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Herewith links to last year's "Saints of the day" for 26. December. This was in two parts, viz.
1) Stephen, protomartyr:
http://tinyurl.com/7e8efrj
to which Gordon Plumb kindly added a link to his page of views of the Discovery of the Relics of St Stephen window in the cathedral of Bourges:
http://tinyurl.com/3qhsd3r
and
2) pope Dionysius; Zeno of Maiuma; pope Zosimus; Bl. Richlindis:
http://tinyurl.com/7fn3c2a
Further to St. Stephen:
Stephen (second from right) as depicted in the late sixth-century arch mosaic in Rome's basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura:
http://tinyurl.com/7ccmb62
The Stoning of Stephen as depicted in a mid-ninth-century fresco (before 860) in the crypt of the église Saint-Germain at Auxerre:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27305838@N04/4971072490/#/
The Stoning of Stephen (lower register) and Stephen in Glory (upper register) as portrayed in eleventh- or twelfth-century reliefs on the north facade of the church of the abbey of St. Benedict (abbaye de Fleury) at Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Loiret):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biron-philippe/5401591839/
Before cleaning:
http://www.art-roman.net/stbenoit/stbenoit6x.jpg
http://www.art-roman.net/stbenoit/stbenoit8x.jpg
A closer view of the earlier twelfth-century capital of the Stoning of Stephen in Autun's cathédrale Saint-Lazare:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/34872303.jpg
The Stoning of Stephen as depicted on a twelfth-century reliquary châsse, of Limoges manufacture, in the église Saint-Priest at Gimel-les-Cascades (Corrèze):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6289335078/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6289485924/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6289484594/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6289483352/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/6289483964/
Stephen (lower register, at left) as depicted in the thirteenth-century frescoes (either betw. 1263 and 1270 or slightly later) of the chapel of St. George in the monastery church of the Holy Trinity at Sopoćani (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/7yhpbob
The Stoning of Stephen as portrayed in later thirteenth-century reliefs (ca. 1270) in the cathedral museum at Mainz:
http://flickriver.com/photos/hen-magonza/4521702364/
Detail views:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/4521701422/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/4521068201/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/4521070303/
Two rather different portraits of Stephen 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/632d7bt
b) http://tinyurl.com/3kz6cmc
Stephen as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1319) by the painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the katholikon of the Chilandar monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/75886dp
Stephen addressing the Pharisees and the Stoning of Stephen as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the nave of the church of the Holy Ascension in 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/7caevly
http://tinyurl.com/7r452vs
Detail of the Stoning (Stephen):
http://tinyurl.com/7o55psa
A black-and-white view of the Stoning of Stephen as depicted in the earlier fifteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1430-ca. 1450; uncovered in 1939 and restored from 1997 to 2002) in the St.-Johanniskirche at Sandstedt (Lkr. Cuxhaven) in Niedersachsen:
http://kirche.tokx.net/images-6/steinigung.jpg
The actual color of these paintings seems to be largely faded red on a cream ground, as seen here:
http://tinyurl.com/87m2d9b
The Stoning scene can be seen here, high on the north(?) wall:
http://tinyurl.com/6wb3dw7
Best,
John Dillon
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