Mrs. Helen Phillips , who was called “Eleni” by everyone, worked in the Ladie Philoptohos in a leadership role, Openly and ...

Egg tempera on wood, housed in the finely hand-chased and engraved silver riza or oklad and in the wood and glass icon case ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants, too -- will celebrate Tuesday the taking up of Jesus' mother from earth to heaven. The Western church refers to it as the Solemnity of the ...

CHICAGO -- Some worshipers see a sign from God after a caretaker at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago saw what looked like tears pouring from the Virgin Mary's eyes. The caretaker said she ...

Early Christian icons may have derived some of their stylistic elements from pagan religious portraits, according to some ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...