Articles List: 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.

Good starting points would be:

Article Read Time Hit Count Written by
About the Patron of our Parish (Featured) 13 mins 30,364 Helen Creticos Theodoropoulos
Alexander Hotovitzky 17 mins 4,741 OCA Website
Alexis Toth of America 10 mins 8,300
Alypius the Iconographer of the Kiev Near Caves 3 mins 7,232
Basil the Blessed 5 mins 6,782
Church Art – Holy Tradition 3 mins 4,472 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Euphrosyne Abbess of Polotsk 2 mins 9,189
Herman of Alaska 37 mins 8,290 (OCA Website)
Holy Relics in our church 3 mins 7,919
Hypatius the Healer of the Caves 1 min 5,165
Icon of Saint Nicholas of Myra 8 mins 7,720
Icon of the Annunciation to the Theotokos 3 mins 8,199
Icon of the Ascension of Our Lord 2 mins 10,736
Icon of the Dormition 6 mins 9,593 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Icon of the Entrance of the Theotokos in the Temple 2 mins 9,198
Icon of the Entry Into Jerusalem 2 mins 8,422
Icon of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ 5 mins 10,638
Icon of the Presentation (Meeting) of Our Lord 2 mins 8,268
Icon of the Resurrection of Christ 2 mins 7,733
Icon of the Righteous Ancestor of God, Anna 2 mins 5,542
Icon of the Second Coming 1 min 6,574
Icon of the Transfiguration 2 mins 9,211
Icons 3 mins 4,821 Fr. Thomas Hopko
Innocent of Alaska 2 mins 5,351 OCA Website