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On Saturday, April 9, 2011, at 9:16 am, Terri Morgan sent:
> Prochorus (1st century) was one of the first seven deacons, mentioned
> in the Acts of the Apostles, with S. Stephen and S. Philip, and also
> with Nicolas (who is said to have originated the heresy of the
> Nicolaitans, condemned by S. John). S. Prochorus became bishop of
> Nicomedia, and died a martyr at Antioch.
>
Prochorus is one of the seven original deacons named in Acts 6. _Pace_ Bill East (the author of this notice, first posted on Sunday, 9 Apr 2000), there is insufficient evidence to sustain his repeating as though they were factual the traditional assertions that P. was made bishop of Nicomedia and that he died a martyr at Antioch. P. was associated legendarily with St. John and an influential, fifth- or sixth-century _Acts of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian_ circulated under his name (BHG 916-917; Latin translation, BHL 4323).
P. depicted as a deacon in the eleventh- or early twelfth-century frescoes of the Karanlik Church (Dark Church) at Göreme (Nevşehir province) in Turkey:
http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/41566379
P. depicted as a martyr bishop in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321) in the windows of the northeast little dome 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:
http://tinyurl.com/3l6kg9n
P. is often depicted as John's amanuensis. Some examples:
a) In a Greek-language Gospels belonging to the Dionysiou monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ikon/athos9.gif
b) A late tenth-century version of this scene in another Gospel codex in the same monastery is reproduced here (image is expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/3dubt7
c) In an eleventh-century Greek-language Gospels in the Special Collections of Glasgow University Library (MS Hunter 475 [olim V.7.2], fol. 274v):
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/treasures/greek.html
d) In a thirteenth-century Greek-language Gospels now in the BnF in Paris (ms. Supplément grec 140, fol. 141v):
http://tinyurl.com/449cnmo
e) In a fresco of ca. 1300, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/29qtmq5
f) In an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the dome 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/3bhv8tv
g) In a fourteenth-century (1356) Armenian-language Gospels now in the BnF in Paris (ms. Arménien 17, fol. 258v):
http://tinyurl.com/3fqrwyq
h) In a miniature of ca. 1400 in the Russian-language Khitrovo Gospels, now in Rissian State Library, Moscow:
http://www.tanais.info/rublev/rublev20.jpg
h) In a fifteenth-century (1456) Armenian-language Gospels now in the BnF in Paris (ms. Arménien 18, fol. 244v):
http://tinyurl.com/3hjacfm
Best,
John Dillon
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