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On Sunday, January 23, 2011, at 2:13 am, Terri Morgan sent:
> Clement of Ankara and Agathangelus...
Single portraits (betw. 1335 and 1350) of Clement of Ankara and Agathangelus on the same pilaster in the nave 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/3ajsx8k
http://tinyurl.com/3x973s6
> John the Almsgiver...
Also called J. the Eleemosynary and J. the Merciful (all three of these appellations are translations of the same one in Greek, _o Eleemon_) and John of Cyprus. Eastern-rite churches ordinarily celebrate him on 12. November. Elizabeth Dawes' English-language translation of a composite Bios of J. (mostly the anecdote-rich _Supplement_ by Leontius of Neapolis) is here:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/john-almsgiver.html
> ... There are relics of John in Venice (since the thirteenth
> century) and in Budapest (since 1489)...
J.'s relics in Venice's chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora:
http://www.savevenice.org/site/pp.asp?c=9eIHKWMHF&b=71180
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25727578@N04/3244475010/
DEDICATIONS:
An illustrated, bilingual (Greek-language and English-language) account of the church of Aghios Ioannis Eleimon at Asklipeio (Argolis prefecture) in the eastern Peloponnese:
http://www.asklipieio.gr/Default.aspx?tabid=313
Other views (the last is a shot of the building material, showing at least one spolion):
http://tinyurl.com/48u5toc
http://tinyurl.com/6j4dknr
http://www.hellenica.de/Griechenland/Geo/Ligourio002.html
Two views of, and a brief, English-language account, of J.'s originally earlier fifteenth-century church (1422) at Veliky Novgorod, rebuilt in the sixteenth century:
http://tinyurl.com/4un3no5
http://tinyurl.com/5sjcgxx
http://tinyurl.com/4bnlwf6
PORTRAYALS:
A reduced, gray-tone image of J. as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, fol. 177r):
http://www.pravenc.ru/data/2010/09/29/1234251756/i400.jpg
J. as depicted in a thirteenth-century fresco in the church of St. Peter at Stari Ras (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/4n886r4
http://tinyurl.com/4cdjkwc
http://tinyurl.com/4n9xob9
J. (at left, with Sts. Athanasius and Basil the Great) in an originally early thirteenth-century fresco (1208-1209; repainted in 1569) in the altar area of the church of the Theotokos at the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/yjqxsd3
J. as depicted in a later thirteenth-century fresco (betw. 1260 and 1263) in the altar area of the church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate of Peć at 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/2a54g8e
J. as depicted in a fresco of ca. 1300, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/4qw9qfw
J. (at right; at left, St. Clement of Alexandria) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the altar area 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/2cw5kqb
J. (at left; at right, St. John Chrysostom) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century November calendar fresco (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/39vcqhp
J. (lower register, second from left, with Sts. Barlaam of Khutynsk, Paraskeve, and Anastasia) as depicted in an early fifteenth-century Novgorod School icon now in The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=564
J. (center, betw. Sts. Nicholas of Myra and Basil of Parium) as depicted in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Novgorod School icon now in the Museum of History and Culture in Novgorod:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=813
J. (at right; at left, St. Clement of Alexandria) as depicted in a restored earlier sixteenth-century fresco (1544; attributed to Joseph Houris) in the altar area of the St. Neophytos monastery near Paphos in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.kypros.org/Sxetikos/Monastiria/NeophytosE-11b.htm
In the ninth century Leontius' _Supplement_ to J.'s Bios was translated into Latin at Rome by Anastasius Bibliothecarius. Several other translations of this text into Latin are known to exist. In the later Middle Ages J. became very widely known in Latin Christendom through Jacopo da Varazze's chapter dedicated to him in the _Legenda aurea_. Herewith an expandable view of J. giving alms as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of that work (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 26v):
http://tinyurl.com/4r894o4
Best,
John Dillon
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