Christ, "The Holy Napkin"

Christ, "The Holy Napkin"Another pre 20th century Russian icon of the Image Not Made by Hands, this Mandylion brings the ancient prototype into the hands of the contemporary faithful in the classical Russian iconographic language. Each generation of the Church has venerated this image the face of Christ on cloth as a direct link to the Lord Himself. An Orthodox mounted icon of great devotional significance, rooted in the very origins of Christian iconographic tradition.

This 20th-century Orthodox icon depicts the scene of St Photini (the Samaritan Woman) at the Well — the moment of her encounter with Christ that transformed her life and led to her apostolic witness unto martyrdom

the 14th-century hierarch who transferred his see from Vladimir to Moscow

This remarkable pre-20th-century Russian icon

St Paisios transformed Orthodox spiritual life for generations

His feast is August 7

Matthew's Gospel

A fine art print of Alexander Ivanov's monumental 19th-century masterpiece depicting Christ's appearance to the people of Israel at the banks of the Jordan

and for all who seek to follow Christ in the midst of the world

mother of the Most Holy Theotokos

and its icon of the Theotokos is one of the most venerated on the Holy Mountain

St Panteleimon is among the most widely venerated of the Unmercenary Healers — invoked across the Orthodox world for healing of body and soul

This pre-20th-century example in the Novgorod tradition presents the Lord with the characteristic bold simplicity and spiritual directness of that school