Saint Mercurius, Greek soldier and Christian martyr, 224-250. In Byzantine military costume of the 11th century. From a painting by Dominique Papety made in the Agia Lavra Monastery, Mt. Athos, now in the Louvre. Saint Mercure, Empire de Byzance, XIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Emile Beau after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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