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Herewith links to last year's "Saints of the day" for 27. December. This was in two parts, viz.
1) John, apostle and evangelist:
http://tinyurl.com/7da375r
2) Fabiola; Nicarete; Theodore "Graptos" and Theophanes "Graptos":
http://tinyurl.com/7maf6ln
Further to John, apostle and evangelist:
The page at Italia nell'Arte Medievale on the originally earlier fifth-century basilica di San Giovanni Evangelista at Ravenna is back on line.
John (at left; at right, St. Mark, apostle and evangelist) as depicted in the restored eleventh-century frescoes of the Karanlık kilise (Dark Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province:
http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/41566368
John as depicted in the restored eleventh-century frescoes of the Elmalı kilise (Apple Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province:
http://tinyurl.com/3rhjvlh
John as depicted at the Transfiguration in the later twelfth-century frescoes (1164) in the church of St. Panteleimon at Gorno Nerezi (Skopje municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7fp9zm8
John as depicted a) at far left, stepping on the foot of another apostle (Andrew?) at the Raising of Lazarus and b) at center, at the Last Supper in the late thirteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1295) by the painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv. Climent Novi) in Ohrid:
a) http://tinyurl.com/6nnkzqk
b) http://tinyurl.com/7hbb6mu
John (at left; at right, Longinus) as depicted at the Crucifixion in the late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1300), attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/6qu4h2j
John as depicted in the later fourteenth-century frescoes (1360s and 1370s; restored in 1968-1970) in the church of St. Demetrius in Marko's Monastery at Markova Sušica (near Skopje) in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/757ud5t
John as depicted on an early fifteenth-century icon (1408) painted by Andrei Rublev for the Dormition cathedral in Vladimir and now in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (image expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/6tuo6ct
Further to the brothers "Graptoi":
Last year's link to a modern English translation of Theophanes' canon on Mary Magdalen no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.anastasis.org.uk/22julcan.htm
A closer view of Theophanes as depicted in the late twelfth-century frescoes (1192; cleaned and restored, late 1960s and early 1970s) in the church of the Panagia tou Arakou at Lagoudera in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://tinyurl.com/6az2b9j
The second URL given last year for Theophanes' depiction in the originally early thirteenth-century frescoes (repainted in 1569) in the church of the Theokos in the Studenica monastery no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/d7ea5tq
Best,
John Dillon
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