Dormition of the Theotokos The Twelve Great Feasts Elisabeth began practicing her faith

Elisabeth began practicing her faith again at the age of 32

The icon of Christ the Healer was created during the Covid-19 pandemic by iconographer Joseph Malham as an offering for all those suffering

Japan and Malabar

leaving a treasure of mystical and spiritual work that continues to be mined to this day

with the upward sweep of the rocks and trees to the bright colors of the elder’s robes and garments laid beneath the colt’s hoofs

Dormition of the Theotokos The Twelve Great Feasts Elisabeth began practicing her faithAugust 15th The Dormition, or Falling Asleep, of the Theotokos commemorates the death of the Virgin in the home of St. John the Evangelist, to whom she was given by Jesus from the Cross. For centuries it was believed the Virgin and St. John lived in Ephesus but contemporary biblical scholarship points to Jerusalem. The Theotokos, lying in the sleep of death on a bier, is surrounded by the grieving apostles as well as the holy women and early bishops