medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, at 5:07 am, John Briggs wrote:
> John Dillon wrote:
> >
> > Today (27. September) is the feast day of:
>
> Cosmas and Damian
>
> In the Hereford Calendar, a Feast with three lessons.
For reasons that elude me, in the great rearrangement in 1969 of the
Roman Calendar C. and D. were moved to 26. September. Not a few Italian
communities have C. and D. as patrons and hold annual festivals in their
honor at about this time; of these, Taranto at least seems still to be
celebrating them liturgically today.
Herewith a few visuals pertaining to C. and D. (but not including their
church off the Roman Forum; I plan to post links to views of this on 12.
October).
The originally tenth-century entrance to the monastery of San Cosimato
at Rome:
http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi151f.jpg
The eleventh-century book cover of the Gospels of Theophanu of Essen
(1029-ca. 1058), showing C. and D. (the patron saints of the monastery
she founded here) beneath Sts. Peter and Paul:
http://www.bodarwe.de/buch.jpg
Later C. and D. became patrons of the city of Essen as well.
Views of the originally eleventh-century church of Santi Cosma e Damiano
at Genoa:
http://tinyurl.com/f5ctz
The twelfth-century crypt of Sts. Cosmas and Damian in the church of St.
Wenceslas (Vaclav) at Stará Boleslav (German: Altbunzlau) in the Czech
Republic:
http://tinyurl.com/jnroz
In 922, St. Wenceslas (Václav) was murdered before the door of an
oratory on this site dedicated to C. and D.
The orginally twelfth-/thirteenth-century church of Santi Cosma e
Damiano at San Damiano d'Asti (AT) in Piedmont:
facade and belltower:
http://www.ilmonferrato.info/at/sdamia/sancosma.jpg
rear:
http://www.ilmonferrato.info/at/sdamia/scosma.jpg
Even the more obviously medieval portions here seem to have been worked
over in later centuries.
C. and D.'s shrine (ca. 1400) in Munich's Michaelskirche:
http://tinyurl.com/kdkwq
Views of three paintings by Fra Angelico having to do with C. and D.
will be found on this page (about halfway down):
http://www.artunframed.com/angelico.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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