ikon
Example Sentences
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During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished.
From Time Magazine Archive
Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp�not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
From Time Magazine Archive
A beautiful ikon, flowers, and two lights adorned the temporary altar.
From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert
