Holy Transfiguration

Holy TransfigurationWritten by Hieromonk Andrei Erastov of Holy Trinity Monastery, this icon of the Holy Transfiguration depicts the Lord's glorious revelation on Mount Tabor with the warmth and luminosity of the Jordanville iconographic tradition. The three apostles prostrate before the divine radiance, Moses and Elias standing on either side of the transfigured Christ: the feast of August 6 rendered in the living Russian iconographic language. An Orthodox mounted icon

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