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FINDS AT ST. SOPHIA : MOSAICS UNCOVERED
A MOSAIC FLOOR belonging to the pre-Christian temple of Aphrodite, found below the foundations of
St. Irene.
Discoveries at St. Sophia throwing new light on pre-Christian Byzantium are described on page 7. Above: ruins of the temple of Apollo on which
< Constantine the Great built the Great Church of Christ, situated between
the present St. Sophia and St. Irene.
One of the mosaics uncovered at St. Sophia, showing the Emperor John Comnene and his consort Irene of Hungary on either side of the Virgin.
Parts oi a mosaic showing the Emperors Justinian (left) and Constantine CANADIAN GREETING.—M. Auriol, the French President, acknow- the Great respectively presenting to the Virgin a model o f the Church of ledging the greetings of the people as he drove through Ottawa to the
St. Sophia and a plan of the city of Constantinople. Governor-General's residence.
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