By Michaela Gordoni
Renowned tattoo artist Kat Von D is taking a visit to church this Holy Week.
On Tuesday, she shared a video of herself praying, reading scripture and receiving a blessing or prayer from the priest.
Other segments of the video focused on Von D’s cross necklace and the church’s iconography of Jesus and Mary.
“☦️ ⛪️: Christ The Savior – Holy Spirit Orthodox Church, Cincinnati, Ohio Archpriest: Father Steven C. Kostoff,” Von D simply captioned the post.
In February, Von D gave her followers a glimpse of what her life is like as a homeschool mom to her 6-year-old son, Leafar. They started their day by making the sign of the cross, reciting “The Lord’s Prayer” and kissing photos of Mary and Jesus. As Von D shared their other activities, she highlighted the books “Christian Studies Enrichment” and “102 Orthodox Saints.”
This is a complete turnaround for the woman who once practiced witchcraft.
“I was just searching for answers and meaning in so many of the wrong places, like most people do,” Von D recalled in 2023.
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“I don’t want these crutches in my life anymore, and that’s what really I saw them as,” she added. “I just want Jesus, and it’s a very narrow road. I feel like all these other, these breathing techniques, or spell work, nature worship, all these things, they’re just crutches. They’re not really my answer.”
Now, she believes she found her “answer.” In October 2023, Von D became a follower of Christ and got baptized.
“I’m on fire for Jesus. I don’t plan on this dimming out,” Von D said a month after her baptism. “The more and more I learn, the more excited I get about things and the more at ease I am about what’s happening in this world and what’s happening in my marriage, in all of it.”
“There’s the symbolic gesture of baptism, but also a part for me is a bit of making amends with my followers because for so many years, I’ve been putting out a certain message that makes me sad I was ever even a part of,” she explained.
“To publicly proclaim this was me setting some things right,” she said. “Just for me. It has nothing to do with, my church isn’t involved in that thought process. It was important to me to share that.”
Von D shared she became a Christian two years before her baptism at a Baptist church in her town of Vevay, Indiana. However, she became a catechumen in the Eastern Orthodox Church last year.
Von D’s recent choices mark a profound continuation of her spiritual journey. They reflect her commitment to her newfound faith.
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