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and team formation to handle the safety of staff and visitors

and history

decorated their homes

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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Ages 0-3 130 line drawingsAlfredo Tradigo Explore the extensive imagery and fascinating stories of hundreds of Orthodox Christian icons and saints. An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted.