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Today (17. November) is the feast day of:
Anianus of Orléans (d. 453). According to his early Vita (BHL 473; first attested from the late eighth or early ninth century), the Gallo-Roman noble A. (in French, Aignan) was born at Vienne but spent most of his life at Orléans, where in 382 he was ordained priest by St. Evurtius and where by general acclamation he succeeded as bishop in 388. He is best known for organizing the defense of his city against the Huns in 451 (Sidonius Apollinaris, _Epp._ 8. 15; Gregory of Tours, _Historia Francorum_ 2. 7). Today is his _dies natalis_.
By the sixth century there was a monastery at A.'s tomb at Orléans. Robert II le Pieux rebuilt its church in the early eleventh century. A plan of this rebuilt church is here:
http://tinyurl.com/2wfjwy
Though most of the eleventh-century church was pulled down in 1359 in anticipation of the English siege, its crypt survives. A French-language account of this monument is here:
http://tinyurl.com/3cyuvo
Two views:
http://tinyurl.com/2ftu4l
http://www.coeur-de-france.com/orleans-souterrain14.jpg
The martyrium in the crypt:
http://cdvorleans.free.fr/Aignan_martyrium.htm
The church was rebuilt from 1439 to 1509 (date of its new consecration). An illustrated account is here:
http://morgann.moussier.free.fr/orleans/BatRelig/StAignan.html
And another (multi-page) is here:
http://cdvorleans.free.fr/Aignan.htm
Some exterior views:
http://orleans.canalblog.com/images/Eglise_St_Aignan_2.JPG
http://tinyurl.com/39y8oo
http://tinyurl.com/2rso3h
http://morgann.moussier.free.fr/orleans/visite/staignan/staignan-8.jpg
http://www.frankreich-sued.de/Orleans/bilder-2/saint-paterne-027.jpg
http://www.frankreich-sued.de/Orleans/bilder-2/saint-paterne-025.jpg
http://www.francebalade.com/orleans/orlstaignan1.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/34jf8k
This display reliquary in the church is said to preserve a bone from one of A.'s arms:
http://cdvorleans.free.fr/Aignan_invasion_fichiers/003.gif
Here's an illustrated, French-language page on the early twelfth-century chapelle Saint-Aignan in Paris, founded by Stephen of Garland, Louis VI's chancellor and dean of Saint-Aignan at Orléans:
http://www.pierre-abelard.com/itin-Saint%20Aignan.htm
Until earlier this year the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paris had a page on this site with numerous views. That's unavailable now, but this link to a version in the Internet Archive should bring up at least a couple of its thumbnails:
http://tinyurl.com/2o4qjq
The eleventh- / twelfth-century église Saint-Aignan at Brinay (Cher) is famous for its later twelfth-century frescoes:
Four pages of views (mostly details of the frescoes):
http://www.art-roman.net/brinay/brinay.htm
Other views:
http://www.handinaute.org/roman.img/Brinay01.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/3yg3lp
http://www.handinaute.org/roman.img/Brinay02.jpg
http://www.handinaute.org/roman.img/Brinay03.jpg
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/vincent.paley/images/brinayG.jpg
An illustrated, French-language page on the originally twelfth-century église Saint Aignan et Sainte Apolline at Chalou-Moulineux (Eassonne):
http://catholique-evry.cef.fr/Chalou-Moulineux-Saint-Aignan-et
Views of this church's belltower:
http://tinyurl.com/2nzv3o
Interior views:
http://tinyurl.com/2yaxj5
Views of the eleventh-/twelfth-century église collégiale Saint Aignan at Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher (Loiret), built over an earlier crypt:
http://tinyurl.com/2dbfyr
http://tinyurl.com/yolmdk
http://ruessel.in-chemnitz.de/2006fr/img/fr41-l.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/ywnxjq
http://tinyurl.com/yrqd4u
http://tinyurl.com/ysmjxv
Frescoing:
http://tinyurl.com/yp8gsn
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~truffe/image/st-aignan.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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