This past month at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, we had the great blessing to see two of the holy icons on our iconostasis restored, that of our Lord Jesus Christ and his all-pure mother.

(KOLN) - On the walls of St. George Orthodox Church are hand-painted icons of saints ... painted canvases with saints and scenes from Christ’s life. Some of the designs and backgrounds ...

A miraculous icon of Saint Anna, the mother of Mary, will visit Hunterdon County's first Orthodox church ... from the cuff on Saint Anna's left hand and on her left shoulder veil as well.

Sergius was the first Orthodox saint who was also venerated in the Catholic Church. People began speaking about Blessed Xenia in the 1840s. She became a so-called ‘Fool for Christ’ after the ...

The severed hand was ... three-headed Christ, perhaps, had the worst fate of all of the icons. The Roman-Catholic Church condemned such depictions a century earlier than the Orthodox Church ...

The Orthodox ... blessing of the river held at the Thamesside Walk bridge in Sonning. During the ritual, a wooden cross was dangled into the river to signify the baptism of Jesus Christ by St ...

Orthodox Church in Bixby — came together to place a cross made of ice into the river’s waters. The blessing of the waters service celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany, which commemorates the ...

In blessing the Kanawha River ... which refers to the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan. It's a tradition of the orthodox church that every year on Jan. 6 the clergy and people meet at ...

have celebrated as a blessing. Catholics and Protestants usually observe Easter on a Sunday different from the Easter Sunday observed by the Orthodox Church, a tradition of many centuries.