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Saturday 9 March 2002

Weather still excellent, warm enough for shirtsleeves at almost 6000 feet.

Kykko Monastery (in full, the Holy Royal and Stavropiyiaki Monastery of the Virgin Mary) in the Troodos mountains

Mosaic in a cloister of the Monastery. 

Tradition has it that Byzantine Emperor Alexios Comnenos I (1081-1118) was prompted to establish the monastery in 1100 after the hermit Isaiah, who lived in the Troodos mountains, revealed that his daughter could be healed from a rare incurable disease if he would consent to build a monastery and donate to it the icon of the Virgin he possessed, reputedly painted by the Apostle Luke.

The tomb of Archbishop Makarios III. Makarios was Orthodox archbishop of Cyprus and the first President of Cyprus. Makarios, the son of a shepherd, was born 13 August 1913. Thrice elected president, he survived four assassination attempts, temporary deposition by a coup in 1974, and Turkish invasion. He died in Nicosia, on 3August 1977. Makarios served as a novice at Kykko. At his own wish, he was buried at Throni, 3 km west of the Monastery, not far from his native village of Panayia,

The remains of winter snow in the Troodos mountains.

An unconventional oven!

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