Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on ...

The present location of the Eastern Orthodox community was built in ... people who I thought wouldn't be interested in a weeping icon of the Virgin Mary but who came, and came in faith, and ...

For over a century previously, emperors had forbidden images of Christ, the Virgin Mary and the Saints ... the Byzantine Empire. Icons are still used in the Eastern Orthodox Church to focus ...

a group of parishioners spent the night guarding the Virgin Mary icon, saying they will fight to keep it right where it is. However, the leaders of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago have ...

“It’s common throughout the Orthodox ... the weeping icon. “Some people say this is a sign,” he said. “I stop short of that. I would just rather say that the Virgin Mary is talking ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events ... Follow @RachelSpacek on Twitter. About Eastern Orthodox Church It is one of the three main Christian ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants ... to it as the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Eastern church calls it the Feast of the Dormition of ...

On September 5, worshippers took part in an annual procession in which an icon of ... tomb of the Virgin Mary, back to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. Orthodox nuns ...