Two Nativities: the Theotokos (left) and Jesus Christ (right) The icon of the feast is a more-or-less faithful imaging of the protoevangelium, with the composition echoing the Nativity of Our Lord ...

Icons are an important part of life in the Orthodox faith. So the news on May 7, 1985, that the image of the Virgin Mary, or Theotokos, as she is known to those in the Orthodox, was reported to be ...

In the “Theotokos” icon, the Mother of God is front and center. She is the largest person in the icon, on her birthing bed. Her Son, wrapped in swaddling clothes, is in the adjacent manger ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (1314 – 1392) was medieval Russia’s spiritual leader and is ...

First, some background. Back in 2008, at a tiny Orthodox parish in Hawaii, a subdeacon there, a man named Nectarios, noticed myrrh streaming from an icon of the Virgin Mary. It was an ordinary ...

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Nectarios Yangson, the caretaker of the icon, known as the Iveron Icon ... Yangson is a deacon at the Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church based in Honolulu. After Yangson’s ...

For the past 17 weeks, St. George’s Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Taylor has been hosting services centered on two icons of the Blessed Mother of the Theotokos. The faithful believe the ...

Every year, on the Orthodox feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, a monastery on a Greek island experiences a miracle – dozens of snakes come to 'venerate' an icon of Mary. In a phenomenon ...