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Maj. Van Constant, a chaplain assigned to Multinational Battle Group-East, blesses a meal on Camp Prizren, Kosovo, Jan. 3, 2017. The chaplain met with Brig. Gen. David Graetz, assistant to the Army chief of chaplains, and liaison for the National Guard, to discuss the spiritual needs of today’s Army
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on January 8, 2025. During the Great Blessing of Water at Epiphany (Theophany), the priest holds lit candles and a cross over a golden vessel of water to be blessed.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, April 5, 2026. Worshippers, led by a priest in white vestments, walk along the side of the church at dusk during the Paschal procession.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, April 5, 2026. At the beginning of the Paschal service, the faithful walk in procession around the outside of the church, led by a processional cross, before the doors are opened to proclaim the Res
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, April 5, 2026. Families bring baskets of bread, eggs, sausage and sweets to be blessed after the Paschal liturgy, a tradition in many Eastern European Catholic communities.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the Sunday of the Holy Cross, March 8, 2026. On the third Sunday of Great Lent, the cross is brought out for veneration and decorated with red and white carnations between two red vigil lamps.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on February 2, 2025. The painted icon of the Mystical Supper (the Last Supper) hangs above the altar table with its candlestand, gospel book and tabernacle.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on December 7, 2025, the week of the feast of Saint Nicholas. An icon of the bishop and wonderworker Saint Nicholas rests on a cushion on a red cloth, between two red vigil lamps and a standing cross.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on December 7, 2025. A framed icon of the Theotokos of Kazan, in which Mary holds the Christ Child, sits on a wooden table.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, March 31, 2024. The icon of the Resurrection, which shows Christ raising Adam and Eve from the dead, stands on a stand in front of the iconostasis, surrounded by Easter lilies.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024. In many Eastern Christian traditions, pussy willow and flowering branches are blessed and carried on Palm Sunday in place of palm fronds.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024. Branches of yellow forsythia and pussy willow, used in place of palms, lie on a table beneath a painted icon-style crucifix.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the night of Pascha, March 31, 2024. The full moon rises beside the church's small onion dome under a deep blue sky.
The Lamentation of Christ. Mary, Mary Magdalene and John, shown half-length, gather around the body of Christ. Medium: Oil on panel. Measurements: support 35.5 x 42.9 cm.
A triptych with the Lamentation. On the central panel Christ is mourned in a landscape, his body resting against the knee of Mary, surrounded by the holy women, John, Joseph and a monk. The Lamentation is a free copy after the painting by Geertgen tot Sint Jans in Vienna. On the inside of the left w
A Calvary crowded with figures and several episodes of the Passion. In the center Christ hangs on the cross while four angels catch his blood. In the foreground are Mary Magdalene, Mary, John and Saint Veronica with her veil; on the edge of her mantle is written Salve Sancta Facies Nostri Redemptori
Christ on the cross with angels on either side. Beneath the cross at left stand John, Mary, Mary Magdalene and the holy women. In the background are Longinus and the centurion who is healed of his blindness, with two horsemen at right. Medium: Oil on panel.
The Crucifixion. Christ hangs on the cross, with Mary fainting at the left together with John, Mary Magdalene and the holy women, and Pilate and soldiers at the right. The panel is part of a large altarpiece from the former Augustinian canons' monastery at Rottenbuch. Three of the other panels are i
An anonymous 16th-century painting of the legend of Saint Christopher, the giant ferryman who carried the Christ Child across a river and felt the weight of the world on his shoulders.
A color print from 1904 after the English painter William Henry Margetson (1861-1940). The angel Gabriel appears with outstretched hands before the Virgin Mary, who sits clothed in white and draws back in awe.
The Virgin Mary sits enthroned on a raised dais with the Christ Child and extends a hand of blessing over the poor and sick who come to her, painted by the Austrian artist Hermann Eichler (1842-1901).
A triptych with Mary on the central panel and the Christ Child sitting before her on a cushion. The child holds a bird in his left hand, and at right is a small vase of flowers, with a landscape in the background. On the left wing stands Saint John the Evangelist with a chalice in a landscape, and o
Christ on the cross. To the left of the cross Saint John supports Mary, and Mary Magdalene kneels at the foot of the cross. At left stand Saint Cecilia and Saint Barbara, and at right Saint Peter, Saint Francis and Saint Jerome. The panel comes from the convent of Marienwater at Koudewater near 's-H
A night scene of the vision of Saint Francis of Assisi. On the left Saint Francis holds the Christ Child in his arms, and on the right stands the Virgin Mary. Medium: Oil on canvas. Measurements: 103 x 102 cm.
