medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, November 11, 2010, at 10:21 am, I wrote:
> Today (11. November) is the feast day of:
>
> 4) Theodore the Stoudite (d. 826)...
> T. (at left) as depicted in the very late thirteenth- or early
> fourteenth-century frescoes in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv.
> Kliment Novi) in Ohrid:
> http://tinyurl.com/ykt8uv3
> T. (at right; at left, St. Paul the Simple) as depicted in the earlier
> fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the narthex of
> the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near
> Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of
> Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
> http://tinyurl.com/yzgnrt2
Ooops! Many will have observed that the saint at left in that pair of November calendar portraits at the Dečani monastery is not Paul the Simple. Some may even recall from Part 1 of today's 'saints of the day' who he is (hint: he's _not_ Menas of Egypt or Mennas of Samnium). Paul should have been identified as the saint at _right_ in the aforementioned fresco in Sv. Kliment Novi in Ohrid.
While we're here, a couple of illustrated, English-language pages on the Visoki Dečani monastery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visoki_De%C4%8Dani
http://tinyurl.com/2cknjs5
(at that last page, click on the photo for more views).
The pertinent Blago Archives site:
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Decani/
Best again,
John Dillon
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