Le Couvent du Mont Sainte - Croix
Creator:
A.N.
Date:
1879
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Inscriptions:
Printed below the illustration: Le couvent du mont Sainte-Croix
Description:
Le Tour du Monde of 1879 contains two extensive articles by Emile Dechamps on his visit to Cyprus, accompanied by a number of drawings by various French artists. This particular illustration depicts the monastery of the Holy Cross on top of a hill on the road between Larnaca and Nicosia. The monastery was a pilgrim site since antiquity, reputed to have a piece of the cross on which Christ was crucified. However, Abbot Daniel of Russia who visited the island in 1106 recorded another story: “ There is a very high mountain here, on the summit of which is a cross of cypress wood (erected) by the empress St. Helena to drive away evil spirits and heal all sorts of diseases; she put into this cross one of the sacred nails of Christ. Manifestations and great miracles are worked at this spot, and near this cross even at the present day. This cross is suspended in the air without being attached by anything to the ground: it is the Holy Spirit which sustains it in space. I, the unworthy, worshipped this holy and miraculous thing , and saw with my sinful eyes the divine favor which rests upon this place.”
Dimensions:
10 x 13 cm
Signature(s):
Signed in lower left recto: A. N.
Identifier:
PNT-00703
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Rights Holder:
© Costas and Rita Severis Foundation
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