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Icons of St. Sylvester, Pope
of Old Rome
Feast: Dec. 30
Top Icon: from the Serbian
Moraca monastery, the small St. Nicholas Chapel, by the hand of master
Ioann Cosmas, late 17th c. (Thank you, servant of God Ugljesa). St. Sylvester is wearing a
Western-style mitre. This style was later replaced in the 13th c. by
the "Gothic" mitre, which later gave way to the "fish head" style
mitre.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance, with Greek inscription.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Next Icon: by the hand of
Hieromonk Cassien, Greek Old Calendarist Hermitage, Clara, France.
Next Icon: from a Mosan
cross-reliquary, this enamel shows the Baptism by St. Sylvester of
Emperor Constantine the Great--an ancient tradition.
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