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Today (20. October) is the feast day of:
Leopardus of Osimo (?). One of the ancient saints of Osimo (MC; accent
on the first syllable) in the Marche and believed in the Middle Ages to
have been its bishop, L. has a 15th- or 16th-century Life (BHL 4884)
that dates him to the fifth century, confounds him with another saint of
this name, and is generally quite unreliable.
In 1296 L.'s remains were discovered in the cathedral (this Inventio
is recounted in detail in Osimo's 14th-century statutes); these were
verified by the presence of a silver plaque, said to have been found on
the saint's breast, bearing the inscription SCS [sanctus]
LEOPARDVS. This plaque (in Italian, "lamina") is now one of the
treasures of Osimo's diocesan museum. Formerly dated to the ninth
century, it is now thought to be of the seventh or the eighth (when the
March of Ancona was experiencing its Byzantine "Indian summer" as part
of east central Italy's Pentapolis) and to have been the cover of a
gospel-book. The best view I could find quickly on the Web is here:
http://www.comune.osimo.an.it/museo/le_opere/lamina_di_s.htm
A drawing of this object's upper side is here:
http://www.santiebeati.it/immagini/Original/90484/90484.JPG
Osimo's cathedral, dedicated to L., is an eleventh- and twelfth-century
"romanesque" structure that received noticeable "gothic" alterations in
the late thirteenth century. A brief, illustrated Italian-language
account of this building is here:
http://tinyurl.com/cdk9b
Another, with many expandable views, is here:
http://medioevo.org/artemedievale/Pages/Marche/Osimo.html
A few further exterior views:
http://www.pasadena.it/duomoo.jpg
http://ccconero.altervista.org/gite/photos/photo_25.html
http://www.comune.osimo.an.it/foto/duomo_facciata.jpg
Exterior details:
http://www.comune.osimo.an.it/foto/duomo_facciata_particolare.jpg
http://www.comune.osimo.an.it/foto/duomo_rosone.jpg
One view of the crypt is here:
http://www.comune.osimo.an.it/foto/duomo_cripta.jpg
And a minivideo of the same part of the building is here (scroll down to
'Cultura'):
http://www.osimo.tv/PROGRAMMI.ASP
There is a brief article on L. by Giacomo Boccanera in the _Bibliotheca
Sanctorum_, vol. 7, cols. 1333-35. For the inventio of 1296, see Diana
Webb, _Patrons and Defenders: The Saints in the Italian City-states_
(London: I. B. Tauris, 1996), pp. 106, 129, 146-48.
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post, lightly revised)
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