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

Icon' is simply the Greek word for ... most famous of all Orthodox icons, and one particularly connected to Constantinople. Known as the Hodegetria, it shows the Virgin Mary with the Christ ...

But a few Orthodox Christian monks remain icons of local life ... in the Middle East in the 9th century sailed to this mountainous island with an icon of the Virgin Mary. They were building a shelter ...

Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian monk prays to the icon of the Virgin Mary that gives its name to the whitewashed complex perched between sky and sea ...

Ever since an icon of the Virgin ... the most important Eastern Orthodox pilgrimage site in Greece. "The Virgin Mary has saved Tínos," I was told by Maya Tsoclis, a Greek television personality ...

worked and welcomed the faithful in a millennium-old monastery carved into a seaside cliff on the Greek island of Amorgos.