The Mother of God, "Tenderness"

The Mother of God, "Tenderness"The icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" is depicted in this mounted icon in the Jordanville tradition. The Umilenie or Eleusa type in which the Christ Child rests his cheek against his Mother's is the most intimate and tender of all Theotokos iconographic expressions, rendered here with the warmth of the Jordanville school. A quality icon from Damascene Gallery.

John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco — the great hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad who cared for thousands of refugees

The image invites the faithful to approach her as the greatest intercessor before the throne of her Son

this icon from Damascene Gallery honors the spiritual foundations of Kievan Rus'

Joasaph traveled his entire diocese on foot to know his flock

John was shot in Tsarskoye Selo on November 7

From the Athonite iconographic tradition — the style of Mount Athos

St Nikita is invoked for healing and protection

the Pacific Northwest

The Wedding at Cana — Christ's first miracle

The icon of the Mother of God "Supplicating" depicts the Theotokos in the Deisis posture

One of the defining images of 19th-century Russian painting

as the great center of Russian Orthodoxy in America