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05-JUN-2011

Recovery of St. Mark's Body in Alexandria

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This is the rightmost of four mosaics above the lateral portals depicting stories about St. Mark’s relic. It shows the smuggling of St. Mark's body out of Alexandria in 828 AD by covering it with layers of pork to prevent close inspection by the Islamic guards.


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