Icons

Traditional Catholic art gains a compelling new medium in gallery wrap canvas. Canvases featuring this modern art trend combine special printing technology and the technical skill of our Steubenville craftsmen to carefully wrap and tuck the canvas around the back of a 3/4" thick engineered wood mount. This method creates an impressive visual display with a faux 3D effect as the image continues around all visible sides of the mount. The canvas is free of visible staples or tacks and stands alone with no need for a frame. Each canvas hangs with a wire in the back and has an attractive satin-matte finish.

Our Holy Family gallery wrapped canvas is an iconic display of the Holy Family - Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. The three are shown in an embrace with all of their hands joining, depicting the unity of their love - the love that the Trinity is. Mary and Joseph's halos are joined, symbolizing their vocation of marriage: to be unified in their pursuit of holiness, continually being sanctified by the other. The fruit of this call and love is Jesus, whom they have helped form in holiness as well. May the Holy Family be a guide for us who are called to marriage or simply to each person brought into a family, that we may learn to love as they love.

A simple, neat, and beautiful way to adorn your home, office, or parish - or even to give as a gift to a friend, relative, or priest. Handcrafted at our shop in Steubenville, OH.

Christ the Bridegroom, large icon (8" x 10"). Christ is the divine Bridegroom of the Church as described in the Book of Isaiah (chapter 54).

Mounted on 5/8" wood with beveled, dark red edges and a satin finish. 

St. Andrew, whose feast day is November 30th, and is the patron saint for fishermen. Andrew, like his brother, Simon Peter, was a fisherman. He became a disciple of the great Saint John the Baptist, but when John pointed to Jesus and said, "Behold the Lamb of God!" Saint Andrew understood that Jesus was greater. At once, he left Saint John to follow the Divine Master. Jesus knew that Saint Andrew was walking behind him, and turning back, he asked, "What do you seek?" When Saint Andrew answered that he would like to know where Jesus lived, Our Lord replied, "Come and see." Saint Andrew had been only a little time with Jesus when he realized that this was truly the Messiah.

From then on, he decided to follow Jesus. Saint Andrew was thus the first disciple of Christ. Next, he brought his brother Simon (Saint Peter) to Jesus and Jesus received him, too, as His disciple. At first the two brothers continued to carry on their fishing trade and family affairs, but later, the Lord called them to stay with Him all the time. He promised to make them fishers of men, and this time, they left their nets for good. It is believed that after Our Lord ascended into Heaven, Saint Andrew went to Greece to preach the gospel. He was put to death on a cross, to which he was tied, not nailed. He lived two days in that state of suffering, still preaching to the people who gathered around their beloved Apostle. 

St. Barbara lived in the 4th century and was brought up as a heathen. She was denounced to the pagan authorities by her father himself when he learned she had converted to Christianity, and was beheaded by her father when she refused to recant.

Our St. Bernard Icon illustrates Saint Bernard, who founded and led the monastery of Clairvaux, which quicklly had more than 700 monks and eventually 160 daughter houses. He also revised and reformed the Cistercians. These saint icons pay homage to the patron of beekeepers, bees, candlemakers, the Cistercian Order, and the Knights Templar. 

As a young girl, Saint Clare was inspired by the example of Saint Francis and his friars to leave the comforts of her aristocratic home and embrace the life of holy poverty, receiving the habit at the Saint's hands. The nuns who gathered around her eventually became known as the Poor Clares, whose life of prayer and asceticism is well known to this day. 

The first "All-American saint," Saint Elizabeth Seton was Foundress of the Sisters of Charity and the originator of parochial schools. In these saint icons she is depicted holding the rosary, on which she avidly prayed, and a scroll on which is written one of her favorite spiritual maxims. Elizabeth Bayley Seton was the first native born American to be canonized by the Catholic Church. 

Saint Francis de Sales is honored as a doctor of the Church and is also the patron saint of Catholic writers and the Catholic press. As a young priest, he singlehandedly took on the arduous task of bringing the Calvinists of nearby Switzerland back to the Catholic Church. After countless doors were slammed in his face, he tried another tactic, slipping little pamphlets he wrote about Catholic doctrine underneath the doors – one of the first instances of religious tracts being used for religious conversion. He is best known for "Introduction to the Devout Life," a book he wrote for to help laypeople in the path of holiness amidst the struggles and demands of their daily lives. 

This Apostle called "the Younger" or "the Just," named in the lists of the disciples given by Matthew, Mark, and Luke and mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. He was the son of Alpheus and was known as "the Less" merely as a means of distinguishing him from James the Greater who was older or taller. According to Mark, he stood with the woman Mary and Mary Magdalene at the Crucifixion; he is also called by implication the son of the woman Mary. Little else is known with certainty about him, unless one accepts the view that he is to be identified with St. James, the Brother of the Lord, with whom he is often confused. In liturgical art, he is depicted holding a book or a club. He shares the same feast day as St. Philip.

Brother Simeon modelled this portrait of the holy bishop of Philadelphia on both photographs and popular paintings of the saint. As a young man, he left his native Bohemia to serve as a priest in New York. Appointed bishop of Philadelphia in 1852, he was the first to organize a diocesan Catholic school system, and is honored as the founder of Catholic education in America. To better serve his many parishioners in his new country, he learned four more languages so he could hear confession in six different languages. 

Our St. John the Evangelist icon illustrates, the son of Zebedee, and the brother of St. James the Great. Called to be an Apostle by our Lord in the first year of His public ministry. He became the "beloved disciple" and the only one of the Twelve who did not forsake the Savior in the hour of His Passion. He stood faithfully at the cross when the Savior made him the guardian of His Mother. 

Saint Lucy was a virgin and martyr who was one of the earliest Christian saints to achieve popularity, having a widespread following before the 5th century. These saint icons show the patron saint of the city of Syracuse in Sicily. She came to be thought of as the patron of sight and was depicted by medieval artists carrying a dish containing her eyes.

Saint Nicholas has miraculously answered Christians' prayers for centuries.

Born toward the end of the third century, Saint Nicholas was elected the Archbishop of Myra upon the death of his uncle, the archbishop. In his youth, he once heard that a person who had fallen into poverty intended to abandon his three daughters to a life of sin. Determined to save their innocence, he went out at night and threw bags of gold into the window of the sleeping father and hurried off.

The Saint is commonly represented by the side of a vessel or barrel, wherein a certain man had concealed the bodies of three children whom he had killed, but who were restored to life by the saint. He was present at the Council of Nicaea.