The icon is unified by the central figure of the baby lying in a dark cave cut into a stony mountain, with the many actors present at the scene or arriving later, grouped around him.

The icon of the feast is a more-or-less faithful imaging of the protoevangelium, with the composition echoing the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ which Mary’s birth prepares the way for. Anna is ...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — The religious scenes playing out on the interior walls of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church could have been painted centuries ago: Saints with gilded halos, winged angels… ...

Two churches, situated on either side of a gentle rise in Palos Park, represent a history that began more than a millennium ago and half a world away. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian ...

'Icons in Transformation' by Ludmila Pawlowska, is open at Huntsville's Church of the Nativity through April 20, 2014. A variety of events deepen the impact of the free exhibit, which leads the ...