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With the edition of 2001, Arsenius the Great's day of commemoration in Roman Martyrology changed from 19. July to 8. May. The latter date is also where Arsenius appears in the Synaxary of Constantinople and is his modern feast day in churches using the Byzantine Rite.
Some medieval images of Arsenius the Great:
a) as depicted in an earlier tenth-century fresco (ca. 913-920) in the former monastery church of St. John (a.k.a. Ayvalı kilise) in Güllu Dere in Turkey's Uşak province:
http://tinyurl.com/2bn2hpx
b) as depicted (at right, after Sts. Anthony of Egypt and Euthymius the Great) in the later twelfth-century frescoes (ca. 1180) in the church of Agioi Anargyroi in Kastoria in northwestern Greece:
http://tinyurl.com/24zatvz
c) as depicted in the late twelfth-century mosaics of the basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale:
http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/visits/sicily/monreale/images/810saint.jpg
d) as depicted(between Sts. Euthymius the Great and Paul of Thebes) in the earlier thirteenth-century frescoes (1230s) of the narthex in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje (Zlatibor dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/yatk74n
Detail view (Arsenius):
http://tinyurl.com/ylam5nc
e) as depicted in the late thirteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1285) by Eutychios and Michael Astrapas in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv. Kliment Ohridski) in Ohrid:
http://tinyurl.com/pw76edw
f) as depicted in the very late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1290-1305) attributed to Manuel Panselinos in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/npre9uy
g) as depicted in the early fourteenth-century mosaics (ca. 1312) in the parecclesion (now a museum) of the former monastery church of the Pammakaristos (Fethiye cmii) in Istanbul:
http://tinyurl.com/25yx4mn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/efendi/602197729/
h) as depicted in the early fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1315) in the katholikon of the Sotiros Kalothetou monastery in Veroia / Veria (Imathia prefecture) in northern Greece:
http://tinyurl.com/292qrqk
i) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Paul of Thebes) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Eutychios and Michael Astrapas in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/ox7unpk
Detail view (Arsenius):
https://plus.google.com/photos/110067756467697073060/albums/5245687190076668897/5245688620306375634?pid=5245688620306375634&oid=110067756467697073060
j) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Anthony of Egypt) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1330) in the church dedicated to the Presentation of the Virgin but known as that of the Holy Savior (Sv. Spas) at Kuceviste in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/nfxnxkg
Detail view (Arsenius):
http://tinyurl.com/npm5bay
k) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Anthony of Egypt) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the nave 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/26y77xp
Detail view (both saints:
http://tinyurl.com/2a8y64h
l) as depicted (very probably; painted legend not visible) in the mid-fourteenth-century frescoes (1340s) of the monastery church of St. Michael the Archangel at Lesnovo (Probištip municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/pfhk37a
m) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Ephraem the Syrian) in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389; restored in 1971/72) in the monastery church of St. Andrew at Matka in Skopje's municipality of Karpoš
http://tinyurl.com/nftkmrp
n) as depicted in the earlier fifteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1407 and 1413) in the church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Kalenić monastery in Belgrade's municipality of Vračar:
http://www.monumentaserbica.com/mushushu/images/122.jpg
o) as depicted (receiving with disdain a noblewoman; praying during his Sunday vigils) in a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1470) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay followed by the _Festes nouvelles_ attributed to Jean Golein (Mâcon, Médiathèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 85v):
http://tinyurl.com/p4hxlm8
p) as depicted (at right, with Sts. John Climacus and John of Damascus) in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Novgorod School icon in the Museum of History and Architecture in Novgorod:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=1602
q) as depicted in an earlier sixteenth-century fresco (1540) by Theofanis Stelitzas-Bathas in the katholikon of the Koutloumousiou monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://www.skete.com/images/products/icons/S357lg.jpg
r) as depicted by George / Tzortzis the Cretan in the mid-sixteenth-century frescoes (1546/47) in the katholikon of the Dionysiou monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/qh4nqje
Best,
John Dillon
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“He was born in 350 AD, in Rome to a Christian, Roman senatorial family. After his parents died, his sister Afrositty was admitted to a community of virgins, and he gave all their riches to the poor, and lived an ascetic life. Arsenius became famous for his righteousness and wisdom.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenius_the_Great)
Peace,
Matt H.
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