Visit the homepage for more information. The following contribution on the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a contemplation on a fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox icon painted by iconographer ...

In many icons of the Dormition of the Theotokos, one can see a strange scene near the bottom: an angel invisibly cuts off the two hands of a certain man. What is the story behind this scene? Bewailing ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Can you tell me more about the icons of the Dormition which include the figure of " Jephonias" with his hands cut off? A: The legend of Mary's burial ...