person
John the Theologian
also: Иоанн Богослов, John the Evangelist, the beloved disciple
The Apostle John, styled "the Theologian" in Orthodox tradition and venerated as the beloved disciple of Christ; depicted in profile beside the Mother of God at the foot of the crucifix in Fedya's church, the pair's silent, unmoved gaze deepens the boy's Holy Week sense of his own sinfulness and insignificance.