Holy Bishopric of Morphou: Mural painting of the exaltation of the Holy Cross, Church of the Holy Cross of Ayiasmati (3-3, 88)
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1494
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1494
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Late Byzantine Period
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The cross is carried heavenwards by two angels, watched by two groups of figures outside the walls of Jerusalem: one group comprises the people, led by Herakleios, the emperor who recovered the True Cross from the Persians, the other , the clergy, with the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Zacharias, ina a prominent position.
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