MIDDLETOWN — As a young boy in Greece, Nick Ververis spent his summer days peeking through the stained-glassed windows watching painters meticulously creating icons. Over time, Ververis, then 12 or 13 ...
Preparation for the 50th New Orleans Greek Festival began in February, filling the Hellenic Cultural Center on Bayou St. John with volunteers and the fragrance of the parish's famous homemade Greek ...
Q My wife purchased this icon from a Greek Orthodox Church in Russia about 60 years ago. It is a little more than 17 inches tall and almost 11 inches wide. It is in the original frame with some faded ...
Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...
The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in the Park Merced neighborhood in San Francisco is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from ...
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church stopped having regular worship services early this year when its pastor, the Rev. Bill Christ, resigned for health reasons. In his absence, visiting clergy conducted ...
CLINTON - Traveling through Greece in the summer of 1966, Emmanuel Tiliakos discovered “beguiling” icons that convey images and ideals he came to believe reveal the essential character of his ancient ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Icons of the Hellenic World will be the first major exhibition at the ...
I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of the ...
(CBS) --Worshippers are flocking to a church in the southwest suburbs, where a religious icon is secreting fragrant oil. The scented oil is emitting from an icon of St. John the Baptist at Assumption ...
POCATELLO — Ardently involved with the Gate City’s Greek Orthodox Church, Danny Thiros, the late husband of Idaho State University Athletic Director Pauline Thiros, longed for the historic church ...
In this episode of “Eat Like a Local”, host Chris Shepherd learns the history behind two long standing Houston restaurants ...