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1: Ο ΑΓΙΟΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ Ο ΑΡΕΟΠΑΓΙΤΗΣ (St. Dionysius Areopagita, one of the few adepts St. Paul made in Athens)
2: Ο ΑΓΙΟΣ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΙΟΣ Ο ΠΑΛΑΜΑΣ (St. Gregory Palamas, a 13th-century defender of Hesychasm)
3: (top) Η ΥΨΩΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΙΜΙΟΥ ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥ (the raising of the True Cross)
(middle) Η ΕΥΡΕΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΙΜΙΟΥ ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥ (the discovery of the True Cross, by St. Helen, Constantine the Great's mother)
2: Ο ΑΓΙΟΣ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΙΟΣ Ο ΠΑΛΑΜΑΣ (St. Gregory Palamas, a 13th-century defender of Hesychasm)
3: (top) Η ΥΨΩΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΙΜΙΟΥ ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥ (the raising of the True Cross)
(middle) Η ΕΥΡΕΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΙΜΙΟΥ ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥ (the discovery of the True Cross, by St. Helen, Constantine the Great's mother)
Interesting. I had assumed it was the artist's signature, but now I see it is also connected to the subject of the painting.Bottom right corner: ΑΓΙΑ ΕΛΕΝΗ ΦΛΑΒΙΑ ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΑ 326 ΜΧ. (St. Elena, Flabia Julia Augusta)