A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in Aigai, Greece.

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

She “stares at us with the deadpan of a Byzantine saint, a golden sun hat engulfing her head like a halo,” our critic writes.Credit...Mary Flannery ... her mother and cousin — who may ...

It is Byzantine in style and is supposed ... identified with abbreviations of their names and Mary is designated by her chief title to glory: Mother of God. Our Lady’s face is of unspeakable ...

Tradition holds that Byzantine monks fleeing persecution in the Middle East in the 9th century sailed to this mountainous island with an icon of the Virgin Mary ... his mother, his father and ...

It features Mary with her hands up to symbolise the “Don’t shoot” signal that Brown is believed to have made as he faced the officer’s gun. Where Our Lady, Mother of Ferguson’s womb should be, there ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

Saint Kassia is best known as a Byzantine composer ... Maria is the Latin form of Mary, the name of Jesus' mother in the Bible. It's originally rooted in the Hebrew name Mariam, a name so ancient ...

On March 25, the Lady finally told Bernadette that she was Mary, the mother of Jesus ... around the grotto, a neo-Byzantine, three-level basilica was built. Underground is another basilica ...

The Byzantine Empire from its very inception in Constantinople during the fourth century closely allied itself to the Virgin Mary and always sought Her protection ... Church of the Deposition of the ...

He and his mother moved up to Philadelphia ... first sung on Broadway by Mary Martin a year before Coltrane’s historic Atlantic sessions. On the cast recording, it takes Martin and Patricia ...

She married Mike on March 2, 1946, and over the years became a caring wife, mother, grandmother and ... Olga was a lifelong member of Saint Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church in Weirton and ...