Orthodox Christian art has almost nothing in common with its Catholic and Protestant counterparts despite the shared ...

The tradition of icon painting began to develop simultaneously with the development of Christianity. In the modern era, avant ...

(KOLN) - On the walls of St. George Orthodox Church are hand-painted icons of saints ... painted canvases with saints and scenes from Christ’s life. Some of the designs and backgrounds ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox ... Christ in the dome, there will always either be prophets or archangels telling the story of the coming of Christ. Aside from those mandatory icons, each ...

On this site, we are coexisting with Christian communities: Russian Orthodox ... at the Baptism site; that is particularly symbolic. The Church is full of images that evoke Jesus Christ’s ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

John the Baptist is almost always there alongside him, and sometimes (often in Orthodox icons) there is a small ... aren’t we told that this is a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins? The ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate ... see when you walk in is Christ. And he's in big living color all over the place." A team of artists started painting these icons in 2003, and finished ...

Young men plunged into rivers and lakes across the Balkan country, which is primarily Orthodox, to retrieve crucifixes tossed by priests in ceremonies commemorating the baptism of Jesus Christ.

He settled on religion and, in a great show before his subjects, waded into the Dnipro River in Kyiv in a public baptism ... Christ is the head of the church. Orthodox Christians also venerate ...

This past month at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, we had the great blessing to see two of the holy icons on our iconostasis restored, that of our Lord Jesus Christ and his all-pure mother.