Architectural historian and photographer William Brumfield unravels the 500-year history of the Novodevichy Convent and its ...

Known as the Hodegetria, it shows the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in her arms. The Hodegetria is being venerated by a host of saints, by the head of the Orthodox Church - the Patriarch - and ...

The name given to this type of Marian image in iconography is "Hodegetria," a word meaning "Guide of the Way." The word, "Hodegetria" -- as applied here -- originates from the monastery grounds of the ...

The icon of the Sunday of Orthodoxy commemorates the “restoration” of icons in the churches and to their use in Orthodox worship. The focal point of the icon is an icon itself, the Virgin Hodegetria, ...

The original of this icon is in the St. Stephen Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. The icon from the latter part of the seventeenth century is a typical Hodegetria, the Mother pointing with her right hand ...