St. Ann was the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus. Her husband, the father of Mary, is St. Joachim. Ann is the patron saint of […]

In the middle of March 2020, life was unexpectedly turned upside down by the spread of the coronavirus in Louisiana.  In accord with directives from our governor, we closed the […]

In the 1980s and early 1990s, I regularly attended decorative painting workshops in Eureka, California, taught by JoSonja Jensen, an amazing American folk artist who is a master of folk […]

Many of the saints depicted in the icons I have written are saints that are common to both the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches. These are typically images that […]