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.

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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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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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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.

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"Feodora and I will pray before the ikon to the saints morning and night to protect you wherever you may be."

From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Paget, Walter