A Paleo-Christian Fresco Depicting Jesus as a Good Shepherd Discovered in Turkey

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One month after the arrival of Pope Leo XIV, the Turkish authorities announced the unveiling in Iznik, Anatolia, of a representation of Christ in a well-preserved funeral vault.

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Turkish archaeologists found in a tomb of the third century, located in Nicaea, in present-day Turkey, an exceptional fresco in which Jesus is represented as the “Good Shepherd”, young and beardless, making it one of the earliest images of Christianity in Anatolia. According to the specialists the image in question is one of the visual representations of Christianity that are among the oldest discovered, possibly dated in the early centuries of …