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Further to Abercius of Hierapolis:
Abercius (at left; at right, St. Niphon of Cyprus) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) of the chapel of the Most Holy Theotokos in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/4kgre2l
Detail view (Abercius):
http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/11/61/74/35/s2-e1e10.jpg
Several views of what's left of the originally eleventh-century katholikon of the monastery of St. Abercius at Kurşunlu in Turkey's Çankırı province begin here (follow the image menu at upper right):
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/29265441
Other views:
http://tinyurl.com/6l3r45d
http://tinyurl.com/6agsyb7
The last image here is an interior view (the cleric is the ecumenical patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I):
http://www.amen.gr/index.php?mod=news&op=article&aid=5682
It's been announced that the church is to be restored as a museum.
Best again,
John Dillon
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