The picture they're holding is the most famous of all Orthodox icons, and one particularly connected to Constantinople. Known as the Hodegetria, it shows the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in ...
Controversy followed after an artist's works were vandalized by a Greek MP, labeling them as blasphemous for distorting ...
Located on a remote cliff peninsula in the village of Paleokastritsa, the Byzantine monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and the site ... museum of Byzantine icons, books, relics and a ...