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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 27. October (including pope St. Evaristus; St. Thraseas; St. Nestor of Thessaloniki; St. Namatius of Clermont; St. Gaudiosus of Abitina, ven. at Naples; St. Otteran [or Oran]; Bl. Bartholomew of Breganze):
http://tinyurl.com/8cyof89
Further to Nestor of Thessaloniki:
A revised set of links to portrayals of Nestor:
Nestor as depicted (above St. Demetrius) in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/25ykouk
Nestor as depicted in an eleventh-century fresco in the monastery church of St. John the Theologian (Sv. Ioan Bogoslov) at Zemen in western Bulgaria:
http://tinyurl.com/2ewlt3w
Nestor (roundel at bottom left; above him in the same arch soffit are St. Demetrius and St. George of Lydda) as depicted in the mid-twelfth-century mosaics of the basilica di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa dell Martorana) in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/23oba3r
Nestor (upper register at right, after St. George of Lydda and St. Demetrius) as depicted in a probably later twelfth-century mosaic in the cathedral of Cefalù:
http://tinyurl.com/82ogbay
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/7s8cye2
Nestor 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/379btnk
http://tinyurl.com/22vx2fl
Nestor as depicted in the earlier thirteenth-century frescoes (1230s) in the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension in the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje (Zlatibor dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/27mb9ga
http://tinyurl.com/2f9d2uv
Nestor as depicted in the late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century frescoes, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3uthuqx
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/6euqu9c
Nestor (usually so identified; perhaps St. Procopius of Scythopolis) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) of the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5104/5683219880_17fe2cf05c.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/3ut5don
Nestor (full-length-portrait) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George in Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/servia/82.jpg
Nestor's martyrdom as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George in Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/servia/162.jpg
Nestor as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the prothesis of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/27xxwz8
Nestor (at left; at right, a bit of St. Demetrius) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) under the dome in the nave of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/8p29xds
Detail view (Nestor):
http://tinyurl.com/96rf64z
Nestor as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the west bay of the nave of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending oupn one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/2a8sh62
Nestor slaying the gladiator Lyaeus and Nestor's martyrdom as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the parecclesion of St. Demetrius in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/28x28mr
http://tinyurl.com/2b6xbfo
Nestor as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (later 1380s?) in the nave of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Ravanica monastery near Ćuprija in central Serbia (two views taken with different lighting):
http://tinyurl.com/8jctomr
http://tinyurl.com/8vamw7v
Nestor (at center, betw. St. Arethas of Najran and St. Nicetas the Goth) as depicted in the earlier fifteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1406 and 1418) in the church of the Holy Trinity at the Manasija monastery near Despotovac (Pomoravlje dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/8uzt7p4
Nestor as depicted in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545 and 1546) by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/96jfasm
Best,
John Dillon
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