When the church was built, Gallaway had commissioned a local craftsman to build the “iconostase,” another required feature of ...

“For many Byzantine and Ukrainian Catholics, the Holy Supper and singing of parts of Great Compline are the highlights of the ...

A fresco depicts the young Jesus in a rare manner, making it an remarkable discovery not only for its artistic value but also ...

Henry James’s Venice was a “city of intense beauty and deep secrets” that he transformed into novels, letters, stories, and ...

Orthodox Christians face accusations of idolatry claiming that the veneration of icons amounts to worship of the images ...

Archaeologists at the Hisardere Necropolis in Iznik found an early Christian fresco inside a tomb that depicts a young, clean ...

A well-kept secret of the Acropolis is a cave hiding an ancient Asclepius temple with a spring of holy water, as later Christians believed.

The creation of Russia is one of the most complex and far reaching historical stories in Eurasia. Across more than a millennium, diverse tribes, ...

The symbolic temple of Byzantine tradition is at the mercy of micro-political and geopolitical designs, from its conversion into a mosque to…trucks entering its interior ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered the original burial site of Saint Nicholas in Demre - the 4th-century bishop who ...

St. Nicholas, the real-life figure who inspired the legend of Father Christmas, was buried in what is now modern-day Turkey but his remains are no longer in his original grave ...

Each of these 11 titles reveals another facet of Mary, the Mother of Jesus — Theotokos, New Eve, Ark of the Covenant, Handmaid of the Lord. In the end, every Marian image points to the same radiant ...