ikon
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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
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They get their stocks mostly from tourists � often in exchange for "ancient" ikons fresh from the ikon factory � but can get almost any item through a smuggling network centered in Odessa.
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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.
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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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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 Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
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