ikon

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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.

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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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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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It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.

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A beautiful ikon, flowers, and two lights adorned the temporary altar.

From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert