BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, “writing” religious icons. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making icons more a form of prayer than art ...

Iconographer Jan Grigoruk explains to a inmate of Bialystok prison in eastern Poland how to paint an orthodox icon on December 21, 2012. The centuries' old craft, which typically displays the Virgin ...

ATCHISON? Looking at Sister Paula Howard’s icons you’d think she’s been creating them for a long time. But she’s only been writing icons for three years. She got started when she retired at the age of ...

Orthodox Christians consider writing icons to be a significant and scared form of prayer. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making ...