Mary looks out at the people ... In time, Our Lady of Vladimir became the sign of the Russian Orthodox Church. There are thousands of representations of the Vladimir icon. It is said that there is no ...

The icon is an integral part of not only Russian ... of a temple or a monastery on the palm refers to one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most revered saints – this is how Sergius of Radonezh ...

described the Orthodox theological point of view which equates theology and holy living. The Hodegetria – See how Mary’s hand “points the way.” She tells those who pray with this icon that Jesus is ...

The excuse was an exhibition of Russian Orthodox icons loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Soviet Government through the American Russian Institute. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts had ...