The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, "Palm Sunday"

The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, "Palm Sunday"The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, celebrated as Palm Sunday and one of the Twelve Great Feasts, is depicted in this mounted icon in the Jordanville tradition. The scene of Christ's triumphal entry riding on a donkey, welcomed by the crowds with branches and garments, yet moving inexorably toward the Cross captures the mystery of a kingship revealed in humility. A quality icon from Damascene Gallery.

The full-standing type of Christ is among the most ancient and hieratic of all iconographic compositions

The New Martyr Kira of St

John was shot in Tsarskoye Selo on November 7

The Mother of God "Tenderness" (Umilenie) — the icon type before which St Seraphim of Sarov knelt in prayer and in whose presence he reposed in 1833 — is depicted in this mounted icon in the Jordanville tradition

' prefiguring his own resurrection

rendered with skill and devotion

calls the faithful to venerate the one whom Christ called the greatest of those born of women

The icon of the Head of St John the Baptist — a specific and ancient iconographic type depicting the severed head of the Forerunner — is a sobering image of the price of prophetic witness

Emmelia of Caesaria — the holy mother whose household produced three bishops and a great abbess — renders her with the quiet authority of one who shaped Orthodoxy's future through the holiness of her home

Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist renders the holy tax-collector-turned-apostle with the warmth and canonical integrity of the Jordanville school

This pre-20th-century Russian icon in the Ustiug tradition is a theological treasure as much as a devotional image

is depicted in this Jordanville-tradition icon