Entombment of Christ, Winding Sheet (Plaschinitsa, Epitaphios) Image

Entombment of Christ, Winding Sheet (Plaschinitsa, Epitaphios) ImageThe 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, surrounded by the weeping Theotokos, the holy women, and the apostles. This modern Russian icon from the Jordanville tradition captures the solemn grief and quiet hope of Great and Holy Saturday with profound devotional power. An Orthodox mounted icon for those who pray through

called 'the Just

A modern icon of St

is rendered in a modern Russian iconographic style

An Orthodox mounted icon in the Old Believer tradition for any home or parish

Rublev's treatment of the Apostle to the Gentiles captures the paradox of this extraordinary man: consumed with zeal

said to have painted the earliest images of the Theotokos

The descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ as He rises from the water

Elizabeth Fyodorovna the Nun-Martyr reflects the classical devotional gravity of the great Russian monastic tradition

and this mounted icon from Damascene Gallery honors one of the great pre-Schism saints of the English Church

Blaise of Sebaste

The 'Supplicating Apostle Andrew' is a celebrated deisis icon type attributed to the workshop of St

found at the root of a tree in the forests of Kursk in 1295