Complex sentence: Mother Yulianna was one of a handful of traditional iconographers who survived persecution and she is widely credited with preserving the living tradition of icon painting and with transmitting it to her successors during one of the most difficult periods in the history of the Russian Church.
Split into simpler sentences: Mother Yulianna was one of a handful of traditional iconographers who survived persecution. She is widely credited with preserving the living tradition of icon painting and with transmitting it to her successors during one of the most difficult periods in the history of the Russian Church.