ikon
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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.
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
Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn."
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For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
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But I don't know what I'm saying ... and only fancy, with the ikon on his neck he spat at me....
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
