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Byzantine Mosaic depicting the soldier,
Longinus, in the Nea Moni Church, Chios, Greece, c.1050AD
![Byzantine Mosaic depicting the soldier, Longinus, in the Nea Moni Church, Chios, Greece, c.1050AD](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Meister_der_Nea-Moni-Kirche_in_Chios_005.jpg)
Source: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei
Longinus depicted in the Nea Moni Church, Chios, Greece.
No name for the soldier who pierced Christ's side during the crucifixion is given in the Gospels; the name Longinus is found in the pseudepigraphal Gospel of Nicodemus that was appended to the apocryphal Acts of Pilate.
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