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On Saturday, January 21, 2006, at 6:27 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Today (22. January) is the feast day of:
> Dominic of Sora (d. 1031) Dominic was a monk who worked actively
> as
> a monastery founder in Italy.
John Howe, in his __Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-century
Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons_ (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1997), placed D.'s death in the year 1032. This was widely
accepted by his Anglophone reviewers, less so by Italians. Thus
Anselmo Lentini's notice of D. in the _New Catholic Encyclopedia_, 2d
ed. (Catholic University of America Press, 2003), vol. 4, p. 832, cites
Howe in the bibliography but retains the traditional year of death,
1031; so also Annarita Martini, "Le fondazioni monastiche di san
Domenico di Sora e poteri locali tra fine X e XI secolo", _Società e
storia_, 22 (1999), 693-714, p. 693, n. 1, and, more popularly but
paying attention to scholarship, the website put up in 2001-03 by the
Confraternità di San Domenico Abate at Villalago (AQ) for the 900th
anniversary of D.'s canonization on 22. August 1104:
http://www.sandomenicoabatevillalago.it/sda/index.html
with bibliography (not always exact) here:
http://www.sandomenicoabatevillalago.it/sda/contenuti/citazioni.html
While we're doing bibliography, two other recent contributions are:
Teemu Immonen, "Il culto di San Domenico di Sora. Osservazioni sulle
relazioni tra i testi e la società del tempo", _Benedictina_ 50 (2003),
235-250.
idem, "The Cult of Saint Dominic of Sora: Hagiographical Texts and
their Contexts", in Flavia De Rubeis and Walter Pohl, eds., _Le
scritture dai monasteri. Atti del II° seminario internazionale di
studio “I Monasteri nell’alto medioevo” Roma 9-10 maggio 2002_ (Roma:
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae / Istituto Romano di Finlandia, 2003),
pp. 145-155.
D.'s activity took place in today's Lazio, Abruzzo, and Molise. His
last foundation, the monastery of Santa Maria between today's Isola del
Liri (FR) and Sora (FR), was renamed to include D. (along with the
original Marian dedication) by Paschal II and is generally referred to
as that of San Domenico at Sora. D., who is generally thought to have
been born in today's Foligno (PG) but who takes his name from here, was
buried in its church (today's parish church of San Domenico abate).
And here he has remained, with the exception of a brief interlude from
1799 to 1810, when he was a guest of Santa Restituta in Sora. The
church was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1915 and has undergone a
radical interior restoration (less radical, though, in the crypt, which
is where D.'s remains are). Some views of it are here:
Exterior:
http://www.nuovipanorami.it/italia/lazio/ciociaria/sora.jpg
http://www.diocesisora.it/A157.jpg
http://www.diocesisora.it/A19.jpg
http://www.sandomenicoabate.it/gallery/pagine/Absidi.htm
Exterior views with a little contemporary context lacking or barely
apparent in the
foregoing close-ups. In the first of these, the monastery (Cistercian
since 1222) is at the lower right:
http://www.diocesisora.it/A114.jpg
http://www.diocesisora.it/A115.jpg
Interior, prior to the earthquake of 1915:
http://www.sandomenicoabate.it/gallery/pagine/InternoAntico.htm
Interior, recent views:
http://www.sandomenicoabate.it/gallery/pagine/InternoAltare.htm
http://www.sandomenicoabate.it/gallery/pagine/InternoRosone.htm
Crypt:
http://www.sandomenicoabate.it/gallery/pagine/Cripta01.htm
http://www.sandomenicoabate.it/gallery/pagine/Cripta.htm
http://www.sandomenicoabatevillalago.it/sda/contenuti/fotosora3.html
D.'s altar, in the principal apse:
http://www.sandomenicoabate.it/gallery/pagine/AltareCripta.htm
http://www.sandomenicoabatevillalago.it/sda/contenuti/fotosora7.html
D's remains are in an "urna" visible from behind the altar:
http://www.sandomenicoabatevillalago.it/sda/contenuti/fotosora5.html
http://www.sandomenicoabatevillalago.it/sda/contenuti/fotosora6.html
Best,
John Dillon
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