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On 09/14/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Nicetas the Goth /the Great (d. in the 370s)...
> Nicetas (at right) as depicted in a fresco (1407-1408) in the church of the Manasija (Resava) monastery near Despotovac (Pomoravlje dist.) in Serbia: http://tinyurl.com/2u79phk
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A larger view:
http://tinyurl.com/3box76o
Further to Nicetas:
N.'s martyrdom as depicted in a September calendar scene (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the nathex 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/5uwtvw9
N. (at center between two other military martyrs, St. Procopius and St. Eustachius / Eustathius Placidas) as depicted in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Novgorod School icon now in the state Russian Gallery, St. Petersburg:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=de&mst_id=814
A set of nicely expandable exterior views of the originally early fourteenth-century monastery church dedicated to N. near Čučer in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (click on the images above the map):
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37714714
Two interior views of the same richly painted church:
http://www.icon-art.info/pic.php?lng=en&loc_id=438&pic_id=798
http://www.icon-art.info/pic.php?lng=en&loc_id=438&pic_id=799
Best,
John Dillon
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