Holy Church of Saint Nicholas Orphanos
Fourteenth-century Byzantine monastery church with vivid, near-complete Palaiologan frescoes.
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This guide to the Church of Saint Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki reads its early fourteenth-century frescoes through the table: a village wedding at Cana where Mary turns to Christ with a very ordinary problem, and the bread and cup of the Communion of the Apostles. It also follows the Serbian king Milutin, the likely patron, and the saints he left on the nave walls as a signature. Best heard standing in the nave, facing the sanctuary.
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