November 5, 2019 Icon of the Mother of God of Kaluga It was 1748. The serfdom in Russia had not been abolished yet, and the peasants were under the control of their masters. However, everyone…
November 2, 2019 Kasperovskaya Icon of the Mother of God There is a great Orthodox sacred object in the Odessa region of Ukraine – the Kasperovskaya Icon of the Mother of God. It is…
October 23, 2019 Icon of the Mother of God of Zograf (Foreteller) The icon was glorified in the Bulgarian Zograf monastery on Mount Athos in the 13th century, during the first attempts to impose a union…
August 31, 2019 Adventures of the Edessa Image We venerate Thy most pure image, O Good One The Church celebrates the feast day of one of the most famous and revered icons…
August 20, 2019 The Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (of Kiev) There are a number of icons depicting Sophia, the Wisdom of God, in the Russian Orthodox Church, namely, in Kiev, Novgorod, Vologda, Tobolsk, Moscow,…
July 31, 2019 What Do Icons Cry for? “Weeping Icons? Get Serious…” That would have been my reaction when I was a Protestant long ago, even when I was an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian….
July 24, 2019 Virgin Hodegetria of Barkolabovo: The Guardian of the Eastern Lands We all know such miraculous icons of Mother of God as Our Lady of Kazan, the Iviron Theotokos or Theotokos of Vladimir. But, probably,…
July 16, 2019 The Secret of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God On July 9th (June 26th by the old calendar) the Church commemorates the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God. This icon of the Holy Virgin,…
June 28, 2019 The Unknown World of the Icon: Some Words on One of the Most Well-Known Theotokos Icons […] We asked the Rev. Sergius Nezhbort, who is the head of the Icon Painting Studio of St Elisabeth Convent, to tell us about…
April 16, 2019 The Unfading Bloom Icon in Russian and Greek Iconography I have previously discussed icons based on the Akathist Hymn to Mary, and today’s example — the Ρόδον τό αμάραντον — Rodon to Amaranton or “Unfading Rose” is…
April 8, 2019 Iconographic Analysis of the Ladder “One can climb – at once – to the 30th step by practicing humility and love. Because, love and humility surpass any virtue”. –…
