Holy Icons

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 8 ***This Icon Depicts Saint John and Prochorus in the Cave of Patmos The final earthly moments of Saint John the Theologian, as recounted by tradition, are shrouded in an aura of profound reverence and mystery. At over a...

Feast Day/Commemorated: March 25 The Annunciation: Gabriel's Message to Mary "In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and...

Christ's Holy Resurrection / Harrowing of Hades (The Icon of Pascha) For Orthodox Christians, Holy Week serves as a profound period of theological education, with each day offering unique spiritual lessons beyond what can be learned from books. The...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 30 (3 Holy Hierarchs Saint Basil the Great Born in 330 AD to a remarkably devout family in Caesarea, Saint Basil the Great received a premier classical education in Athens—where he began a lifelong friendship with...

This celebrated panel, known as the Kahn Madonna, draws its spiritual and formal authority from the Hodegetria—the "She Who Shows the Way"—one of the most venerable iconographic types in the Orthodox tradition. In this sacred arrangement, the...

This icon beautifully written in the 13th c. in Constantinople portrays the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary alongside her Son and our God, Jesus Christ. Sometimes, angels overshadow her in these depictions, a powerful visual link to the Ark of...

Commemorated on June 29On this most radiant day, the Holy Church piously gathers to offer hymns of praise to the Holy, Glorious, and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, who by their sacred sufferings have illumined the ends of the earth...

Feast Day/Commemorated: October 7 High-ranking officers under Emperor Maximian, Sergius and Bacchus lived as secret Christians until they were denounced by those jealous of their status. Tasked with choosing between their military prestige and their...

Feast Day/Commemorated: October 7 High-ranking officers under Emperor Maximian, Sergius and Bacchus lived as secret Christians until they were denounced by those jealous of their status. Tasked with choosing between their military prestige and their...

Feast Day/Commemorated: June 20 St. Methodios of Olympus: The Enigmatic Critic Little is known of Methodios’s early life; the specific date and location of his birth remain a mystery. Notably, he is absent from Eusebius’s Church History,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 3 Symeon the God-Receiver was a devout and righteous man of Jerusalem, recognized for his deep faith and his role as one of the seventy scholars commissioned by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. While working in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: October 27 In the remote Alaskan tundra, surrounded by the confluence of the Kwethluk and Kuskokwim rivers, Matushka Olga Michael (born Arrsamquq, meaning "lowly, hidden, or unadorned") entered the world on February 3, 1916. Her...