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Today (5. September) is the feast day of:
1. Quintus of Capua (?). Today's less well known saint of the Regno is
entered for this date in the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology as the
first of a group of three martyrs from Capua, the others being Arcontius
and Donatus. The same group recurs for today in Ado and Usuard, again
as martyrs of Capua and without any further description. If Delehaye
(_Comm. perpet. in Mart. Hier._, ad loc.) is correct, the group _qua_
group is erroneous, A. being a textual corruption of the Acontius of
Porto listed for today in the _Depositio Martyrum_ of 354 and otherwise
absent from the (ps.-)HM and D. being a doublet of the Donatus of Felix
and Donatus, Apulian martyrs entered in the (ps.-)HM for 1. September.
Q., on the other hand, is a bit more secure, as a saint of this name was
depicted in the now lost apse mosaics of the church of St. Priscus at
today's San Prisco (CE) in Campania, an extramural survivor of (old)
Capua. But we know nothing else about him.
2. Albert of Butrio (d. 1074). In the 1020s A. founded in southwestern
Lombardy a hermitage that in time became a wealthy Benedictine abbey (in
1158 it received the entire county of Pizzocorno) and is now the Eremo
di Sant'Alberto at Ponte Nizza (PV). His tomb is in the abbey's church
of Sant'Alberto, the successor to his original church of the BVM.
Here's A. as he's depicted in the restored late-medieval frescoes of the
abbey's church of Sant'Antonio (the successor to Sant'Alberto as the
abbey's principal church):
http://www.salussola.net/immagini/viaggi/sanalberto%2019.jpg
A page of views of the church of Sant'Antonio, of the twelfth-century
cloister, and of the frescoes in Sant'Antonio:
http://www.salussola.net/immagini/viaggi/santalbertodibutrio.html
Another view of the cloister:
http://users.libero.it/gfuria/pontenizza/images/albert1.jpg
3. Albert of Pontida (Albert of Prezzate; d. 1095 or 1099) and Guy of
Pontida (Guido of Pontida; d. later 11th cent.). Albert was a soldier
who after being seriously wounded undertook a pilgrimage to Compostella
and who in 1079 together with his companion Guy founded a Cluniac house
at what today is Pontida (BG) in Lombardy. Guy became the first prior
here and upon his death was succeeded by Albert. Both were interred in
the priory church and remained there until after the latter's
destruction by fire in 1373, when their remains were taken to Bergamo.
They were returned to Pontida (now operating as a Benedictine monastery)
in 1911.
Fragments of Albert's sarcophagus have been set into the altar of the
modern basilica at Pontida:
http://fsc.cluny.free.fr/ressources/sites/pontida/pontida5.jpg
They are also shown in this engraving:
http://www.ora-et-labora.net/image012.jpg
An expandable image of the relief with the equestrian figure is here:
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/aa32cf67.html
Best,
John Dillon
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