. Review of reviews and world's work. as perhaps beenless modified by modern ideas than any-where else in the world, the Armenianand Coptic churches alone Christianity, upon the whole,may be said to still represent the viewsthat prevailed in the Greek Empire soonafter the establishment of the statechurch and the officialintroduction of the ven-eration of saints. TheReformation did notreach Russia, and sothe iconolatry, or rev-erence shown to pic-tures, is still one of the characteristic features of worship in the Rus-sian Orthodox Church. The editor of the OpenCourt, Dr. Paul
. Review of reviews and world's work. as perhaps beenless modified by modern ideas than any-where else in the world, the Armenianand Coptic churches alone Christianity, upon the whole,may be said to still represent the viewsthat prevailed in the Greek Empire soonafter the establishment of the statechurch and the officialintroduction of the ven-eration of saints. TheReformation did notreach Russia, and sothe iconolatry, or rev-erence shown to pic-tures, is still one of the characteristic features of worship in the Rus-sian Orthodox Church. The editor of the OpenCourt, Dr. Paul Carus, has a study ofRussian iconolatry in a recent numberof his magazine, and in describing thefamous folding icon of St. Petersburg,which we reproduce on this page, he says : This most famous of Russian icons is cred-ited by many pious believ-ers with miraculous pow-ers. It shows in the centerone of the most notableRussian saints, St. Alex-ander Nevski, who, in hisworldly capacity, was asovereign that reigned atNovgorod. He waged a. St. Alexis, St. Alexander Nevski. St. Nicholas, Kuropatkins patron saint. the thaumaturgist. THB FOLDING ICON OF THE CITY OK ST. PETERSBURG. INTRUSTED TO GENERAL KUROPATKIN ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR MANCHURIA. 344 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. victorious war with Sweden and gained a decisivevictory on the banks of the river Neva in 1240,hence the people called him the hero of Neva, or, inRussian, NevsUi, under which name he became en-deared to Russian patriots, and may be considered asthe most popular saint in the Czars domain. On theleft-hand wing of the St. Petersburg folding icon wesee St. Alexis, who happens to be the special patronsaint of Kuropatkin, whose Christian name is the right-hand wing we see another famous Rus-sian saint, who holds the first place after St. AlexanderNevski in the hearts of good Russian Christians, the Miracle-Worker, or, as he is more com-monly called in Greek, the thaumaturgist. Abovethe
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