For example, the icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos includes the death of Mary, the ascension of her soul by Christ and angels into Heaven, the grieving of the apostles at her deathbed and ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The following contribution on the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a contemplation on a fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox icon painted by iconographer ...

In many icons of the Dormition of the Theotokos, one can see a strange scene near the bottom: an angel invisibly cuts off the two hands of a certain man. What is the story behind this scene? Bewailing ...

And our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who bestowed glory on His immaculate Mother Mary Theotokos, will also bestow glory on those who glorify her. (from On the Dormition of Mary, p. 67) State of the ...

On Friday, many Orthodox Christians celebrated the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate this feast until later this month, but I thought I’d ...