... ‘grew up the life-bringing stick/beam of cross’), which is a direct allusion to the legend of the True Cross.
The reliquary of St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki shaped as a ciborium (inv. no МЗ–1148) was ...
... figures of the evangelists on the columns. H. Bogdanovich supposed that this architectural form could be the probable prototype for the Christian ciborium. In the third place the origin of the latter architectural ...