Mother of God of Magadan
Magadan is the city in eastern Siberia, built by Stalin to be the administrative center of the entire slave labor system for the former Soviet Union. The Icon of the Mother of God of Magadan was commissioned to honor the millions of martyrs and holy ones of the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, who died in the gulags, especially the 300 Russian Orthodox bishops who give their lives, rather than submit to militaristic, atheistic communism
Pope John Paul II has said that the true 'perestroika' is a reunion of the Christian traditions of the East and of the West; the Holy Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
This icon was commissioned by a member of the Queen of the Apostles MIssion Association in Englewood, Colorado and painted by Fr. William McNichols. Money from the sale of this icon will be used to rebuild the Body of Christ in the former Soviet Union....Holy Russia.
- Other Icons by Fr. William McNichols
- Information about Fr. William McNichols and his Icons
This page is managed by
Fr. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J.
of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
at Creighton University.E-Mail: bucko@creighton.edu
Page Last Updated: August 16, 2001
