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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 21. December (including the prophet Micah; St. Themistocles; St. Hoger; Bl. Domenico Spadafora):
http://tinyurl.com/czrung5
All of the links in that earlier post still work. Herewith a few additions to the visuals for the prophet Micah:
A much clearer view of Micah as depicted in the twelfth-century mosaics of the cathedral of Cefalù will be found here (expand the image; Micah is second from right in the third register from bottom):
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/3cefalu/7cefalu.jpg
Micah seeing the Lord's watchtower (Mic 4:8) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century sculpture (betw. 1220 and 1236) on the west front of the cathedral of Amiens:
http://tinyurl.com/d4kotzn
Other of Micah's prophecies (Mic 4:3-4) as depicted in the same sculptures on the west front of the cathedral of Amiens:
http://tinyurl.com/cz4gpj5
http://tinyurl.com/czu4v3y
http://tinyurl.com/coomg4t
Another view of Micah as depicted by Jan van Eyck in a lunette on a wing of his G(h)ent Altarpiece (1432) in that city's cathedral of Sint Baaf / Saint Bavo:
http://tinyurl.com/88jnpe7
Micah as depicted on the late fifteenth-century rood screen (donated, 1488) in All Saints' Church, Thornham (Norfolk):
http://tinyurl.com/cr4d8hz
While we're here, a page on the church with many views of the rood screen:
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thornham/thornham.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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