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The Temptation of Christ

The Gospels describe how Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from His Baptism in the River Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert, where He was tempted by the devil for forty days: “Th...

The Baptism of Christ

All four Gospels describe how Jesus Christ was baptised in the River Jordan by John the Baptist: “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad Him, sayin...

The Boy Jesus at the Temple

The Book of Luke tells how the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem after the Feast of the Passover and went to the temple: “Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover....

The Flight into Egypt

The Book of Matthew tells how an angel appeared to Joseph one night in a dream. The angel commanded Joseph to flee to Egypt with his wife and child, in order to escape the wrath of King Herod, who wa...

The Presentation in the Temple

The Book of Luke describes how Jesus was presented in the temple of Jerusalem on the fortieth day after His birth, in accordance with Hebrew law. The law was given to Israel by Moses and required tha...

The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi is described in the Book of Matthew. Three kings were led from the east to Bethlehem by a star that stopped over the stable where Jesus was born. The Magi worshipped the Sav...

The Nativity of Christ

The Russian iconography of the Nativity of Christ was inherited from the Byzantine Empire before the Mongol invasion and was based on descriptions of the birth of Jesus in the Gospels (Matthew 1:18–2...

The Annunciation

The Book of Luke tells of the visit of the angel Gabriel to Mary, in the house of Joseph, the man she is pledged to marry. The angel tells Mary that she will give birth to a son who will save the wor...

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

The Orthodox festival of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin was established in Byzantium in the fifth century. The main literary source was an apocryphal work called the Gospel of St James, which was...

Balaam Monastery of the Transfiguration

Balaam is an island in the very north of Lake Ladoga, fourteen miles from the mainland and not far from the Finnish border. This is the home of a famous monastery, which became the spiritual centre o...

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