Latomos Monastery - Holy Church of Hosios David
Fifth-century Byzantine chapel with a rare apse mosaic of a youthful Christ seated on a rainbow.
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This guide to the Latomos Monastery church of Hosios David in Thessaloniki opens in the early ninth century, with a monk named Senouphios who walked from the Egyptian desert to a hillside chapel in search of an image the local monks swore did not exist. It reaches back to the legend of Theodora, an emperor's secretly Christian daughter, and forward to Ottoman Salonica and an archaeologist in the twentieth century. Stand facing the apse to follow along.
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