Baptism
Detail of a fresco painted by the Russian iconographer Sergei Fyodorov in 2004, to mark the 1,4000th anniversary of the cathedral's founding.
Beneath an image of Jesus being baptised in the river Jordan by John the Baptist, the fresco shows the mass baptism of Anglo-Saxons in the river Medway after King Ethelbert's conversion by St Augustine.
North transept, Rochester Cathedral.
Baptism
Detail of a fresco painted by the Russian iconographer Sergei Fyodorov in 2004, to mark the 1,4000th anniversary of the cathedral's founding.
Beneath an image of Jesus being baptised in the river Jordan by John the Baptist, the fresco shows the mass baptism of Anglo-Saxons in the river Medway after King Ethelbert's conversion by St Augustine.
North transept, Rochester Cathedral.