Artist adorns Egyptian cave church with biblical art

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Polish artist Mario has spent more than two decades carving the rugged insides of the seven cave churches and chapels of the rock-hewn St. Simon Monastery and church complex atop Cairo's Mokkatam hills, with designs inspired by biblical stories. It was all done to fulfil the wishes of the church's parish priest who met Mario in the early 1990s in Cairo.

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