The Rev. Nicholas Jonas says he was in disbelief when he saw tears streaming down the face of a painting of Mary holding the child Jesus ... icon was a miracle, but also a warning from the mother ...

Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ ... of these examples include representations of the Virgin Mary as the "Theotokos" or "Mother ...

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint ... had taken a firm hold in both the Western and Eastern Churches. The Eastern Orthodox Greek Church held to the dormition of Mary.

Sinai icon image ... to also be like Mary is less a result of transgressive gender theory than of mainstream Christian theology. Jesus, after all, calls anyone his mother who does the will of ...

After all, belief in Mary’s perpetual virginity, assumed by the Orthodox ... Jesus wasn’t drinking from a formula-filled bottle in 1st century Palestine. And if the most influential mother ...

5 questions about the global icon of Mary ... the island’s Orthodox inhabitants were forced back to the original political conditions once faced by Mary and Jesus. As the Byzantine Empire ...

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 ...

It was last March that Orthodox Archbishop ... also been invited to carry their own icons of the Virgin Mary along the route. The Kozelshchyna icon of the Mother of God, one of the greatest ...

Since the Roman Calendar Reform of 1969, the Church observes Jan. 1 as the solemnity of Mary, Mother ... 15th-century icon “The Nativity,” prayed by Andrei Rublev. In the Orthodox tradition ...