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Today, January 31, is also the principal feast day of:
Cyrus and John (?). A notice of these healing saints will be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/669fxqz
The links still work.
Further visuals for Cyrus and John:
C. (at right; at left, Sampson the Hospitable, another healing saint) as depicted in the earlier thirteenth-century frescoes (1230s) in narthex of the church of the Ascension in the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje (Zlatibor dist.) in central Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/2d48d5n
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/262g558
C. and J. as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
C.:
http://tinyurl.com/2efcluc
J.:
http://tinyurl.com/2g3hr9w
C. and J. as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the nave in 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/29ohnhs
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/283wk4j
One of several places in the former Regno where C. is especially venerated is Grottaglie (TA) in southern Apulia. Herewith some views of the later fourteenth-century facade (1379, preserving an older ornamental portal) of its much rebuilt principal church, next to which can be seen the the latter's early modern, domed cappellone di San Ciro:
http://tinyurl.com/5u3ucq6
http://tinyurl.com/6fyejaf
http://tinyurl.com/6j8jggs
http://tinyurl.com/6fqhhxv
http://tinyurl.com/6gdn4nr
Best,
John Dillon
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