"I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake."
- Saint John of Damascus
The icons and walls of St. Michael were hand-painted by Dom Joseph-Marie, an Orthodox Benedictine Monk from Ladyminster Monastery.
The work began in 2015 and was completed in 2021.
Dom Joseph-Marie's sketches in 2019
Fresco of the Crucifixion from Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome (~750 AD)
Icon of the Crucifixion at St Michael's
Left to Right: St. Gregory Palamas, St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Symeon the New Theologian, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. Basil the Great, St. John Chrysostom
Left to Right: St. Scholastica, St. Cecilia, St. Agnes, St. Margaret, St. Thecla, St. Lucia, St. Catherine, St. Perpetua, St. Felicity
Left to Right: St. Ambrose of Milan, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Leo the Great, St. Gregory the Great, St. Benedict of Nursia, St. Lawrence of Rome
The Annunciation
The Ascension
Left to Right: St. Tabitha/Dorcas, St. Joanna of Chuza, St. Mary of Paris, St. Mary of Egypt, St. Mary Magdalene
Left to Right: St. Isidore of Seville, St. Raphael of Brooklyn, St. Moses the Black, St. John Maximovich, Representative of Chinese martyrs and anonymous unnamed saints across the world