ikon
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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.
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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
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Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable.
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It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strange superstition ingrained in this Bismarck mind; what ikon do you believe in, as you urge to duty and glory?
From Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck by John Hubert Greusel
