“Icons have two purposes,” said Father John Hondros, the presiding parish priest of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. “One is that they are vessels of grace that bring the reality ...

Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox Church said.

Thousands of dollars worth of religious artwork, called icons, line the walls of St. John the Baptist Antiochian Orthodox Church in Post Falls. But it was a $20 mass-produced picture of the Virgin ...

a priest at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. The icons are not worshipped, but rather venerated during services, or honored for their sanctity. Tudora has collaborated with Grygorenko ...

It was an Orthodox icon, he explained ... and approach the oldest icon in the museum. St. John the Baptist (circa 1450 CE) looks down from a warped wooden panel about four feet tall, the paint ...

But in time, these white walls will be adorned with additional icons created by a local ... The consecration service of St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church begins at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb ...

in the Orthodox world. Church of Decapitation of John the Baptist. Northwest pier. Background: north wall & icon screen. Aug. 15, 2017. William Brumfield The north and south walls are divided ...

A Greek inscription on the stone casque contains a reference to June 24 – the date on which John the Baptist is believed ... revered by the Eastern Orthodox Church, foretold the coming of ...

told several hundred Orthodox faithful. For more than a decade, the icon — which was spirited out of the country after the Bolshevik revolution — hung over the desk of the Pope. John Paul had ...