The icon presents Pentecost, not so much as a historical event but a spiritual reality that transcends history. Pentecost was not a one-tim

She also is praised for her obedience and silence Her heart is filled with love yet no reference to mind.

Pentecost Icons are about the descent of Holy Spirit, why so few women in Byzantine icons?

The iconographer paints with traditional egg tempera; egg yolk + water mixed with million year old stone ground into a fine dust called ea