Based on ancient prototypes, our icon of The Resurrection shows Christ's triumphant descent into hades after His death on the Cross on Great Friday.

As described in the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, we see Him freeing those souls held in the bondage of death, and also bestowing freedom on those righteous souls who were as yet unable to enter Paradise. These icons of Christ are especially popular during Lent and Easter.

For more icons that portray Great Feasts and other Biblical icons, we encourage you to peruse Monastery Icons.

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The Resurrection (Anastasis)

Based on ancient prototypes, our icon of The Resurrection shows Christ's triumphant descent into hades after His death on the Cross on Great Friday.

As described in the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, we seen Him freeing those souls held in the bondage of death, and also bestowing freedom on those righteous souls who were as yet unable to enter Paradise.

In this paschal icon these holy ones stand on either side of Christ, looking on in worshipful joy: King David, Solomon, Saint John the Baptist, Abel the Righteous, and the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. Raising them up the Savior brings them into Paradise and sets them free.

He also raises Adam and Eve by the hands from their tombs, symbolizing the freeing of mankind from its imprisonment in fallen nature that was accomplished by the Resurrection.

Christ stands on the fallen gates or doors of Hell and Lucifer lies chained and crushed beneath them, symbolizing the victory of the divine over evil.