Icon of St. John the Evangelist

The "Theologian" in the Russian Orthodox Tradition. 
The icon was painted in the 1980s by Zoia Scheglov. She trained under a priest iconographer in Moscow, using the fifteenth-century Russian icon techniques of egg tempera and natural vegetable dyes. 

St. John is portrayed at the end of his life, exiled to the Island of Patmos where, it is said, an angel spoke in his ear, inspiring the Book of Revelation. St. John is the writer of the fourth Gospel and is the champion of Jesus as the spoken Word of the Father. 

The placement of St. John is opposite the shrine of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Patrons of the Slovak peoples. It was Cyril and Methodius who translated the Bible into the Slovak language. Thus you have St. John with his central theology of Jesus, the Word of God, followed through by Sts. Cyril and Methodius who worked to bring that word alive in the hearts of our Slovak ancestors. 

St. Anthony's comes from a long tradition of faith. Today, the people of St. Anthony's stand grounded in the faith of our ancestors and saints, and look forward to the future with hope and the promise of the Christ- the Living Word and Sacrament.