Tag: icons

CHRISTIAN EAST-WEST DAY X: Turvey Abbey

“Bridge-building between Churches of East and West”         Turvey Abbey, BEDFORD    Saturday 20 July, 2013   10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.   SPEAKERS    Dame Mary Tanner: a…

An Explanation of the Orthodox Three-Bar Cross

By Fr. Theodore Jurewicz, thanks to our friends in YOungstown Ohio Chapter of SSJC The Top Bar The top bar is the title-board, which Pilate ordered to be hung in mockery over…

Pan-Orthodox Vespers in London – Sunday of Orthodoxy

  On March 24, 2013, the Day of Orthodoxy, the traditional Pan-Orthodox Vespers was celebrated in London. According to the established procedure, this year the celebration was held at the Patriarchate of…

Our Lady of the Wall – UK Launch of the Bethlehem Icon School

From Chrysostom, Advent-St Nicholas 2012: On Wednesday 25th July 2012 in the Marie Eugenie room at Heythrop College, by kind collaboration with the Centre for Eastern Christianity, the Society hosted a lecture – “Our…

Visit of Icon of Our Lady of Czestochova to Westminster

Homily of Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, on the occasion of the visit of the Icon on its pilgrim journey from across Russia and Siberia to Portugal. In London the…

Icons Today – 25-27 October 2012

British Association of Iconographers 10th Anniversary Exhibition St Saviour’s Church Hall, St George’s Square, London SW1V 3QW, 1030 to 1830 daily (1600 Saturday). Nearest Tube: Pimlico Over 150 hand-painted icons by 50…

Bethlehem Icon School

In the summer, we arranged for the iconographer Ian Knowles, founding director of the Bethlehem Icon School, to give a presentation on the School, and to tell us something of his work to conserve…