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Herewith links to last year's "Saints of the day" for 13. December. That was in two parts, viz.
Pt. 1 (Lucy):
http://tinyurl.com/7us4xkn
Pt. 2 (Antiochus of the Sulcis; Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugenius, Mardarius, and Orestes [the Five Companions or the Five Martyrs]; Judoc; and Odilia of Hohenburg):
http://tinyurl.com/cyoj5yz
Further to Lucy:
Lucy (at center; inscriptionally, LVCIA) as depicted in the procession of female saints in the heavily restored later sixth-century mosaics in Ravenna's basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo (image courtesy of Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/ApNNorth19.jpg
Further to Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugenius, Mardarius, and Orestes (as though last year's set were not sufficient):
Eustratius (at lower left) as portrayed on a leaf of the mid-tenth-century ivory Harbaville Triptych in the Museé du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/2fxlfnn
Eustratius (at center, above the arch) and Orestes (in the squinch to the left; identified inscriptionally as Orestios) as depicted in the mid-eleventh-century frescoes of the Elmalı kilise (Apple Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5364804.jpg
Moving further to the left from that last view, the saint in the left-hand squinch shown here (the one at right is Orestes) is Eugenius and the saint in the center of the larger panel even farther to the left is Auxentius (NB: the first of these views misidentifies the church; we're still in the Elmalı kilise):
http://tinyurl.com/7k8qwc7
http://tinyurl.com/cdrur3x
Mardarius (center, with red cap) and Eustratius (at left; the first character in his inscription is odd but the rest is clear and he has the double-clasped mantle typical of his iconography) as depicted in the mid-eleventh-century frescoes of the Karanlık kilise (Dark Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province:
http://tinyurl.com/7sywk6z
The saint depicted below Eustratius is Eugenius. Here's another view:
http://tinyurl.com/7h3jy3u
The saint sharing a soffit with Mardarius is Orestes (identified inscriptionally as Orestios). In this view he can be seen to the left of the Transfiguration:
http://tinyurl.com/brngcqt
Mardarius, Eugenius (very probably), Eustratius, Auxentius, and Orestes (in that order, from left to right and followed by St. Aithalas) as depicted in the roundels above a Dormition of the Theotokos in the late twelfth-century frescoes of the church of the Panagia tou Arakou at Lagoudera (Nicosia prefecture) in the Republic of Cyprus (for better viewing click on the image):
http://tinyurl.com/bwg3lja
Eustratius et al. (but only Eustratius has a legible inscription) in the earlier thirteenth-century frescoes (1230s) in the church of the Ascension at the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje (Zlatibor dist.) in Serbia:
Eustratius:
http://tinyurl.com/6y4zq4c
Auxentius (probably):
http://tinyurl.com/ct784kx
Eugenius (probably):
http://tinyurl.com/cf8m92c
Mardarius:
http://tinyurl.com/cnxcfc6
Orestes (probably):
http://tinyurl.com/bvwuhe9
Auxentius as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1312) in the katholikon of the Vatopedi monatery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3qpcxu7
Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugenius, and Mardarius as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1313 and ca. 1320) in the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
Eustratius:
http://tinyurl.com/22jscbc
Auxentius:
http://tinyurl.com/7g2x7pn
Eugenius:
http://tinyurl.com/7hs85no
Mardarius (the damaged portrait to M.'s left almost certainly was of Orestes):
http://tinyurl.com/6qfqgnw
A much better view of Eugenius as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century mosaics (betw. 1315 and 1321) of the exonarthex of the Chora church in Istanbul:
http://tinyurl.com/3neocsv
Auxentius and Orestes (upper and lower register, respectively) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in 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/74epakx
Detail view (Orestes; already in last year's set of visuals):
http://tinyurl.com/26njjkg
Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugenius, and Mardarius (lower register, in that order) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1386/1387) of the church of St. Athanasius of Mouzaki in Kastoria:
http://tinyurl.com/4ygjnkc
Detail view (Mardarius):
http://tinyurl.com/3sgyrwk
The Five Martyrs as depicted in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century icon in the museum of the Chilandar monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/7mx9eft
Eustratius (at left, with Sts. Artemius the Great Martyr and Polyeuctus of Melitene) in a later fifteenth- or earlier sixteenth-century Novgorod School icon now in the Museum of History and Architecture in Novgorod:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=810
Best,
John Dillon
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