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“I’ve learned how to avoid accidents on scaffolding,” he said, “to put things up so they don’t fall off. Jurewicz used a scissor lift to reach the high points. “That got everyone’s attention,” Trbuhovich said, gazing up at the commanding figure. It was the first image to appear and made believers even out of those in the congregation of 350 to 400 people who had been reluctant toward change. Traditionally, it would go in the dome if a church has one. “On other occasions to use icons, we would show pictures of traditional churches covered in icons,” he said as walked through the nave, which he said represents the cosmos transformed.Ī 16- by 16-foot icon of the face of Christ occupies the center of St. “We use them to communicate with the person in the icon. “We don’t worship icons, we honor them, we venerate them,” Trbuhovich said. One of Jurewicz’s mentors, a monk named Father Cyprian Pyzhov, had done some work in the Lackawanna church in the 1960s. Rastko Trbuhovich, who has been there 28 years, said church leaders had casually talked about such a project for years before finally moving forward to raise funds for the $160,000 undertaking. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church was completed just in time for the May 5 Easter celebration. “It’s nice,” said the white-bearded Jurewicz, 63, who is matter-of-fact about his talent. He has been doing this work for about 40 years, often working on several Orthodox churches at a time, commuting from his Erie, Pa., church and spending a few weeks before again moving on.
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