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Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Artist Miltiadis Afentoulis of Nyack is painting eight Byzantine-style icons depicting the life events of Jesus on the walls of the sanctuary of St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church on ...

Q My wife purchased this icon from a Greek Orthodox Church in Russia about 60 years ago. It is a little more than 17 inches tall and almost 11 inches wide. It is in the original frame with some faded ...

The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in the Park Merced neighborhood in San Francisco is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from ...

According to a story in the Old Testament, three youths were thrown into a fiery furnace by an angry king, but were not harmed. They sang amid the flames, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church pastor the Rev.

MIDDLETOWN — As a young boy in Greece, Nick Ververis spent his summer days peeking through the stained-glassed windows watching painters meticulously creating icons. Over time, Ververis, then 12 or 13 ...

The Rev. Nicholas Jonas says he was in disbelief when he saw tears streaming down the face of a painting of Mary holding the child Jesus in his chapel. “When these things happen, I feel like a little ...

Cottonwood Heights • Imagine glimpsing the arm of Jesus’ grandmother or a robe from his father — well, stepfather. Now 2,000 years later, you can — right here in Utah — as long as you have a believing ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...