Dormition of the Theotokos The Twelve Great Feasts with the upward sweep of

with the upward sweep of the rocks and trees to the bright colors of the elder’s robes and garments laid beneath the colt’s hoofs

the order had grown to over one hundred young women and they ran the large St

The icon of Christ the Healer was created during the Covid-19 pandemic by iconographer Joseph Malham as an offering for all those suffering

Her final words before her arrest were “Come Rosa

Dormition of the Theotokos The Twelve Great Feasts with the upward sweep ofAugust 15th The Dormition, or Falling Asleep, of the Theotokos commemorates the death of the Virgin in the home of St. John the Evangelist, to whom she was given by Jesus from the Cross. For centuries it was believed the Virgin and St. John lived in Ephesus but contemporary biblical scholarship points to Jerusalem. The Theotokos, lying in the sleep of death on a bier, is surrounded by the grieving apostles as well as the holy women and early bishops