• Albanian artist David Selenicasi painted parts of the monastery of the Great Lavra, the first monastery built on Mount Athos?

Facts on topics related to Great Lavra

Mount Athos

• Albanian artist David Selenicasi painted parts of the monastery of the Great Lavra, the first monastery built on Mount Athos?
• in order to subdue the heresy of Imiaslavie, the Russian Empire sent two transport ships and a gunboat to Mount Athos in Greece, and stormed the St. Panteleymon Monastery?
• the Romanian Skete Prodromos on Mount Athos shelters an icon of Theotokos considered in the Eastern Orthodox world to have been miraculously painted?
• the Zograf Monastery on the Holy Mountain was burnt down by a Catalan pirate raid in 1275?

Christian cross

• Garry Lake and the Christian cross are both translated as Hanningajuq in the local Inuktitut language?
• the Coat of arms of Asturias bears the Victory Cross, a Christian cross carried by King Pelagius of Asturias of Spain at the Battle of Covadonga?