For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Artist Miltiadis Afentoulis of Nyack is painting eight Byzantine-style icons depicting the life events of Jesus on the walls of the sanctuary of St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church on ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

The most beautiful Byzantine icons that have been part of the private collection of the Popes for centuries will be displayed in an exceptional exhibition for the Jubilee. From December 16 to February ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

POPE Francis began his first morning as pontiff by praying yesterday at Rome’s main basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary, a day after cardinals elected him the first pope from the Latin Americas to ...

For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...