medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (15. November) is the feast day of:
Felix of Nola (d. 484). According to his funerary inscription (_CIL_ X, 1344), today's less well known saint of the Regno became bishop of Nola (in today's Napoli province of Campania) in 473. Apart from that datum and the date of his death, furnished by the same inscription, we really know nothing about him. The St. Felix whom Paulinus of Nola (d. 431) celebrated annually in his verse and in whose honor the Basilica di San Felice at Cimitile (outside of Nola) is dedicated is a saint of the mid-third century who, in some accounts, declined to be named bishop. The two were repeatedly confused, leading to our F.'s being given a quite legendary Passio (BHL 2869) in which he is said to have been Nola's first bishop, put to death for his faith under the emperor Valerian (253-60). Versions of this tale entered the Carolingian martyrologies. In those of Florus and of Ado F. was entered under today's date, as he also has been in succeeding versions of the RM (the other Felix
associated with Nola, F. the priest, is celebrated on 14. January).
In the absence of visuals for the aforementioned F., herewith a page of expandable views of portraits of another of today's saints, Albertus Magnus (d. 1280; canonized, 1931), and of his sarcophagus in Köln's Dominican church of Sankt Andreas:
http://www.sankt-andreas.de/module/galleries/index.php/3/3/0
and a German-language guide to that church:
http://www.sankt-andreas.de/kirchenfuehrer/deutsch.php/1
A briefer, English-language version is here:
http://www.sankt-andreas.de/kirchenfuehrer/english.php/1
An exterior view:
http://tinyurl.com/y8shzw
Interior (nave, looking towards choir):
http://www.sankt-andreas.de/module/galleries/index.php/4/4/9/221
Interior, 360-degree view:
http://www.sankt-andreas.de/kirche/360grad_ansicht.php/1
Best,
John Dillon
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