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This category relates to religious Eastern Orthodox icons, icon painting, and icon painters. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Late 14th to early 15th century icon (National Icon Collection 18, British Museum). The Feast of Orthodoxy (or Sunday of Orthodoxy or Triumph of Orthodoxy ) is celebrated on the first Sunday of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church and other churches using the Byzantine Rite to commemorate, originally, only the final defeat of iconoclasm ...
An icon case or kiot (Russian: киот, Ukrainian: кіот, Greek: προσκυνητάρι) is a decorated case (usually foldable) or glass shelf for keeping and displaying religious icons. Etymology
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Find of an icon safe on a fireplace: Icon establishment in again built up church The prince Vasily Kvashnja prays before an icon for protection of Kostroma city against Tatars: Carrying out of an icon in the field of fight Icon fragment: The victory over the enemy has occurred thanks to wonderful protection of an icon of Theotokos of St. Theodore
November 10 (Coptic Orthodox) January 21 (Armenian Apostolic) Kyriakos the Anchorite (also known as Cyriacus the Hermit ) ( Greek : Ὅσιος Κυριακός ὁ Ἀναχωρητής , Hosios Kyriakos ho Anachōrētēs ) was born in Corinth in the year 448.
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In 842, icon veneration became an acceptable practice again in the Orthodox church with the endorsement of Empress Theodora and the death of iconoclast Emperor Theopilos. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Under the later coming threat of Islamic conquest, the Triumph of Orthodoxy on the first Sunday of Great Lent was created to be a reminder of perseverance that led ...