58 St Clement of Ohrid This wooden high relief, 141 by 33 centimetres in size, dates from the fourteenth century. Clement’s shoulders are covered by a bishop’s omophorion, and the book he holds symbolises his educational work.
57 St Constantine-Cyril This painting in the lower church of San Clemente in Rome is usually dated to the second half of the ninth century, and is believed by many authorities to represent St Constantine-Cyril, the Apostle of the Slavs. It may thus be a contemporary, or near contemporary, portrait.
59 St Sava Remarkable for its spirituality and psychological subtlety, this portrait of the greatest churchman in Serbia’s history was painted c. 1234 the narthex of the monastery church of Mileseva, which became the centre of St Sava’s cult.
60 St Sergius of Radonezh Russia’s greatest monastic saint {d. 1392) prepared himself for his life as a teacher of men by a period of solitary ascetic training in the forests north of Moscow. According to his medieval biographer he was visited by animals and gained the friendship of a bear. The story is illustrated in this miniature from a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century Russian manuscript of his life.
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