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Orthodox Education Day at St. Vladimir's Seminary is October 4

icon130-2CRESTWOOD, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary has chosen “Holy Icons, Sacred Arts” as this year’s theme for Orthodox Education Day (OED), an annual campus celebration of liturgy, fellowship, ethnic food, and instruction in the faith.

Keynote speaker will be Dr Vasileios Marinis, the Kallinikeion assistant professor of Byzantine Art in the Department of Art and the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College. Dr Marinis received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds degrees from the University of Athens, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, and Yale University. His research focuses on architecture and ritual in the Byzantine world and on Byzantine women, and his OED remarks will concentrate on iconography.

More information regarding the day’s schedule, icon exhibits, and icon workshops will be forthcoming. Presently, St Vladimir’s is inviting local parishes to participate in OED by sponsoring an ethnic food booth. To sponsor a booth, or for further information, please contact Special Events Coordinator Tanya Penkrat at 914-961-8313, or tpenkrat@svots.edu.

About the Icon: Theotokos with Child Emmanuel, painted by Tamara Elchaninov, will be among the many types of icons displayed at St Vladimir’s Seminary campus October 4, 2008, as part of the Orthodox Education Day theme “Holy Icons, Sacred Arts.”