June 10, 2016 Quick Facts: What Are Icons from Semiprecious Stones? One of the workshops of St. ElisabethConvent that is often overlooked is the one that makes crushed/semiprecious stone icons and landscapes. This is because…
May 20, 2016 8 Miracles of the Icon of the Mother of God of Zhirovichi “Those who pray before your holy icon, O Lady, Are vouchsafed healing and receive the knowledge of the true faith” Everyday we ask the…
May 6, 2016 Icon-painting Facts: Icon of the Life-Giving Spring of the Mother of God Tempera Icon from the Icon Painting Workshop of St.Elisabeth Convent The Life-Giving Spring of the Mother of God is a feast day in the Orthodox Church…
April 26, 2016 Every Christian Is an Icon Painter Iconoclasm has not been an issue for many centuries. Icons are no longer destroyed like they used to be in the 8th and early…
April 1, 2016 The Holy Cross in Iconography: “In This Sign Conquer” The third installment of the talk on iconography with Father Sergious, the head of the icon-painting studio and icon painting school at St. Elisabeth…
March 29, 2016 Iconography of the Mother of God: All Creation Rejoices in Thee The second installment of the talk on iconography with Father Sergious, the head of the icon-painting studio and icon painting school at St….
March 18, 2016 The Phenomenon of the Orthodox Icon: A Theological Perspective On the first Sunday of Great Lent the church commemorates the “Triumph of Orthodoxy” which is also known as the Week of Orthodoxy. This…
February 18, 2016 A Brief History and Different The Seeker of the Lost Icons of the Mother of God Troparion: Seek us who are perishing, O Most Holy Virgin, chasten us not according to our sins, but as you are merciful in your…
February 12, 2016 43 Different Icons, Frescoes and Paintings: The Meeting of Our Lord Icons, Frescoes and Paintings of The Meeting of Our Lord 432-440. Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 7th Century. Santa Maria foris portas in…
November 4, 2015 The History of the Feast Day of the Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan The image of Our Lady of Kazan is said to have come to Russia from Constantinople in the 13th century. After the Tatars…
September 10, 2015 A Few Words on the Technique of Iconography… An Icon is not just a painting with a religious meaning but rather a sacred image, which ascends to the Archetype; it is a…
