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Today (14. October) is the feast day of:
Lupulus of Capua (??). Today's less well known saint of the Regno
appears in mangled entries for today and for tomorrow in the
(pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology. He was prominently represented among
the local saints of the now lost apse mosaics of the late fifth-/early
sixth-century church of St. Priscus at today's San Prisco (CE), an
extramural survivor of (Old) Capua, where he was also figured in the
cupola mosaics together with St. Rufus of Capua. That early
eighth-century inheritor of late antique Campanian liturgical practices,
St. Willibrord's Epternach calendar, records him for tomorrow (15.
October) along with other Campanian saints. Under the name form
'Libulus' he is listed for tomorrow by Rabanus Maurus and by Notker,
both of whom associate him with St. Fortunata of Patria. Later medieval
calendars of the diocese of Capua also have L. celebrated on 15.
October. Eleventh- and twelfth-century notices of a church dedicated
to him at Grottola in Campania and of a town called Sanctus Lupulus in
northern Puglia testify to the dissemination of his cult.
Herewith some views of a structure with which L. will presumably have
been familiar, the amphitheatre of Roman-period Capua, now the
Anfiteatro Campano at Santa Maria Capua Vetere (CE):
http://www.italiantourism.com/fotoenit/prew_2100000072101.jpg
http://www.italiantourism.com/fotoenit/prew_2100000072095.jpg
http://www.italiantourism.com/fotoenit/prew_2100000072125.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/yn7nhp
And a view of a structure in the same town erected for worship services
by a religion with which early Christianity had to contend, the mithreum
of Santa Maria Capua Vetere:
http://www.sunnyart.com/mithra/mitrei/capua.htm
Detail (tauroctony):
http://tinyurl.com/ygcj79
Best,
John Dillon
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