A question for Ian

Categories: places

Date: 01 August 2006 09:14:31

When I was at the painted monasteries, one of the frescoes I saw (at Sucevita) was this one:

I didn't think about it at the time, but I bought a postcard of it to send someone and as I was writing it I saw that the English translation said something like "The Ladder of Virtue of St John Climax". And it suddenly occurred to me that that might be a duff translation of the name and that they may have meant St John Climacus. And then I remembered that I've seen you use a ladder icon elsewhere (when you comment on some other blogs) and wondered if this was *your* saint? I hope it is!

[I wanted to ask a couple of days ago but I used up my flickr upload limit with all the other photos so had to wait till today!]