On the icon of 1613 from the Bistrita monastery in Romania: the king and the queen stand to the sides of the patriarch, arms outstretched in prayer. This pictorial version developed under the influence of paired images of Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helena with the Cross in their hands, known since the 10th century (paintings of churches in Cappadocia)
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