In many respects, the Easter celebrations of Chicago’s 350,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians ... a painted and framed icon of Christ’s descent into Hades shows Jesus, in golden robes, standing ...

In ancient traditions, he said, the “goal was to help people encounter Jesus. If an Egyptian visited an Orthodox church in Norway … he would still recognize an icon of Jesus Christ.

For about the past 10 years, the Archives Committee has set up shop during the Greek Festival to sell icons — mostly ...

The installation of the icons, which are a sacred tradition ... or God-bearer, in the Orthodox Church, holding the young Jesus while flanked by two angels. The apse, a large semicircular recess ...

But most Eastern Orthodox ... icon of St. George, "the great martyr." "He's dressed in his full military regalia," he said. " He was a soldier." There's the death of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

declined to comment on the icons’ background, and church officials would not allow photographs to be taken. Attempts to reach officials at the Johnstown-based American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox ...

Two Orthodox icons hang either side of the entrance. On the side of the camouflage-patterned tent there is a large, Byzantine-style image of Jesus combined with pictures of Russian soldiers and th ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow ... of all”) icon is the most famous image of Jesus in the world, because the remote Sinai Peninsula ...