Meet the artist who brings Jerusalem's priceless icons back to lifeZarifopoulos worked on the restoration of some 20 icons both on canvases and walls inside the Church of the Holy SepulcherA painting depicting the burial of Christ. "It was the same feeling I had when I entered into the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for the first time, only stronger. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher traditionally encompasses the place of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The church icons, he said, are restored about every 200 years. But other times -- as in his current work, where he has been asked to restore icons in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church -- he knows less.

Source: Ethiopian News April 11, 2023 11:34 UTC