Originally, the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery ... Other icons portray saints, the Last Supper, the Ascension, the Archangel Gabriel and other Christian ...

Mucha’s life-size decorative portrait-poster—illustrated with golden mosaics, sinuous arabesques, flora and fauna—idealized and eroticized Bernhardt as a neoclassical goddess and Byzantine icon.

He prayed there before and after every overseas trip. A venerated Byzantine icon of Mary is housed in the Pauline chapel near the tomb. A vase of golden roses, donated by Francis in 2023 ...

He prayed there before and after every overseas trip. A venerated Byzantine icon of Mary is housed in the Pauline chapel near the tomb. A vase of golden roses, donated by Francis in 2023 ...

The culminating moment was the arrival at St. Mary Major Basilica, where Francis chose to be buried due to his profound devotion to the Byzantine icon of the Salus Populi Romani. This place held ...

It was under Byzantine rule until the Ottomans rocked up in 1387, razing the acropolis and building a hulking 15th-century fortress in its place. The Turkish influence can still be felt in the ...

He prayed there before and after every overseas trip. A venerated Byzantine icon of Mary is housed in the Pauline chapel near the tomb. A vase of golden roses, donated by Francis in 2023 ...

Vatican Media Before the Byzantine icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Salus Populi Romani (“Health of the Roman People”) and the 14th-century statue of the “Miraculous Crucifix ...

He prayed there before and after every overseas trip. A venerated Byzantine icon of Mary is housed in the Pauline chapel near the tomb. Pope Francis may have been a humble man beloved by ...