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  • As ata janë mirë, pop-ikona e filmit të Riefenstahl.

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  • Ostrovorotnaia ili ostrobramskai cudotvornaia ikona Bogoroditzy v gorodie Vilnie (Vilna, 1890); KIPRIANOVIC, Josiph Semaski, mitropolit litovskii i vilenskii (Vilna, 1894); Stosunki kosciola na Litwie

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Beside the taper, on a threadbare piece of black velvet, decorated with the customary cross in gold braid, lay a few copper coins before a dark and ancient _ikona_.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • Under the long arch of the belfry-tower gate hung a picture, adapted to use as an _ikona_, which set forth how a mother had accidentally dropped her baby overboard from a boat on the Dnyepr, and coming, disconsolate, to pray before the image of St. Nicholas, the patron of travelers, she had found her child lying there safe and sound; whence this holy picture is known by the name of St. Nicholas the Wet.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • The strongest point of the Lavra, even equal to the ancient and venerated _ikona_ of the Assumption in the great cathedral, is the catacombs, from which the convent takes its name.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • She called a policeman from the middle of the street, where he was regulating traffic as usual, and asked him about the _ikona_ and the day, with the air of a helpless child.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • Thus they had learned that there was divine power in this _ikona_, although it was not, strictly speaking, "wonder-working," since it had not been officially recognized as such by the ecclesiastical authorities.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • At the head of each saint flickered a tiny shrine-lamp, before a holy picture (_ikona_) of the occupant of the coffin.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • Before this _ikona_ my Jew pulled off his cap, and crossed himself rapidly and repeatedly, watching me out of the corner of his eye, meanwhile, to see how his piety impressed me.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • Beginning with the death scene (which greatly resembled the _ikona_ of the Assumption in the cathedral) in the lower left-hand corner, the white-robed soul, escorted by two angels, passed through all the halting-places for the various sins, each represented by the appointed devil, duly labeled.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

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