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On 11/11/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Menas/Mennas of Egypt (d. c295?)...
For a recent overview of M.'s iconography with useful information on his cult, see Warren T. Woodfin, "An Officer and a Gentleman: Transformations in the Iconography of a Warrior Saint," _Dumbarton Oaks Papers_ 60 (2006), 111-143.
Further to Mennas of Egypt:
Mennas as depicted in the later twelfth-century
frescoes (betw. 1160 and 1190) in the church of St. Nicholas Kasnitzes
in Kastoria in the homonymous prefecture in northwestern Greece:
http://tinyurl.com/3fqqnke
Mennas as depicted in the later twelfth-century frescoes (ca. 1164)
in the church of St. Panteleimon (Pantaleon) at Nerezi Lartëm (Skopje
municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3h4dnet
http://tinyurl.com/3shqga3
An expandable view of Mennas as depicted in the later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo is at no. 15 here:
http://tinyurl.com/72g4kxf
Mennas as depicted in a late twelfth-century fresco (1191) in the church of St.
George at Kurbinovo (Resen municipality) in the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3h4dnet
http://tinyurl.com/3shqga3
Mennas as depicted in a late thirteenth or very early fourteenth-century fresco in the
church of St. Nicholas in the Varos monastery in Prilep in the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/43modhk
http://tinyurl.com/44uktnp
> Theodore the Stoudite (d. 826)...
> Theodore as depicted in the frescoes (c1314-c1320) of the originally early fourteenth-century monastery church dedicated to him at Čučer in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: http://tinyurl.com/y8kt7nb
>
My bad (from 2010). The church is dedicated to Saint Nicetas the Goth (Sv. Nikita). A better view of this fresco:
http://tinyurl.com/3j2mfex
> Theodore (at right; at left, St. Paul the Samnian) as depicted in the frescoes (between 1335-1350) in the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć: http://tinyurl.com/yzgnrt2
>
The saint at left is Martin of Tours. He was so identified in his notice in Terri's post:
> Martin (at left; at right, St. Theodore the Stoudite) as
depicted in the frescoes (betw. 1335-1350) in the narthex of the church
of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć:
http://tinyurl.com/yzgnrt2
>
Not having found 'Samnian' in the archives of this list, I suppose that the substitution here of 'Paul the Samnian' (whoever he is) is down to Terri, who may have been pulling our collective leg.
Further to Theodore the Stoudite:
T. (at right; at left, St. Stephen the Younger) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389) of the monastery church of St. Andrew at Matka (near Skopje) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3vkkwls
Best,
John Dillon
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