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For some visuals related to the cult of the megalomartyr Pantaleon, see
below.
On Tuesday, July 26, 2005, at 8:20 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Pantaleon (early 4th cent.?) Nothing historical is known about
> this
> saint, but there's a very lovely church dedicated to him in
> Cologne.
Indeed, there is.
An online guide (German-language), with one internal and one external
view on its first page, is here:
http://www.pantaleon-koeln.de/Kirchenfuhrer/hauptteil_kirchenfuhrer.html
But going here gets you to a menu (on left) of links to other views:
http://www.pantaleon-koeln.de/Galerie/Kirche/kirche.htm
Sankt Pantaleon is the burial church of St. Bruno I of Köln (Otto I's
brother):
http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/b/bruno_i_e_v_k.shtml
and of the empress Theophano (in German and in most of the Latin
sources, Theophanu), a Byzantine princess and Otto II's wife:
http://www.kts-koeln.de/wir/theo.htm
This church underwent major transformations in the eighteenth century
and then was heavily damaged in World War II. So most of what one sees
today is restoration work. An illustrated, German-language history of
the building is here:
http://www.romanische-kirchen.de/asp/sitec7f4.html
That, BTW, is part of the wonderful site on Köln's "romanesque"
churches, http://www.romanische-kirchen.de/
that stays up thanks to the patronage of several of Köln's banks.
Returning to Phyllis and to Pantaleon:
> There are relics of his blood at Madrid and
> Ravello---the Ravello sample is said to liquefy on his feast day.
Ravello's cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and of St. Pantaleon
also underwent major rebuilding in the eighteenth century. Some
exterior views are here:
http://www.wagnertours.it/duomo/ravello_duomo_1.htm
http://www.hotelcaruso.com/web/orav/orav_duomo_cathedral.jsp
An English-language overview of the cathedral's history, with exertior
and interior views, including a detail of the famous bronze doors by
Barisano of Trani, is here:
http://www.ravellotime.it/en/visitare_ravello/duomo.asp
Four pages of exterior and interior views, showing -- among other
things -- the cosmatesque side ambo and the gospel pulpit, are here:
http://www.ravellointernational.it/duomo/ravello_duomo_1.htm
http://www.ravellointernational.it/duomo/ravello_duomo_2.htm
http://www.ravellointernational.it/duomo/ravello_duomo_3.htm
http://www.ravellointernational.it/duomo/ravello_duomo_4.htm
A better view of the side ambo, with figures interpreted as Jonah and
the Whale, is here:
http://www.giovis.com/canon/ravambone.jpg
And futher views of the gospel pulpit are here:
http://www.giovis.com/canon/ravpulptut.jpg
http://www.giovis.com/canon/ravpulpito.jpg
Finally -- not medieval --, views of the cathedral's 17th-18th-century
chapel of St. Pantaleon and of the liquid in his reliquary are here:
http://www.chiesaravello.com/chiese/cappellasanpantaleone/index.asp
Best,
John Dillon
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