St John Kochurov

St John KochurovSt. John Kochurov priest martyr, first among the New Martyrs of Russia to be killed by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution of 1917 is depicted here by Deacon Paul Drozdowski of Holy Trinity Monastery. Fr. John was shot in Tsarskoye Selo on November 7, 1917, just days after the Revolution began, and was glorified as a martyr by the Russian Church Abroad in 1981. His feast is November 13. An Orthodox mounted icon of the Holy Hieromartyr from

Catherine of Alexandria the Great Martyr is executed in the Italian iconographic tradition — a rich heritage of sacred image-making that

A quality Damascene Gallery mounted icon of the Savior

painted in 1878 — one of the most beloved works of Russian landscape painting

This icon of the Archangel Michael belongs to the venerable Moscow school of Russian iconography — the tradition of St

Euphrosyne of Moscow — born Eudokia

Solomon built the Temple of which the Theotokos is the living fulfillment

John with solemnity and theological depth

Helen the Empress — Equal of the Apostles

The image of the Theotokos-as-Oranta — interceding with upraised arms while the Christ Emmanuel rests in a medallion on her breast — speaks of the Theotokos as the living Ark of the New Covenant

St Romanos

The icon of the Entombment of Christ — known in Russian as the Plaschinitsa and in Greek as the Epitaphios — depicts the body of the Lord laid out after the Descent from the Cross

translating the Scriptures