The picture they're holding is the most famous of all Orthodox icons, and one particularly connected to Constantinople. Known as the Hodegetria, it shows the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in ...

On a steep hill, at the northeastern end of Kea, is the Holy Monastery of Panagia Kastriani, which was built on the spot ...

POTTSTOWN — The Miraculous Myrrh-Streaming Icon of St. Anna, mother of the Virgin Mary, will be on display at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, 1236 Juniper Street, on Sunday, April 6. The icon will ...

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...

It is on the Feast of the Annunciation, that Orthodox Christians commemorate both ... Mary as he announces the blessing bestowed upon her [Mary] by God (detail). On the right side of the icon the ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian monk prays to the icon of the Virgin Mary that gives its name to the whitewashed complex perched between sky and sea ...