The icon shows Jesus – with a beard and long hair – raising his right hand in blessing, while holding a golden book of the Gospels. This Jesus does not have blond hair and blue eyes.

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.

Along with images of Jesus Christ and his mother, the 12 apostles and several prophets, one of the many new icons at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre depicts the three young men from ...

Where God walked and monks pray / Robert S. Nelson -- Early icons of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai / Thomas F. Mathews -- The Sinai Codex Theodosianus : manuscript as icon / Father ...