It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

An icon venerated at the Chapel of Our Lady of Damascus in Birgu has been confirmed to be much older than previously believed ...

One man who has campaigned for decades for the icons the British Museum does own to be put on public display is Sir Richard Temple, a renowned specialist and dealer in Orthodox icons for more than 65 ...

Icon of Saint Christopher depicted as “Cynocephalus” from Asia Minor, 1685. Credit: Tilemahos Efthimiadis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. In the long and proud history of Eastern Orthodox Christian ...

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

Some prominent women of the Byzantine Empire ended up as saints, scholars, patrons of both art and religion, ... Irene of Athens, who ruled in her own right and convened the Second Council of Nicaea, ...

Most Christians observe Christmas on December 25th.But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th.For parishioners at the ... The church is filled with icons of the saints.

To answer these questions, he draws on examples from the ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine and Western medieval Christianity, and early modern Catholicism. Building on the work of Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, ...

A Gallery of Byzantine Icons exhibit featuring 12 images by iconographers Marek Czarnecki, Vladislav Andrejev and the late Lu Bro will be open from noon-5 p.m. Dec. 5 at St. Paul’s Episcopal ...

The distance between the Stoclet Madonna and Simone’s image of a petulant, teenage Christ, glared at by his angry father and mildly reproved by his gentle mother, is both astonishing and subtle.

The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul is an important religious holiday for Orthodox Serbs. It marks the end of the Apostles’ Fast, which begins a week after Pentecost. Historically, Orthodox Serbs have ...