Christ, "The Holy Napkin"

Christ, "The Holy Napkin"Painted by Hieromonk Andrei Erastov at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, this icon of the Holy Napkin presents the sacred face of the Lord as it was miraculously impressed upon cloth the Image Not Made by Hands, venerated by the Church from the earliest centuries. the Jordanville tradition brings characteristic warmth and canonical fidelity to this most ancient of iconographic subjects. An Orthodox mounted icon of the Mandylion in the living

The Pokrov feast

the first Patriarch of the Russian Church after the restoration of the Patriarchate in 1917

the great 14th-century Sienese master whose work stands at the crossroads of Byzantine and Western Christian art

The pre-Nikonian canonical style of the Old Believer school gives this great feast icon a particular solemnity and antiquity

commemorating the presentation of the young Virgin Mary to serve God in the Temple at Jerusalem — is depicted in this mounted icon

A fine art print of the Samaritan Woman at the Well by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Equal of the Apostles

who is quick to hear and swift to help

This pre-20th-century Russian icon of the Holy Napkin carries the weight of the centuries — painted in the classical tradition that formed the devotional life of Orthodox Russia for generations

This mounted icon of the Mother of God of Kazan honors the icon of icons of the Russian Church — found by a young girl in the ruins of Kazan after the city's conquest

as a testimony to the inexhaustible generosity of God's grace

This pre-20th-century example in the Novgorod tradition presents the Lord with the characteristic bold simplicity and spiritual directness of that school