A Miracle You Can See!

When the Loretto Chapel... 

Patron of Carpenters and Laborers

After almost five centuries of venerating Saint Joseph on the feast day of March 19th, why in 1955 did Pope Pius XII create the feast day of Sa... 

According to Hallmark Cards, each year on Valentine's Day more than 163 million cards are exchanged - a ... 

Beginning on February 11, 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared eighteen times over a period of six months to a peasant girl named Bernadette Soudirous. Following is an account ... 

For over two thousand years the Blessed Virgin has given her protection, guidance, and solace to millions of men and women who have sought her help. This motherly care continues into morder... 

Inspiring Stories and Reflections from our Customers

Over the past few weeks we've received over a hundred entries in our "What Icons Mean to Me" Contest - inspiring and personal reflections and stories about the impo... 

When the Blessed Virgin appeared to Saint Juan Diego ... 

“The same things that the Book of the Gospels explains by mea... 

This video tells the story of the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesu... 

THE HOLY CROSS OF CHRIST has much history and lore behind it, and today on the feast of the Holy Cross it is a good time to consider this...

"The stone which the builders rejected"

The shortest, easiest, and most powerful of prayers

During a prayerful vigil one night in fourteenth-century England, the hermit Blessed Richard ... 

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Iconography is a special modeof Christian sacred ... 

In these trying times, it's wise to reflect on the great gifts we have received in our Faith, and how they can help us to meet the challenge of maintaining our religious life and inner peace. Let's consider five points ... 

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This seventh-century Coptic icon eloquently presents Christ in a unique light - not as king, teacher, or even the beloved, but ... 

In their quest to "pray without ceasing" Eastern Christians have prayed the Jesus Prayer using woolen r... 

ICONOGRAPHY IS THE ORIGINAL TRADITION of Christian sacred art, and has been an integral part of the worship and mystical life of Christians since apostolic times. Referred to in the Eastern Chris... 

An Explanation of the Techniques of Byzantine Iconography

ICONOGRAPHY IS THE OLDEST TRADITION of Christian sacred art, embodying the work of thousands of iconographers, many of whom were themselves saints. Unlike other approaches to painting, the creation of an icon ... 

Artists, saints, and all the faithful have wondered through the centuries:
What did Jesus look like?... 

To create this online video we photographed successive stages of the creatio... 

The Story of the Most Famous Icon of the Virgin Mary

What will surprise many readers is that no serious scholar today, Franciscan or otherwis... 

The Story Behind This Icon

Anyone who has had a p... 

BORN IN IRELAND in the seventh century, Saint Dymphna was the daughter of Damon, a p... 

Saint Maria carr... 

Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980, Kateri Tekakwitha was ... 

Declared the Guardian of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1870, ... 

Since the beginning of Chris... 

One of the few advan... 

Recorded by Antonio Valeriano in 1531

Don Antonio Valeriano wrote one... 

"Icons invite a quiet looking."

In May of 2016 I was blessed to make my firs... 

The care that Monastery Icons puts into each icon reproduction is s... 

Rising above a hill in Montreal known as Mount Royal, there stands one of the largest cathedra... 

Born of Czech immigran... 

Since th... 

While preaching the Gospel in India, Saint Thomas the Apostle received the inner call to return ... 

Since we began offering reproductions of the Monastery Icons collection in 1981 it has been a challenge to reproduce the gold leaf backgrounds of our original icons. But a new photo technology c... 

SOME OF OUR MOST POPULAR HOLIDAYS have surprising origins, and Halloween is one of them. Merrymaking, costumes, going from house to house asking for treats – where did all this ... 

A long time ago in a place far away…
A common origin story of pretzels is that they were created by a monk around 6... 

The Gospels contain accounts of a number of appearances of Jesus after His Resurrection. In this video we share iconography from Monastery Icons and other classic sources depicting these events in sync with the famed narration of the famed actor and narrator Alexander Scourby.

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The Ukrainian folk art of Easter eggs, known as Pysanky, is believed to have originated in ancient times. As with many forms of folk art, it was ... 

Before the egg became closely entwined with the Christian Easter, it was honored during many rite-of-Spring festivals. The Romans, Gauls, Chinese, Egyptians and Persians all cherished the egg as a symbol of the universe, of the earth’s rebirt... 

Where does the term "Eas... 

Most of us are familiar with the i... 

The shrine of the Tomb of Christ, the faithful holding lighted candles kindled from ... 

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The first Europeans to arrive in the New World brought St. Nicholas. Vi... 

An epiphany that led to The Epiphany

The origin... 

Hear the Greatest Voice Narrate the Greatest Story!

Heralded as "the greatest voice ever recorded," actor a... 

Inspired by the icon in the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem, our new Nativity icon "O Holy Night" took several months to complete. But it will only take you two minutes to see the stages of its creation unfold in this online video.