ikon

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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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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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The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia.

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During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished.

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And though I will try and describe what it directly represents in the shape of Church life later, yet from the very first I must write, as it were, with the ikon before me.

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