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===Art=== [[File:Battistello Caracciolo - St Onophrius - WGA04067.jpg|thumb|left|[[Battistello Caracciolo]], Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome]] [[Image:Yilanli (Snake) Church.jpg|thumb|right|175px|Fresco of Onuphrius (on left) in the [[Snake Church]].]] Images of Saint Onuphrius were conflated with those of the medieval "[[wild man]]".<ref>[http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/206/index.htm National Gallery of Art | Press Office<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830070851/http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/206/index.htm |date=2008-08-30 }}</ref> In art, he is depicted as a wild man completely covered with hair, wearing a girdle of leaves.{{sfn|Butler|Burns|2000|p=96}} He is depicted at [[Snake Church]] (''Yilanlı Kilise'') in the [[Churches of Göreme, Turkey|Göreme valley open-air museum]] in [[Cappadocia]], [[Turkey]].<ref>[http://www.goreme.org/churches/yilanli/index.htm "Yilanlı Kilise", Goreme.org]</ref> He became the [[patron saint]] of weavers due to the fact that he was depicted "dressed only in his own abundant hair, and a loin-cloth of leaves". He (S. Onofrio) was named co-patron of the city of [https://web.archive.org/web/20120328113921/http://www.santonofrio.com/home.htm Palermo] in 1650. [[File:Bonsi onofrio DPA 6300023.jpg|thumb|[[Giovanni Bonsi (painter)|Giovanni Bonsi]], "[https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma99489783804896 Saint Humphrey with a Donor]," 1380, Villa La Pietra, Florence, photo by Foto Reali, Foto Reali Archive, [https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]]]
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