St George and the Dragon

St George and the DragonPriest Paul Akmolin of Jordanville wrote this icon of St. George and the Dragon in the Russian Byzantine tradition, rendering the holy warrior martyr with the canonical precision and devotional warmth of the Jordanville school. St. George's victory over the dragon has been interpreted by Orthodox theologians as an image of the soul's conquest over sin and of Christ's harrowing of hell. An Orthodox mounted icon from Damascene Gallery.

The icon of the Mother of God "Three Handed" (Trojeruchitsa) bears the remarkable iconographic feature of a third hand at the bottom of the image — the silver hand placed there by St John of Damascus in thanksgiving after his right hand was miraculously restored by the Theotokos

This mounted icon presents a detail of the Mother of God "Of the Don" in the tradition of Theophanes the Greek — focusing on the extraordinary intimacy of the Theotokos's gaze

The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple is depicted in this mounted icon in the Old Believer iconographic tradition

it continues to challenge its viewers with the perennial question it poses

' yet the one who labored more abundantly than all

secret Christian

and venerated ever since as a miraculous source of grace and protection

Nicholas is venerated as a Wonderworker whose intercessions bring healing and protection to all who call upon him

The Holy Innocents of Bethlehem — those infant children slaughtered by Herod's command in his futile attempt to destroy the newborn King — are among the most beloved of the early martyrs

This mounted icon honors the tradition of the Sign icon as it was transmitted through that beloved monastic community

founded the Danilov Monastery in Moscow in the 13th century — the oldest monastery in the city and the spiritual seedbed from which Moscow's monastic life would flourish

the 16th-century Holy Fool for Christ whose holy life is so associated with the Moscow church that bears his name