The Mother of God, "Of the Sign"

The Mother of God, "Of the Sign"The icon of the Mother of God "Of the Sign" the Oranta or Blachernitissa type is depicted in this mounted icon in the Lavra tradition. Her intercession before God, represented in the image of arms upraised in prayer, is the image of the Church itself at prayer: the bride standing before the Bridegroom, bearing within her the presence of Christ. A quality icon from Damascene Gallery.

traditionally associated with the Chersonesus (Korsun) where St Vladimir the Great received baptism in 988 — the event that brought Christianity to Russia

this Orthodox icon of the Annunciation carries the gravitas and precision characteristic of that venerable tradition

Another image of Christ the Savior in the pre-20th-century Russian tradition

Demetrius has been the patron and defender of Thessalonica for seventeen centuries

The Holy Theophany — the Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan

Longinus the Centurion is after the style of Simon Ushakov — the great 17th-century master of the Moscow Armoury school whose realistic

and her intercession is sought by all who carry heavy burdens

shares the same theological vision of the holy icon as a window into the kingdom

The eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II

who said 'He must increase

George — Great Martyr

An Orthodox mounted icon of the Baptism of the Lord for any home or parish