How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

Putin has not yet made a public appearance to venerate the icon. Its transfer to the church is regarded as a gesture of thanks to the patriarch for his vocal support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russia's most famous icon -- the Trinity by Andrei Rublev -- was officially transferred to the use of Russia's Orthodox Church for a period of 49 years, despite protests from Russia's museum ...

The icon depicts scenes from the life of St Matrona of Moscow, a 20th Century Russian visionary and healer. In one, the Russian Orthodox saint can be seen blessing Stalin.