Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on ...

St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox Church in York chose St. Thecla as one of their icons because she is a woman saint. Pier says there are far too few women saints in churches and honored in ...

Sergius was the first Orthodox saint ... was surrounded by saints. Her peers did not socialize with her and made fun of her because of her blindness, and so she played with icons, confiding ...

the Serbian Orthodox priest filled virtually every square inch of interior wall and ceiling with icons, sacred paintings depicting the life of Christ and the angels and saints. There are hundreds ...

Eliel had made his first trip to Victoria since November for the Sunday of Orthodoxy and Procession of Icons. About 20 members of All Saints Orthodox Mission came together March 8 for worship and ...

The icons, made of small, irregularly-shaped pieces of colored glass tile, depict Orthodox saints and scenes from the Bible. They're valued both as artwork and as symbols and teaching devices -- a ...

He mainly works with Greek Orthodox sanctuaries but has also installed icons for Serbian ... the Virgin Mary and dozens of saints. It’s been compared to the Sistine Chapel, Diamantopoulos ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on ... The church is filled with icons of the saints. "Saint Damian was known as a healer, a physician who did it all for free," said Father ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the ...