Figuring Together In
The Iconography

Figuring Together In The Iconography

Several icons in the monastery depict the two martyrs together: In a portable icon of 1846 in the old cathedral, St Georgios and St Demetrios flank the enthroned Mary and Child. If the inscriptions of their names were not there to identify them, they would be impossible to distinguish, like twin brothers. On the exterior side of a 19th-century triptych, the two martyrs, on horseback this time, occupy the entire lower half, while in the upper and narrower half, fourteen other saints possibly related to the Monastery are crowded.

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