Christmas Gifts Abound at Monastery Icons

With the Christmas season fast approaching, what is the best place to find beautiful, traditional, and economical gifts for friends and loved ones? Monastery Icons, of course! Monastery Icons selection of icons, religious gifts, jewelery, crucifixes, banners, Monastery incense and other sacred art of unsurpassed beauty and affordability makes it easy to find something unique for everyone on your shopping list.

For instance, our new line of embossed icons from Russia combines beauty, ornamentation, and religious inspiration in the perfect manner to grace your home for the coming holy season, or for that matter, at any time!

Explore the Monastery Icons Website to discover new icons and sacred gifts, as well as ever-popular favorites. Now is the time to order your Christmas icons and more to avoid the Christmas rush. And subscribe to the Monastery Icons Newsletter to receive news about unique product offers, special discounts and reduced postage rates. Visit the Monastery Icons Homepage, and add your email address in the subscribe box in the right hand column.

All of us from Monastery Icons wish you a Joyous Christmas!

New Catalog and New Items at Monastery Icons

Those of you who are on our MonasteryIcons.com mailing list have already received our newest free catalog with an impressive selection of new icons and sacred gifts. With over fifty new items of unique beauty, this is one of our best selections of icons and sacred art ever.

For instance, we now offer this stunning Our Lady of Vladimir Wooden Egg, the perfect gift for the Christmas season. The Divine Child and the Holy Mother tenderly embrace each other in the radiantly colorful icon that adorns this large wooden egg.
Handmade in Russia. 4″ x 5 1/2″ with stand 7 1/2″for only $49.95

Visit our new items page at MonasteryIcons.com to see this and over 50 more new icons and sacred art.

Monastery Icons on the Web

Monastery Icons has an increasing presence on the web in an attempt to make it easier to find our unique collection of sacred icons – each truly a “window into heaven” that will bring inspiration and light to your home, your church, and whomever you present them to.

• Monastery Icons on YouTube
  Our video on “How to Paint an Icon” to YouTube has become popular with those who are interested in the technical aspects of iconography, and bloggers can add the video to their blogs and other websites, in order to inform and entertain their readers.
• Look at Monastery Icons on Flickr
  We have begun uploading some of our icons to our Monastery Icons Flickr account, for those who would like to see our icons at a larger size.
• Monastery Icons on FaceBookAnother place to interact with Monastery Icons.
• Monastery Icons on MySpace
  Many businesses are adding their profiles to MySpace. Take a look at the Monastery Icons MySpace page.
• And More!
  Monastery Icons has added profiles on a number of easy to find sites, such as the Monastery Icons Page on Vox, and a Monastery Icons profile on Piczo, LinkedIn, About Us.org.
• Monstery Icons Photo Site Profiles
  Newly added icon photo collections can be found on the Monastery Icons pages of PicasaWeb, WebShots, and PhotoBucket.

Monastery Icons Adds Earliest Guadalupe Story

Monastery Icons has added pages devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe to its website. Included is one of the earliest accounts of the apparition of Our Lady to Juan Diego by Antonio Valeriano.

Don Antonio Valeriano wrote one of the most important accounts of the appearance of Our Lady to Juan Diego in Mexico. He was a descendant of the royal house of Tacuba that stemmed from the Emperor Moctezuma II,and was a figure of great importance in the middle of the XVIth. century.

Born about 1520, he received education and enlightenment from the Franciscan friars in the College of the Holy Cross at Tlaltelolco.

He later became Governor of the Indians in Mexico city for thirty six years. He was remarkable for his understanding of men’s minds, thanks to which he became famous as an arbitrator between the two races. He had the aristocratic spirit of the high-class, intelligent Indian.

He had a profound knowledge of Latin and of spiritual and ecclesiastical matters. He inherited from his ancestors numerous hieroglyphs and documents on the Guadalupe tradition, referring to the appearances of the Most Holy Virgin in Tepeyac. Having known and had dealings with Juan Diego, Juan Bernardino, and Bishop Zumirraga as well, he was the first to write down the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Read his account of Our Lady’s appearance here.