Fresco, Panagia Asinou Church, Nikitari, Cyprus
St Mammes of Caesarea, riding his companion lion to Morphou, holding the lamb he rescued, fresco, detail, 1332-33, in a niche on the south wall of the narthex of the Panagia Asinou Church, or Panagia Forviotissa, a Byzantine church, originally the church of Forvion monastery, built from 1005, founded 1099, dedicated to the Virgin of Forvia, near Nikitari, in the Troodos mountains, Cyprus. The church is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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