Santa Maria Antiqua

Thanks to reader Sean for alerting us to Project Santa Maria Antiqua, concerning the study and restoration of a mid VI-century church in Rome, abandoned and sealed in the IX century, and rediscovered a millenia later. 

The mural above captures a theme dear to this blog, as it depicts Christ enthroned, flanked by Greek Saints (on his right) and Latin Saints (on his left). A nice reminder that, in the words of Metropolitan Platon of Kiev, “the walls of which divide us … do not reach up to heaven.”