ikon
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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American delegation said he was not invited, tried to send him home, thawed out grudgingly when the Russians decided to make a "black ikon" of him.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
They descended carefully, a step at a time, for nine floors, like a solemn religious procession bearing aloft a sacred relic or ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Husband and wife stood on the top step; and he held in his hands an ikon representing the Presentation of the Virgin, while she carried a loaf of bread and a silver salt-cellar.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
