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This icon is of exceptional detail and art. Twelve rays proceed from a disc towards the heads of the Apostles who are seated in a semi-cycle. In the middle the allegory of a crowned man, the World is holding a white nap open to show twelve closed…

Joachim is sitting alone and praying in the wilderness of a mountain. He supports his head with his left hand. An angel approaches and announces to him that soon God will bless them with a child. It is a wall - painting of the vault of the south…

Saint Joachim, the father of Virgin Mary, is praying in the mountain and is instructed by an angel about the pregnancy of Anna. Two other men are watching and talking between them observing Joachim. This icon is found on the northern aisle of the…

Joachim and Anna present Virgin Mary to the Temple of Jerusalem and the priest is extending his hand to bless her on the head. In a second scene the Virgin is reading on the top of the stairs and an angel is assisting her in the interpretation of the…

Christ is blessing towards Lazarus coming out of the cave-tomb enveloped in linen stripes and around him many people are staring with surprise and awe. This icon is found on the nave series of the iconostasis in the Katholikon and belongs to the…

The Reliquary of Saint Neophytos is a silver creation based on sketches by Dionisii Kouznetsov, a russian icon painter living in Paphos. The silver reliquary was created in the Limassol silversmith workshop of Elias Noussis, native Thessalonician.…

On the wall - painting Christ is depicted wearing a brown chlamys, highlighted with a web of yellow brushlines. Christ raises Adam holding him with his right hand while in his left he holds the Cross. Christ stands on the broken crossed gates of Hell…

Christ is depicted standing over the smashed Gates of Hell and pulling Adam with his left hand in order to resurrect him. Eve is depicted behind Adam. On the left of Christ, the prophets David, Solomon and John the Baptist are painted coming out of…

The icon of the Resurrection depicts Christ coming out of the tomb holding in Ηis left hand a white flag with a red cross in the middle and blessing with Ηis right hand. This icon is crowning the notrhern part of the iconostasis of the Katholikon.…

These two scenes " Road to the Calvary " and " Crucifixion " are not separated. At the first scene Christ is delivered to be crucified. In the second Christ is on the Cross. Next to the cross stands Virgin Mary, the two myrophoroi, Saint John the…