One the top right: Round fresco of Melchisedek, the King of Salem, whose offering of bread and wine to God was a foreshadowing of what Christ, the King of Kings, would do in Jeru-Salem about 1800 years later. Christ was a priest “according to the order of Melchisedek,” not according to the Old Testament levitical order. Melchisedek, therefore, is an image of Christ the High Priest and of all those priests of the New Covenant ordained, like Christ, in the order of Melchisedek. The image is found over the pews in the chancel.
