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Today (7. December) is the feast day of:
1) Urban of Teano (d. later 4th cent., supposedly). Today's less well known saint of the Regno is one of the least semi-legendary early bishops of today's Teano (CE) in northern Campania, following St. Paris (5. August) and St. Amasius (23. January). According to Paris' Vita (BHL 6466), U. was his deacon and became the third bishop. According to one of Amasius' rather untrustworthy Vitae (BHL 355), U. would have been Paris' immediate successor but declined then out of humility. He is said to have been laid to rest in the lower part of the city.
Along with Paris, Amasius, and other local saints, U. was figured on the fourteenth-century funerary monument from which panels showing them were in the seventeenth century used to replace the fire-damaged parapet of the cosmatesque ambo in Teano's cattedrale di San Clemente:
http://www.prolocoteano.it/Monumenti/Ambone.htm
2) Ambrose of Milan (d. 397). Not to be confused with the Blessed Ambrose of Milan (Franciscan; d. 1525), this A. is a Saint and a Doctor of the Church. A member of the imperial aristocracy, he was governor of Milan when he was elected bishop of that city in 374. A. became an extraordinarily influential preacher, theologian, and ecclesiastical administrator. Along with St. Augustine of Hippo (whom he baptized) and St. Jerome he is one of the great western Christian churchmen of the fourth century. His _dies natalis_ occurred on 4. April (his feast day in Ado and in Usuard) but today, the anniversary of his consecration as bishop, has been his feast day in some places since at least the ninth century, though what it represented was not always perfectly understood (the Marble Calendar of Naples describes it as the day of his laying to rest). This was A.'s principal feast in the late medieval breviary of the Roman curia and has remained so in the RM.
Herewith a few views, etc. of the basilica named for him in Milan (originally late fourth or very early fifth century; rebuilt, late eleventh and early twelfth centuries).
The basilica's home page:
http://santambrogio-basilica.it/basilica.htm
Exterior views:
http://tinyurl.com/2u4n5l
http://p.vtourist.com/1036652-Travel_Picture-Milan.jpg
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Italy/photo72649.htm
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/fd173/
http://www.thais.it/architettura/romanica/schede/scm_00059_uk.htm
Exterior details:
http://static.flickr.com/38/124723971_4b637d20dd.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/49/124723969_90e61bc9eb.jpg?v=0
http://tinyurl.com/y2h4yv
http://static.flickr.com/52/126885840_bf41565cc9.jpg
Interior views:
http://www.storiadellarte.com/periodi/romanico/archromanica/milano.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3amnqy
http://tinyurl.com/y8ygyt
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/fd170/
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/fd171/
http://tinyurl.com/y7urnx
Here's A. in the crypt, dressed in white and lying between the martyrs Gervase and Protase (whose bodies he discovered) :
http://tinyurl.com/r5otc
http://static.flickr.com/52/124723968_aff97d80b8.jpg
Some images of A.:
His restored fifth-century mosaic portrait in the basilica di Sant'Ambrogio's sacello di San Vittore:
http://www.livius.org/a/1/romanempire/ambrosius.JPG
A. on the west front of Sant'Ambrogio:
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/e34c6692.html
A. in a twelfth-century relief on Milan's Porta Romana:
http://tinyurl.com/y8upj5
A. flanked by Sts. Gervase and Protase (fourteenth-century) on Milan's Pusterla di Sant'Ambrogia (another gate):
http://www.chieracostui.com/costui/lettini/docs/edscheda.asp?ID=122
Augustine listening to A. (on Augustine's later fourteenth-century tomb in Pavia's basilica di San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro):
http://www.santagostinopavia.it/cieldoro/arca/17.jpg
Detail (A.):
http://www.santagostinopavia.it/cieldoro/arca/32.jpg
A. in the lower right-hand corner of Pietro di Puccio's mosaics (1388; restored) on the facade of the cathedral of Orvieto (TR) in Umbria:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/orvieto/cathedral/0081.jpg
Jerome and A. with donors (mid-fifteenth-century), St Thomas, Foxley (Norfolk):
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/foxley/images/dscf9613.jpg
A. and Augustine by Giovanni Masone (Genoa, 1491):
http://tinyurl.com/y5gftm
Various images:
http://www.aug.edu/augusta/iconography/ambrose.html
Best,
John Dillon
(Ambrose of Milan lightly revised from last year's post)
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