St Demetrius of Thessalonica

St Demetrius of ThessalonicaHieromonk Andrei Erastov of Jordanville wrote this icon of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica the Great Martyr a fitting task for an iconographer steeped in the tradition of a monastery that has kept the veneration of the holy martyrs at the heart of its life. The saint is rendered with the canonical spear and military garb, signs of the courage and sacrifice that won him his crown. An Orthodox mounted icon of St. Demetrius from Damascene Gallery.

Archimandrite Cyprian is among the most revered of the Jordanville iconographers

The Mother of God "Tenderness" is depicted in this mounted icon with the warmth and intimacy characteristic of the Eleusa type

expressed in the tenderness of a mother and her child

Her distinctive composition — showing the Theotokos with the Christ Child before her

Holy is rendered here with the gravity and authority of one who stood in the presence of God and was sent back to speak His word

The great company of Christian martyrs — whose names are individually known to God even when forgotten by men — is honored in every icon of the holy martyrs

A beloved image of old Russia and a fine art print from Damascene Gallery

The Resurrection of Christ — the supreme feast of the Orthodox Church

the Ever-Virgin Theotokos

The icon of the Entombment of Christ — known in Russian as the Plaschinitsa and in Greek as the Epitaphios — depicts the body of the Lord laid out after the Descent from the Cross

whose Orations on the Trinity defined the Church's language about God for all subsequent generations

this icon honors her memory with the devotional seriousness of the Orthodox iconographic tradition