It is one of the three main Christian religious groups. The scaffolding had been up for just over two years, waiting for the iconographers to arrive.Ĭontact Rachel Spacek at 70 or Follow on Twitter.
Hondros said church attendees, particularly future brides, will be happy when the scaffolding along the church walls is taken down to present the newly installed icons. One of them, Andromachi Voutsinas, of Thessaloniki, Greece, worked on some of the first icons in the Las Vegas church with her late father, Christofauis, in 2002. On May 1, the iconographers were putting gold leaf over parts of the icons and church walls. An iconographer creates holy depictions to be used in prayer in churches. The iconographers had painted the icons onto canvases, and the canvases are plastered onto the church walls. They finally arrived at the end of April.
Their trip was delayed 14 months and was more expensive than planned. The iconographers were detained in Chicago because of visa and paperwork issues, Hondros said. Citizenship and Immigration Services when trying to get the Greek iconographers to the United States. The church ran into some problems with U.S. “So if you imagine in a warrior in Iraq and he takes out a picture of his wife and he kisses it, it is a nice piece of paper, but he loves his wife.” “We are not interested so much in the wood or the gold of the icon, but we love that person,” Ramos said. Ramos added that many of the saints depicted on the walls of the church were martyrs, dying for the faith. Sometimes we have miracle-working icons that have healing properties, and they become the means through which we learn about the faith, learn about how Christ and the saints lived.” “One is that they are vessels of grace that bring the reality of Christ and of saints into our midst. “Icons have two purposes,” said Father John Hondros, the presiding parish priest of St. The four iconographers the church hired arrived from Greece during Easter holy week, at the end of April, and will remain working on the icons through June.
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The church raised $400,000 to install new icons on the church walls. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in southwest Las Vegas. (Rachel Spacek/Las Vegas Review-Journal - paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events - are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church on Monday, May 1. The iconographers from Greece working on the icons in St.
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