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Today (21. November) is the feast day of:
1) Maurus of Parentium (Mavro of Poreč; d. probably late 3d or very early
4th cent.). Though we know virtually nothing about him, M. is Istria's
first historically attested bishop. He is the local saint of Poreč in Croatia,
where he is depicted as a martyr in the apse mosaic of its famous
mid-sixth-century Basilica Euphrasiana:
http://www.omniplan.hu/2000-Croatia/11-Opatija-Porec-Pula/388-Porec.jpg
http://www.porec-appartements.de/images/basilika2.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/c7nde
Further images here:
http://tinyurl.com/8k4s9
In the seventh century pope John IV, who was of Dalmatian origin,
removed M.'s relics to Rome along with those of other Istrian and
Dalmatian saints. M. is said to be among the saints depicted in the
Lateran Baptistery's Chapel of St. Venantius, though he is not one of the
figures of its apse mosaic
http://www.santamelania.it/arte_fede/giovbatt/thumbs/img02.jpg
as these are interpreted here:
http://www.santamelania.it/arte_fede/giovbatt/giovbatt.htm
2) Gelasius I, pope (d. 496). A native Roman of recent North African ancestry, G. had been a close associate of pope St. Felix III (II), for whom he wrote official documents, before succeeding to the papacy in 492. G. continued his predecessor's policy of opposing the Christology of the patriarchs of Constantinople from Acacius onward, considered by western Chalcedonians to be monophysite. In the course of this activity G. wrote his _De duabus naturis in Christo_ and other treatises as well the letter to the emperor Anastasius I for which is now best known and in which he affirmed the primacy of the ecclesiastical over the secular power. At Rome he suppressed the Lupercalia.
Neither the so-called Gelasian Decree attempting to establish a canon of Holy Writ nor the Gelasian Sacramentary are now considered artefacts of G.'s papacy, though their nomenclature bears witness to the once standard nature of these attributions. Here's G. at left, with pope St. Gregory I at right, in the later ninth-century Sacramentary of Charles the Bald:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Gelasius_I-Karl-Gregor_I.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
(Maurus of Parentium very lightly revised from last year's post)
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