The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

She is an intercessor for us, and the content of prayer addressed to her is a request for her intercession. The Orthodox concept of the Church is the basic reason for the invocation of the Theotokos ...

Once again, through the intercession of the Theotokos, the city was spared. Over the centuries, the icon's fame spread far and wide. Copies of the wonderworking icon began to adorn churches throughout ...

TASS/. The 17th-century Lord Almighty icon lost in the 1920s has been returned to its historical place, the Moscow Cathedral of the Intercession of the Theotokos, commonly known as St. Basil’s ...