“St. Archangel Michael” – Cave Church, a dozen kilometers southwest of Struga over the village of Radozda. It is carved into a rock with an irregular elongated shape in the north-south direction, has an outline, and on the east side is closed with a stone wall and brick. The church is completely frescoed with fresco painting of two different periods. The older painting from the end of the ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ and the beginning of ⅹⅳ c., So far, it has been discovered only on the western and partially on the northern wall of the perma and belongs to the monumental composition of the miracle in Hona, as well as the representations of St. Five, St. Yo-Van Calvitte and St. Clement on the north wall. Younger fresco painting dates back to the last years of ⅹⅳ c. And after their thematic scale is the greatest fresco whole among the cave churches around the Ohrid Lake. The highest zone of the nave is painted Christ and the Old Testament prophets, below is the cycle of large holidays that continues in the press and expanded with scenes from Christ’s torment and suffering, as well as several scenes from the Bogorodica cycle. In the zone of standing saints, the Holy Warriors, the monks, the holy women of martyrdom and deisis are painted. The semi-targeted vault in the press is painted medallions with representations of Christ in several panel. Only the figure of Archangel Michael in the lunetic and remnants of the metrical composition is preserved from the former Fused. Lit.: Gojko Suboti, Peska Church Archanta Mihail Code Struga, “Proceeding philosophosophical faculties”, ⅷ, Belgrade, 1964, 299-331; Cvetan Grozdanov, wall painting and icon painting in the Struga region, Struga and Struga, Struga, 1970, 336337; Vojislav J. ™ Urveni, Byzantzche Freske U Yugoslavians, Belgrade, 1974, 17. CV. Gr. Church “St. Archangel Michael and Desert Gavril Lesnovski, “s. Lesnovo (ⅹⅳ c.)
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