An icon of St. Nicholas painted in 1294 for a Russian Orthodox church on Lipno Island in northwestern Russia. Public Domain 4. He is the patron saint of unmarried people, fishermen, pawnbrokers ...

This past month at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, we had the great blessing to see two of the holy icons on our iconostasis restored, that of our Lord Jesus Christ and his all-pure mother.

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look ... They also chose St. Nicholas (Santa Claus) because he is one of the ...

The courts have ruled in favor of Moscow, which claimed ownership of the French Riviera church that had been managed for more ...

An eyewitness told CNN that they saw a person in a face mask splash red paint on the steps of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on New York’s Upper East Side late Friday night. Remnants of ...

May 27 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church ... artistically important Russian icons, is thought to have been painted to honour Saint Sergius of Radonezh in Sergiyev ...

She said that after an earthquake in the region in 529, archeologists believe the Church of St. Nicholas, long a popular pilgrimage site, especially for Russian Orthodox Christians, “may have ...