ikon

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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.

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For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.

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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.

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The shadow of his sister would kneel down and pray; she would bow to the ikon, and her grey shadow on the wall would bow, too, so that two shadows prayed to God.

From The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories by Cannan, Gilbert