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Yesterday (8. July) was the feast day of:
Hadrian (Adrian) III, pope (d. 885). H. was elected pope in 884. We
know little of his brief pontificate. He died in Emilia while on his
way north to a council in Frankia and was buried at the abbey of
Nonantola. A cult in his honor developed here (its chief literary
monument is a brief, perhaps mid-eleventh-century Life in leonine
hexameters) and was officially confirmed in 1891.
The abbey of St. Sylvester (pope St. Sylvester I) at Nonantola (MO),
founded in the mid-eighth century by a brother-in-law of the Lombard
king Aistulf, was one of medieval Italy's great monasteries. In 1117
the church was severely damaged by an earthquake; what one sees today
is an imaginative modern restoration (1913-21) of the structure as
rebuilt in the twelfth century plus its better preserved eleventh-
century crypt. A few views in color:
http://www.abbazia-nonantola.net/pagine/percorsi.html
http://tinyurl.com/er2eg
http://www.mondimedievali.net/Edifici/Emilia/images/nonantol01.jpg
http://www.youritaly.com/comuni/comune_nonantola_36027.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nonantola_abside.jpg
http://www.tibethouse.net/celebrazioni/immagini/nonantola_big.jpg
Two pages of black-and-white views from the Courtauld, mostly details
of the famous sculptures on the portal:
http://tinyurl.com/7snpg
And a detail (color):
http://tinyurl.com/ngrof
Best,
John Dillon
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