Iconographer brings his faith, talent to art project at Greek Orthodox church in Fort Wayne

 

Painting the Soul: Byzantium to El Greco VIDEO

    

Iconographer Tom Clark depicts the patron saint at St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church VIDEO

  

Icon of Fasting, prayer and forgiveness

 

'Major' Byzantine-Era Church With Stunning Mosaic Unearthed In Israel (PHOTO)

 

 An ancient Christian church complete with stunning 1,500-year-old mosaics has been found in Israel. | Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations prior to the construction of a new neighborhood in Israel have turned up the ruins of a 1,500-year-old Christian church with a beautiful mosaic.

Greek Orthodox church nearly done with 10-year effort to paint saints

 

 St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church in Boca Raton is wrapping up its project to paint the interior of the building with Biblical iconography. Artist Laurence Manos has been painting the saints for 10 years for the project. (Amy Beth Bennett / December 19, 2013)

 

BOCA RATON—At Sunday Mass, children point to the freshly painted ceiling. They crane their necks at the larger-than-life icon of Jesus Christ, offering a blessing with his right hand and holding the gospels in his left, on the colorful sanctuary dome.

Art teacher creates icons for Orthodox church

 

GOSHEN, Ind. — Brian Whirledge is bending over a 9-by-12-inch canvas, showing 16-year-old Max Salveson how to make a tracing of Greek letters that stand for "Jesus Christ."

Santa Barbara - Her memory is celebrated on December 4 of the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church and the Artillery of many countries

  

Saint Barbara was the extremely beautiful daughter of a wealthy Greek heathen named Dioscurus, who lived near Nicomedia in Asia Minor.

The Strange and Modern Miracle of St Nicholas’ Icon

 

Holy Trinity hosts miraculous St. Anna icon

POTTSTOWN--The miraculous myrrh-streaming icon of St. Anna, the mother of Mary, the Virgin, will be brought to Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, 1236 Juniper St., at 4 p.m. today.

Virgin Mary Icon In Honolulu Produces Myrrh - Cures Man Of Blindness (VIDEO)

   

Parishioners at a small, "cozy" Russian Orthodox Church in Hawaii say they have a lot to be thankful for.
"We certainly don't deserve it," Father Antole Lyovin says of the church's good fortune.

How to paint an Icon - Icon painting classes

    

The school of Byzantine iconography

Canonization of Two New Saints by the Ecumenical Patriarchate

 

Düsseldorf: Antiquarians Selling Stolen Relics from Greek Monasteries

 

The stolen images from Greek monasteries and churches of Epirus were identified recently in a gallery in Düsseldorf that had them for sale.

GREECE: Religious Icons in Courtrooms Case Rejected by Judges

 

The Hellenic Council of State rejected the request of three people for removal of religious icons and symbols in courtrooms. Greece’s highest administrative court upheld a decision by Thessaloniki court administrators in 2010, that asked for icons to be placed in the northern city’s court rooms.

Biggest haul of looted church icons back in Cyprus

 

 

 

NICOSIA, Cyprus — The largest haul of looted, centuries-old church icons, frescoes and mosaics ever repatriated to Cyprus were officially welcomed Tuesday after a nearly four-decade journey.

Returned stolen artefacts on display at Byzantine Museum

 

 A ceremony was held on Tuesday at the Byzantine Museum next to the Archbishopric in Nicosia to mark the return of 173 religious artefacts stolen from the occupied areas in the north. The items have been repatriated after a long legal battle in Germany’s Munich. 

FT: Soul power and market forces

‘Icons were an attempt to reconcile these views: a summation of a religion that was both sublime and worldly’ 

 

 

Sad to say, I have yet to visit the house of a Russian oligarch. But I’m willing to bet that every single one of them has a small corner of wall space, almost lost amid the curvy Matisses and cross-eyed Picassos, that is dedicated to icons of the Orthodox church. Having grown up in a Greek Orthodox household, I am all too familiar with the convention that says every residence must have its small iconostasis to protect its inhabitants from the malign forces of the world. 

BULGARIA: Orthodox Christians Hail St. Demetrius

A famous St. Demetrius icon from the Vatopediou Monastery in Mount Athos. - See more at: http://www.novinite.com/articles/154942/Orthodox+Christians+Hail+St.+Demetrius#sthash.g6WGNSnw.dpuf

 A famous St. Demetrius icon from the Vatopediou Monastery in Mount Athos.

Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria, Greece and other churches observing the Gergorian calendar are celebrating Saturday the holiday of St. Demetrius.
Known as Dimitrovden in Bulgaria - meaning the Day of St. Dimitar - the feast is an important church and traditional holiday.

Major London exhibition of Russian and Greek Icons in November

St Aleksei, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russia, Mount Athos. Presented to Tsarevich Aleksei and dated 1904 on the reverse, 35.8 x 31 cm. Collection: Jan Morsink Ikonen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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LONDON.- An exceptional exhibition of sixty imp or tant Russian and Greek Icons will be staged by Jan Morsink Ikonen of Amsterdam, one of the leading international specialists in the field, at the Willow Gallery, 40 Duke Street, St. James’s, London SW1, from 23 to 29 November 2013 as part of Russian Art Week, a bi-annual event launched in 2012 by the online arts magazine Russian Art and Culture.