medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
1) Phyllis Jestice wrote:
> Today (4. October) is the feast day of:
> Petronius (d. c. 445) Petronius seems to have been a Roman official
> who became a cleric. He went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land,
> returned to become bishop of Bologna in c. 432, and set out to
> rebuild churches destroyed by the Goths---modeling them on the
> structures he had seen in Palestine.
A useful recent book on P. and his cult, with scholarly articles and
texts of his prosimetric twelfth-century Life (BHL 6641) and his later
medieval Office, is Enzo Lodi, ed., _San Petronio. Patrono della citta'
e diocesi di Bologna_ (Bologna: Edizioni Renografica, 2000; xiii, 298pp.).
P.'s basilica is Bologna's cathedral church, begun in the 1390s.
Frontal views, showing the unfinished facade, are here:
http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/amarconi/rds/antenne/bologna/spetronio.html
The main portal
http://www.settechiese.it/01_2001/img/pag_08.jpg
is surmounted by the Madonna flanked by saints Ambrose and Petronius:
http://www.settechiese.it/01_2001/img/pag_07.jpg
This portal is noted for its early fifteenth-century reliefs by Jacopo
della Quercia. These are shown and discussed here:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/quercia/quercia.html
Better photographs, with expandable jpegs, are at:
http://www.thais.it/scultura/bosnpet.htm
and
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/q/quercia/bologna/42tempta.html
An interior fresco by Giovanni da Modena shows Mohammed being tortured
in hell:
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/moore/moore10-2-3.asp
This has been drawing some unfavorable attention lately:
http://www.armyofgod.com/Mohameddemons.html
and, for some context for the detail (well down on the page; search for
"Petronio"):
http://www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Thu-062702.index.html
2) I wrote:
> Today (4. October) is also the feast day of:
>
> Thomas of Celano (blessed; d. a. 1260).
This will make better sense if one reads "d. ca. 1260".
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