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We seem to have gone without a "Feasts and Saints" for 4. December this year. One hopes that nothing amiss has befallen Terri. Herewith links to last year's "Saints of the Day" for 4. December, which was in two parts.
Part 1, covering Barbara, Meletius of Pontus, Felix of Bologna, and John of Damascus:
http://tinyurl.com/czc7qgl
Further to Barbara:
Barbara as depicted in the later twelfth-century frescoes (betw. 1160 and 1190) of the church of St. Nicholas Kasnitzes in Kastoria in northwestern Greece:
http://tinyurl.com/7j7pd27
A slightly closer view of Barbara's portrait in the church of the Theotokos of Ljeviš in Prizren:
http://tinyurl.com/77ozky3
Further to John of Damascus:
John of Damascus (at left; at right, St. Macarius the Elder) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389; restored in 1971 and 1972) in the monastery church of St. Andrew at Matka in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3es52jx
John of Damascus (at center, betw. Sts. John Climacus and Arsenius the Great) as depicted in a late fifteenth- or early-sixteenth-century Novgorod School double-sided tablet icon from the St. Sophia cathedral in Novgorod and now in the Museum of History and Architecture there:
http://tinyurl.com/86jeonz
Part 2, covering Sualo, Osmund, and Bernard of Parma:
http://tinyurl.com/cbmdlmb
Bernard of Parma's notice had a follow-up here:
http://tinyurl.com/cqdgbq8
Best,
John Dillon
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