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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 23. August (including Sts. Timothy and Apollinaris of Reims; St. Zacchaeus of Jerusalem; Sts. Abundius and Irenaeus of Rome; Sts. Cyriacus and Archelaus; St. Lupus of Svishtov [better, of Novae -- see below]; St. Flavianus of Autun; St. Éogan mac Dega):
http://tinyurl.com/cs2gqz3
Further to Lupus of Svishtov:
In the lemma to that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'of Svishtov' please read 'of Novae'. A large Roman castrum existed at a place called Novae south of the Danube in Moesia Superior at what is now the locality of Čezava in northern Serbia. Although Theophylact Simocatta (our sole source for Lupus' veneration at Novae in 594) appears to be reporting on the activity of the curopalates Peter along the lower Danube frontier, it is still within the realm of possibility that this garrison town in Moesia Superior and not the Novae in Moesia Inferior at what is now Svishtov in Bulgaria is where Lupus' celebration actually took place. The RM -- on what basis is not clear -- has opted for the alternative in Serbia (and calls the place 'Novi' rather than 'Novae'; the latter is standard among historians and archeologists of the Roman empire's Danube provinces). Whether or not that choice of location is correct, it does seem slightly imprudent to call this saint 'of Svishtov' when the more ambiguous 'of Novae' is available.
That said, herewith an illustrated, English-language on the remains of the military camp of Novae in what is now Svishtov:
http://bulgariatravel.org/en/object/25/Antichen_grad_Nove
A revised set of visuals for Lupus of Novae:
Lupus as depicted in a fresco of ca. 1300, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/43kwxft
Detail views (also better resolution):
http://tinyurl.com/27hefon
http://tinyurl.com/24gvupq
Lupus (at right; at left and center, the martyrdom of St. Demetrius) as depicted in an October calendar scene in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/383dspm
Detail (Lupus):
http://tinyurl.com/2ukjzev
Lupus as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1330) in the church of the Holy Savior (Sv. Spas) at Kuceviste in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3ezm365
Lupus as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the nave of 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/3y9wowj
Lupus (at left; the others are St. Artemius the Great Martyr and St. Mercurius of Caesarea) as depicted in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545 and 1546) by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the catholicon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3h4qdoo
Best,
John Dillon
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