[joan]

More than 350 objects—icons, manuscripts, vestments and other gorgeously embroidered fabrics—have been gathered together, including 40 from St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai and several from Kosovo where more than a dozen churches were destroyed last week.

The art of Byzantium: Glories of gold

[getgoing]

Thank you for this much needed ping. During a time of overwhelming destruction antiquities of the Church are preserved.