Encounters with God: In Quest of Ancient Icons of Mary

Sister Wendy leads us on a "pilgrimage of desire" to view the earliest surviving icons of Mary.

"These early images of Mary seem to me to have the power to shock us out of our complacency, to make us look anew at what the birth of Jesus meant, and means..."

In this story of discovery and spiritual adventure, Sister Wendy Beckett, a contemplative nun and beloved art commentator, travels from England, to Rome, to Ukraine, and finally to a remote monastery in Sinai, to view the earliest icons o...