Jesus Christ, or saints in “real” proportions – Orthodox icons do not depict, they symbolize. Here’s your short guide on how to read and understand Russian icons. There are three forms of ...

A video of Russian President Vladimir Putin presenting an Orthodox icon to military ... Made by Hands” (referred to as the “Icon of our Lord Jesus Christ Not-Made-By-Hands” by the Orthodox ...

Orthodox Christmas – and the long-standing rift between the Russian Orthodox Church and ... when to officially recognize the birth of Jesus Christ dates back centuries. Pope Gregory XIII in ...

Colors are important and symbolic in icons. Russian Orthodox for example use bright ... Both colors are used in the garments of Mary and Jesus at the front of the nave (where the congregation ...

What do Vladimir Lenin, founder of the officially atheist Soviet Union, and Jesus Christ have ... simply replaced religious icons of the Trinity in Russian Orthodox homes after the Bolshevik ...

Essentially the Orthodox ... of Christ and the Mother of God. These are normally flanked by icons of St John the Baptist and of the Saint, or Feast, to which the church is dedicated. In Russian ...

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.

According to the Julian calendar, used by Ethiopians, Russian and some Eastern Orthodox, the birth of ... which observes the birth of Jesus Christ based on the Gregorian calendar, developed ...

After Jesus was crucified on Good ... and in similar icons still used in Greek and Russian Orthodox churches now, the art depicts Christ standing over the broken gates of hell, angels binding ...

May 27 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church ... with the obstruction of bringing the icon" to Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Kalinin was also banned ...