The icon depicts twelve principal feasts of the Orthodox church painted on the top and side registers and centered around Christ's Resurrection and Descent into Hell. The Feasts are (from the top left corner - clockwise): the Nativity of The Virgin, Presentation of Mary at the Temple, the Annunciation, the Nativity of Christ, the Baptism of Christ, the Transfiguration of Christ, the Erection of the Cross, the Dormition Mother of God, the Old Testament Trinity, the Ascension of Christ, Entrance into Jerusalem, and Presentation of Christ at the Temple.