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.
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A sculpture like Saint Sebastian, 1957-58, its bronze skin crusted with the shapes of reclaimed junk that Paolozzi had incorporated into the mold, balances neatly between golem and 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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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
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In his hands was put an ikon of the Saviour.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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