Veronica Royal’s most challenging commission was a five-foot-high icon of the Baptism of Christ, which hangs in St. Michael’s Church in Annandale, Va. An octagonal building dedicated in 1960, St.

Icons have been objects of faith, controversy and fascination for centuries. The popularity of icons, which are a rich resource for prayer, continues to this day as such artists as the Rev. William ...

One of the most revered shrines in Russia, the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, has remained for several centuries the main source to which believers turn in the most difficult circumstances of life.

VATICAN CITY — Here is the prayer John Paul II composed for the celebration of the Word, before the return in late August of the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan to the Orthodox patriarch of Moscow, ...