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Little more is known about Lazarus after Our Lord's [[Pascha|Resurrection]] and [[Ascension]]. However, except that during his thirty year stay in Larnaca various traditions are connected with him. The most famous is that he never smiled or joked; except for one occcassion. One day, he saw someone stealing a clay pot and he laughed saying, "the clay steals the clay".

Another famous tradition connects connected to Lazarus with is the discovery of [[Mount Athos]]in 52AD. Lazarus was very close to Christ the Virgin Mary and he was very grieved that he could not return to Jerusalem to visit her (he was still in fear of the Jews). The Theotokos learned of his family sorrow and was missing the Virgin Marysent him a letter to comfort him. She asked that he might send a ship to her that she might visit him in Cyprus. For this reasonWith great joy, he Lazarus sent a ship to the [[Holy Lands]] to bring the Virgin Mary and [[John the Theologian|John]] , the beloved disciple to Cyprus for a visit. While they were travellingOn their journey, a great storm blew the ship them off course and carried them to the shores of Ephesus and then the ship to the shores of [[Athos]], Greece. According Unaware that divine providence had brought her to the traditionthis area, the most holy Theotokos, was Virgin Mary completely taken aback by the beauty of the area and , prayed to her son that this could be her gardendevoted to prayer to "fight the good fight of faith". After converting Having converted, blessed and established a new christian community from the local idolaters they set sail for Cyprus and met with Lazarus.  It is said, that she had knit sewn the [[omophorion]] and [[epimanikia]] as a present for Lazarus a Bishop's pallium with her own hands.