Monuments in Cyprus

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Monuments in Cyprus
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• As indicated by Orthodox custom, at some point
  after the Resurrection of Christ, Lazarus had to
  escape Judea due to supposed plots on his life
  and came to Cyprus. There he was delegated by
  Paul and Barnabas as the primary Bishop of Kition
  (present-day Larnaca). He is said to have lived
  for thirty additional years and on his passing
  was covered there for the second and last time.
  The Church of Agios Lazaros was worked over the
  rumored (second) burial place of Lazarus.
  Monuments in Cyprus

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• It is a late-ninth century church in Larnaca,
  Cyprus. It has a place with the Church of Cyprus,
  an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church. The
  Church of Saint Lazarus is named for New
  Testament figure Lazarus of Bethany, the subject
  of a supernatural occurrence related in the
  Gospel of John, in which Jesus raises him from
  the dead.