A festival of art, music, talks and pilgrimage is to be held in Shrewsbury to mark 1,700 years since one of the most ...

Shrewsbury is set to host a major cultural and spiritual festival this spring to commemorate 1,700 years since the First ...

El Greco’s association with Toledo has played an important role in boosting tourism in this historical Castilian town.

“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a ...

A museum that opened this week in Cyprus showcases priceless early Christian artworks, many of which were recovered after being stolen from churches in the north of the war-split island.

Mosaics, icons and wall frescoes were recovered after ... and are known as rare by archaeologists, surviving when Byzantine ...

It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very ...

It features mosaics, icons and wall frescoes ... use of religious images was banned by Byzantine emperors throughout the region. But the depiction of Christ, the Virgin Mary, archangels and ...

It is Byzantine in style and is supposed to ... they carry the instruments of the passion and death of Christ. The figures of the icon are identified with abbreviations of their names and Mary ...

Greek painter El Greco is one of the best known artists in the history of Western art, as his works have influenced countless painters.