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Saints and Icons
Articles on Saints and Icons This section of our website, is a collection of articles about saints, their relics, or their icons. We hope to include articles, of special interest to our parish, on the saints who are depicted on our icons, or whose holy relics rest here. Articles on our feast day icons will be included here also.
Besides enhancing the beauty of our church, icons remind and instruct us in matters pertaining to the Christian faith. They can lift us up to the prototypes which they symbolize, to a higher level of thought and feeling, to help transform us and sanctify us. Icons can stimulate us to imitate the virtues of the holy personages depicted on them. They serve as a means of worship and veneration. See articles on other
categories: - Orthodox
Church, a collection of articles about the Orthodox Church. We
hope the articles in this section will be helpful to both inquires of
Orthodoxy, and to those who are members of the Church.
- Worship, a
collection of articles about services, prayers, and worship of the
Orthodox Church.
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Icon of the Ascension of Our Lord |
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Icon of the Ascension of Our Lord This Icon of the Ascension of Our Lord, is found on the Iconostas of our church, in the row of great feasts. |
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Icon of the Transfiguration |
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Icon of the Transfiguration This Icon of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, is found on the Iconostas of our church, in the row of great feasts. The feast is celebrated by all Orthodox Christians on August 6th.
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St. Alexander the Patriarch of Constantinople |
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St. Alexander the Patriarch of Constantinople In our church, rest relics of His Holiness Patriarch Alexander (August 30) Saints Alexander, John and Paul, Patriarchs of
Constantinople, lived at different times, but each of them happened to
clash with the activities of heretics who sought to distort the
teachings of the Church. St Alexander (325-340) was a vicar bishop
during the time of St Metrophanes (June 4), the first Patriarch of
Constantinople.
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Venerable John the Long-Suffering of the Kiev Near Caves |
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Venerable John the Long-Suffering of the Kiev Near Caves
 In our church, rest relics of Venerable John the
Long-Suffering of the Kiev Near Caves. St John is commemorated by the Church on July 18, and again on September
28 with the Synaxis of Monastic
Fathers who are venerated in the Near Caves of St
Anthony. St John the Much-Suffering pursued
asceticism at the Kiev Caves Lavra, accepting many sorrows for the sake
of virginity.
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The Human Icon |
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Written by Fr. Thomas Hopko
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The Human Icon Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko
This article originally was published in One World in 1987.
The invisible God has become visible in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. This is the essence of Christian faith; and it was protected and defended at the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787 AD. Jesus Christ is “the icon of the invisible God” [Colossians 1:15; 2 Corinthians 4:4]. In Him, the God Who cannot be seen is now seen. The Lord Himself declared this when He told Philip that “the one who has seen Me has seen the Father” [John 14:9]. In Jesus Christ, God’s incarnate Son and Word, God has shown Himself in the most perfect, complete, and definitive way possible.
God has become man as Jesus. He has assumed human nature, so that human persons could be what they were made to be from the beginning: creatures made in God’s image and likeness for unending life in communion with God.
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Alypius the Iconographer of the Kiev Near Caves |
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Venerable Alypius the Iconographer of the Kiev Near CavesIn our church, rest relics of Saint Alypius. He is commemorated by the church on August 17. Saint Alypius, one of the first and finest of Russian iconographers,
was a disciple of St Nikon (March 23), and from his youth he lived a
life of asceticism at the Kiev Caves monastery. He studied the
iconography of the Greek masters, and from the year 1083 beautified the
Caves monastery church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.
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Philaret Metropolitan of Moscow |
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St Philaret (Drozdov) the Metropolitan of MoscowIn our church, rest relics of our father among the saints Metropolitan Philaret. He is commemorated by the church on November 19. Saint
Philaret (Drozdov) was born on December 26, 1782 in Kolomna, a suburb
of Moscow, and was named Basil in Baptism. His father was a deacon (who
later became a priest).
The young Basil studied at the Kolomna seminary, where courses were
taught in Latin. He was small in stature, and far from robust, but his
talents set him apart from his classmates.
In 1808, while he was a student at the Moscow Theological Academy at
Holy Trinity Lavra, Basil received monastic tonsure and was named
Philaret after St Philaret the Merciful (December 1). Not long after
this, he was ordained a deacon.
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Nicolas Sviatosha of Chernigov |
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Venerable Nicolas Sviatosha of Chernigov In our church, rest relics of the holy Venerable Nicholas Sviatosha, wonderworker of the
Kiev Caves. He is remembered by the church on October 14. Saint Nicholas Sviatosha, Prince of Chernigov, and Wonderworker of the
Kiev Caves, Near Caves, was a great-grandson of Great Prince Yaroslav
the Wise and son of Prince David Svyatoslavich of Chernigov (+ 1123).
Nicholas was the Prince of Lutsk, and he had a wife and children (his
daughter was later married to the Novgorod prince St Vsevolod-Gabriel
(February 11).
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