The two-day ceremony for Olga "Arrsamquq" Michael, known as Matushka Olga, brought together those drawn to her message of ...

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated his compatriots on the 555th anniversary of the discovery of the miraculous Zhirovichi Icon of the Mother of God and the 505th anniversary ...

"For many peoples, the image of a mother with a child is a symbol of life that must be protected. Today we presented Pope Leo XIV with a special icon - The Mother of God with the Infant, painted on a ...

Every year on February 10, the feast of St. Haralambos , Bishop of Magnesia, is celebrated with special solemnity in a small Bulgarian town in the northernmost part of the country's Black Sea ...

This is not, however, an observance pulled out of whole cloth. Honoring Mary as the mother of God on Jan. 1 is, in fact, the earliest celebration of this date in the Roman Church. Speaking of Mary as ...

In the “Theotokos” icon, the Mother of God is front and center. She is the largest person in the icon, on her birthing bed. Her Son, wrapped in swaddling clothes, is in the adjacent manger ...

Since 2002 and until recently, the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God Church operated in the city of Turku, with Igumen Nikita (aforementioned Oleg Dobronravov), serving as the rector Molfar ...

View Dormition of the Mother of God Saint Peter and Saint Paul The Head of Saint John the Baptist by Russian School 19 on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Russian School 19. Price ...

View A RUSSIAN ICON OF DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD (USPENIE BOGOMATERY) (18th Century) By Russian School, 18th Century; EGG TEMPERA; 35 x 28 cm (13 3/4 x 11 in.) : 55 x 47 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.); ...

This icon depicts Saints Peter and Alexis watering a tree growing out of the Kremlin walls; the branches of the tree bear icons of Russian saints, and at center is an oval image of the Vladimir Mother ...

Pope Pius XII’s apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus decreed that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and ...

by Chiara Dommarco Kaliningrad (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is not just the expectation of something longed for and far away: it is a foretaste in which we can already find what we want," said Father Denis ...