November 15, 2016 5260 2 The Meaning of Objects Held by Saints in Orthodox Icons Iconography can be an extremely concise way of communicating the Faith. Therefore, what the Saints hold in their hands in portrait icons help in…
November 11, 2016 139 0 The Icon of the Mother of God “Ozeryanskaya” Not far from Kharkov, in the Transfiguration Monastery of Kuryazhanka, there is a miraculous image of the Mother of God called “Ozeryanskaya”. According to…
November 7, 2016 175 0 The Icon of the Mother of God “The Joy of All Who Sorrow” The Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” is a Theotokos image without a single compositional pattern which is encountered in many versions….
November 4, 2016 69 0 The Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan: The Liberation from an Invasion According to tradition, the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan arrived to Russia from Constantinople in the 13th century. After the Tatars…
October 28, 2016 225 0 The Icon of the Mother of God the Grower of Crops The icon of the Mother of God called “the Grower of Crops” was painted with the blessing of elder Ambrose, a hieroschemamonk from the…
October 26, 2016 651 0 The Miraculous Icon of The Mother of God of Iveron (Panagia Portraitissa) Apolytikion Hymn of Panagia Portaitissa. First Tone Your sacred icon O Lady Portaitissa, which has come by the sea, is wondrous in your flock,…
October 20, 2016 168 0 The Pskov-Caves Tenderness Icon of the Mother of God According to the story, the Tenderness icon of the Mother of God was painted in 1521 by hieromonk Arsenius Khitrosh as a copy of…
October 11, 2016 432 0 Why Do the Saints Never Smile on Icons? There are over 400 occurrences of the word “joy” in the Bible, most of them referring to what awaits those who become close to…
September 20, 2016 105 0 Iconographic Analysis of the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos The Great Feasts serve to tell us the story of the Incarnation, which has its climax in the center of the year with the…