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A detailed guide to Saints Peter and Fevronia Orthodox icons: patrons of marriage and family, meaning, difference from wedding icon pairs, gift occasions, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to Saint George Orthodox icons: dragon symbolism, Great Martyr tradition, mounted and half-length versions, patron names, gift occasions, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to Saint Nicholas Orthodox icons: meaning, iconography, Nicholas the Winter and Summer, travelers, baptism and name-day gifts, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to the Queen of All Mother of God Orthodox icon: Pantanassa meaning, Mount Athos and Vatopedi tradition, prayer during illness, gift occasions, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to the Tenderness Mother of God Orthodox icon: Umilenie meaning, Seraphim-Diveyevo tradition, difference from Vladimir Eleusa, gift occasions, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to the Smolensk Mother of God Orthodox icon: Hodegetria meaning, difference from Kazan, guidance symbolism, gift occasions, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to the Burning Bush Mother of God Orthodox icon: Moses and Sinai, Incarnation symbolism, eight-pointed star, home prayer, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to the Unfading Flower Mother of God Orthodox icon: lily symbolism, purity, spiritual beauty, gift occasions, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to the Iveron Mother of God Orthodox icon: Portaitissa meaning, Mount Athos tradition, the wound on the face, home placement, sizes, materials, and custom painting.

A detailed guide to the Protection of the Mother of God Orthodox icon: Pokrov history, the veil or maforion, composition, Novgorod and Suzdal traditions, sizes, materials, wedding gifts, and custom painting.