Icon paintings of the infamous beheading of St. John the Baptist are a long tradition among the Eastern Orthodox. Recently the Coptic Egyptian Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii asked digital artist Tony Rezk to make an icon of the 21 Coptic Egyptian men who were beheaded by ISIS in Libya.
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As Father Peter Carota describes: "The Icon shows them kneeling near the Mediterranean Sea before they were beheaded for Christ. They are in the orange jumpsuits they died in and have red sashes to show that they shed their blood for Jesus. The angels are showering down on them the crown of martyrdom. Many verbally professed Jesus as they died."
Read an interview with the artist HERE.
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