Karoussos Icons

Three Icons depicting the Virgin Mary, Christ the Life Giver and St John the Theologian and Prochorus, were gifted by the Karoussos Foundation to Glastonbury at a ceremony in Sept 2018. Those present included Bishop Declan, Greek Orthodox Archbishop Gregorios Theocharous of Thyateira and Great Britain, Parish priest Fr Bede Rowe and Katerina Karoussos of the Karoussos Foundation.

The icons were painted by Iannis Karoussos, who died in 2013. He was an iconographer of world importance, and is well known for his monumental fresco works in the Church of San Theodoro in Palatino in Rome. On hearing that the Isle of Patmos, which had always been very dear to her father, was twinned with Glastonbury, Katerina visited Glastonbury to offer three of his award winning icons to St Mary's church, in honour of her father and his vision of unity.

The specially made wooden case which houses the three Icons was made by Paul Rendell of Glastonbury. The beautiful case is made from oak and 6,500 year old bog oak from Avalon marshes.