Christ, "In Glory"

Christ, "In Glory"'Christ in Glory' the Lord enthroned in the divine radiance of the Kingdom, surrounded by the heavenly powers is one of the most majestic compositions in all of Orthodox iconography. This icon belongs to the Moscow school and the tradition of St. Andrei Rublev, the greatest of the Russian iconographers. The depiction of Christ enthroned in His glorified state is a foretaste of the age to come, when every eye shall see Him in His uncreated light. A

who was fed by ravens at the Brook Cherith

The Mother of God 'Enthroned' with Saints depicts the Theotokos seated in glory with the Christ Child

all-seeing gaze of God

The feast of Holy Pentecost celebrates the birth of the Church and the fulfillment of Christ's promise to send the Comforter

the 'Supplicating Archangel Gabriel' is attributed to St

Named for the Metropolitan who brought it to Russia in the 14th century

The cave monastery they established has been

John's insistence that every Christian can and must live in constant communion with Christ speaks as powerfully today as it did in the gilded age of imperial Russia

Theodore Jurewiscz

Patron saint of students in Russia — her feast falls on January 25

Their creation of the Slavonic alphabet and their translation of the Scriptures and liturgical books into the Slavonic tongue laid the foundation for the entire literary and spiritual culture of the Orthodox Slavic peoples

rendered here with the canonical gravity of the pre-Nikonian tradition