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Today (3. March) is also the feast day of:
1. Arthellais (Artellais; also forms with single 'l'; d. ca. 560,
supposedly). Today's less well known saint from the Regno has an
incident-laden, highly fictional Vita that survives in at least three
versions of differing length (BHL 718-720). A partial account of the
_Perils of Pauline_-like story of this high-born, youthful virgin forced
to flee her native Constantinople for the safety of her uncle Narses'
Italy (where she settles down in Benevento and becomes a local saint),
will be found in the list's Archives at:
http://tinyurl.com/kkhj4
Most of that posting's links still work. Those from the
diocesidiBenevento site do not, so here instead is the menu for that
part of the archdiocese's current site dealing with Benevento's
cathedral and related cultural patrimony:
http://tinyurl.com/hlysd
Another page on the cathedral's famous bronze doors, with subordinate
pages that open up when one clicks on individual panels, is here:
http://www.donatocalabrese.it/benevento/portabro/januamaj.htm
2. Anselm of Nonantola (d. 803). Duke of Friuli and brother-in-law of
the Lombard king Aistulf, A. became a cleric and with his
brother-in-law's support founded, a couple of years after the Lombard
conquest of Ravenna in ca. 750, a monastery near Bologna along the main
road from Emilia and the Lombard capitals in the north. This became the
great abbey of (pope) St. Sylvester at Nonantola, whose later
reconstruction of its early history included an imagined papal donation
of S.'s remains to abbot A. The latter's tenure did include the
creation of several dependencies; it was interrupted for the entirety of
the reign of king Desiderius, when another abbot was appointed and A.
lived in exile at Montecassino. He was restored after Charlemagne's
conquest of the Lombard kingdom in 774 and assisted in reconciling the
count and the bishop of Brescia (both nephews of Desiderius) with their
new overlord, the king of the Franks.
A thumbnail view of the Astolf and Anselm panel from the main portal of
the abbey church of San Silvestro at Nonantola is here:
http://tinyurl.com/qcwkm
Best,
John Dillon
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