Cyprus St Barnabas Monastery
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Cyprus St Barnabas Monastery
Cyprus St Barnabas Monastery
The monastery and its church, together with the mausoleum which has been built over the tomb of St Barnabas, are of greater historical and religious significance than architectural. It is known from the New Testament that St Barnabas was a native of Cyprus who became one of the foremost of the first seventy disciples. He accompanied St Paul to Cyprus (Acts xiii) and later returned with St Mark to see how the converts from this earlier visit had fared. It is believed that St Barnabas was killed by Jews at Salamis, and that St Alark secretly placed his remains in a rock-tomb outside the city boundaries. This tomb was forgotten until A.D. 477, when the saint communicated its whereabouts to Archbishop Anthemios of Constantia (as Salamis was called at that time). When the tomb was opened the identity of the dead occupant was established beyond all doubt by the fact that a manuscript of St Matthew's Gospel, written in St Barnabas's own handwriting, lay near the human remains. Archbishop Anthemios forthwith took the Gospel to the Emperor Zeno in Constantinople in the expectation that the narrative of the miraculous revelation would resolve the prevailing long-drawn-out arguments about the status of the church of Cyprus. His hopes were realized. The church was granted independence, and became the Autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus. Its archbishop was invested with the right to wear a cloak of imperial purple, carry the imperial. sceptre and sign his name in red ink. These privileges, which have survived to the present day, are a favourite subject for the holy pictures painted in the Monastery of St Barnabas by the three monks, brothers, who have lived here since 1917 and are in charge of the small community. They produce and sell a large number of icons, and have learnt to speed up their output in the same tradition as early icon-painters, by each specializing in a particular aspect of the painting: one perhaps doing the robes, another jewels and haloes, and the third concentrating on faces and hands. They have created in their own lifetimes something of a legend. Basil, one of the freshest and most evocative of herbs, is cultivated in the courtyard of the monastery. There is also a very old stone mill.
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