Iconographer Jan Grigoruk explains to a inmate of Bialystok prison in eastern Poland how to paint an orthodox icon on December 21, 2012. The centuries' old craft, which typically displays the Virgin ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, “writing” religious icons. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making icons more a form of prayer than art ...

Praying before an icon is like having a meeting with your favorite saint, according to Michigan-based iconographer Kathleen Bordo Crombie. When a person gazes upon the holy artwork, it’s not as if he ...

Orthodox Christians consider writing icons to be a significant and scared form of prayer. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making ...