Moscow. Grand…
June 29, 2017 The Miracle of Kefallonia: The Snakes that Venerate Holy Icons In a tiny Greek village in the south of Kefallonia, a miracle occurs every year after the feast of the Transfiguration (Aug 6). Around…
June 23, 2017 The Miracles of the “Axion Estin” Icon of the Mother of God The Theotokos is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the Abbess of all the monasteries on Mount Athos. She oversees the welfare of the…
June 19, 2017 The History of the “Pimenovskaya” Icon of the Mother of God The iconographic type of the “Pimenovskaya” icon of the Mother of God is Odigitria. For the first time, the icon was mentioned in the…
June 16, 2017 A Brief History of the Tabynsk Icon of the Mother of God The Tabynsk icon of the Mother of God is known for its many miracles. The icon first appeared in the second half of the…
May 31, 2017 The Iconography of Christ “Christ is the icon of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation” (Col 1:15) It is only fitting that the first icon…
May 25, 2017 Iconographic Analysis of the Ascension Icon: An Icon of the Church Before Pentecost Forty days after Christ’s resurrection, He was taken up into the Heavens before the disciples, and so forty days after Easter, is the Feast…
May 18, 2017 The Inexhaustible Chalice Icon: Help in Battling Alcoholism Russian icons are, for the most part, essentially copies of prototypes that appeared in different times and places. Some of the prototypes are very…