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
Introduction to the Lives of the Saints 28 mins 5,404 Ven. Justin Popovich
Isaac the Recluse of the Kiev Near Caves 2 mins 6,792
Jacob of Alaska 12 mins 5,222 OCA Website
John Kochurov 36 mins 5,518 OCA website
John of San Francisco and Shanghai 3 mins 3,550
Juvenal, Protomartyr of America 4 mins 4,589 OCA Website
Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev 5 mins 7,310
Nestor the Chronicler of the Kiev Caves 5 mins 8,637
Nicholas of South Canaan 2 mins 4,248
Nicolas Sviatosha of Chernigov 2 mins 4,873
Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God 62 mins 19,128 St. John Maximovitch
Peter the Aleut 3 mins 4,799 OCA Website
Philaret Metropolitan of Moscow 4 mins 7,058
Protection of the Holy Virgin 6 mins 7,288 (unknown)
Raphael of Brooklyn 17 mins 4,551 OCA Website
Saint Romanus the Melodist 5 mins 5,744 (unknown)
Saints of North America 2 mins 5,444
Spiritual Beauty of Icons 4 mins 5,158 Fr. Joseph Frawley
St. Alexander the Patriarch of Constantinople 2 mins 8,260
The Cross 12 mins 4,710
The Glorification of the Saints in the Orthodox Church 4 mins 4,763 Fr. Joseph Frawley
The Human Icon 8 mins 5,797 Fr. Thomas Hopko
The Saints – Holy Tradition 3 mins 9,075 Fr. Thomas Hopko
The Theotokos 6 mins 4,961 Archbishop Dmitri