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I remember the small church in Lisbon built atop the birthplace of the saint they refer to there as Anthony of LISBON (!!) and I believe it includes one of the requiem chapels made of human bones that dot Iberia.
Alas, I have no photos to add!
Stephen
--- On Fri, 6/13/08, John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 13. June
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 1:55 AM
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
> religion and culture
>
> Today (13. June) is the feast day of:
>
> 1) Felicula (?). Felicula is a poorly attested Roman
> martyr of the Via Ardeatina associated legendarily with St.
> Petronilla, a rather better attested martyr laid to rest in
> the same general area. Her Passio (BHL 2856) is part of
> the larger narration of the Passio of Sts. Nereus and
> Achilleus. It makes her Petronilla's foster-sister,
> arrested as a Christian, and has her spurn a high-ranking
> official (already rejected by P.) in order to preserve her
> virginity. In the Passio F., who of course also refuses to
> make pagan sacrifice, is then starved, undergoes torture, is
> executed by suffocation, and is buried at the seventh
> milestone from the city on the aforementioned Roman road.
>
>
> 2) Triphyllius (d. 4th cent.). According to his Bios, T.
> was a native of New Rome who while still young was taken by
> his mother to Jerusalem and who was brought up there. The
> earlier fifth-century church historian Sozomen, who had
> studied at the famous law school of Beirut, tells us that
> T. too studied law at Beirut. His education completed, T.
> moved on to Cyprus, where he became a disciple of St.
> Spyridon the Wonderworker and in time rose to be bishop of
> Ledrai (the ancient forerunner of medieval and modern
> Lefcosia/Nicosia). An excellent speaker, he was of the
> orthodox party at the Council of Sardica/Serdica. Jerome
> lists several writings by him; none has survived. A
> metrical Bios kai thaumata of St. Spyridon, incorrectly
> ascribed to T., was circulating by the year 600; it too has
> not survived.
>
>
> 3) Cetheus, also known as Peregrinus (d. ca. 600,
> supposedly). According to his Passio (BHL 1730 in
> different versions; the text in the _Acta Sanctorum_ is a
> composite), this less well known saint of the Regno was
> bishop of Amiternum in what is now Abruzzo at the time of
> the Lombard takeover. He defended a Lombard accused of
> having attempted to betray the town to the Romans, was
> judged complicitous by another Lombard who had seized
> power, and was executed by being drowned in the river
> Pescara. C.'s body, the stone with which he had been
> drowned still tied to his neck, washed up at what in the
> texts would appear to be Zadar, across the Adriatic in
> Croatia, but which is more likely to have been Aternum, the
> Roman-period predecessor of today's city of Pescara (PE)
> at the mouth of the homonymous river.
>
> There the local bishop inferred from C.'s angelic
> countenance that he was a martyr, instituted a cult in his
> honor, and -- since C.'s real name was unknown --,
> called him Peregrinus ('Foreigner'). C. (in
> Italian, Cetteo) is Pescara's patron saint. That
> city's twentienth-century cathedral (consecrated in
> 1933) is dedicated to him and in 1977 relics of C. were
> translated here from Chieti (CH), the capital of the
> province to which the southern part of Pescara once
> belonged.
>
> In or prior to 1263 the Passio's central story was
> attached to the cult of a St. Peregrinus said to have come
> from Syria. This P. was the dedicatee of an oratory at his
> reputed resting place on the grounds of the Benedictine
> abbey of Bominaco (formerly Momenaco) not far from
> L'Aquila (AQ) in the interior of Abruzzo and, perhaps
> not coincidentally for the present contents of the Passio,
> not far from where Roman-period Amiternum had been. In
> that year its abbot Theodinus rebuilt the oratory and
> presumably commissioned the first of the series of later
> thirteenth-century frescoes for which it is now famous;
> these include scenes from C.'s/P.'s Passio. The
> abbey was largely destroyed in the early fifteenth century.
> Its principal remains are the oratory of San Pellegrino and
> the church of Santa Maria Assunta. A brief sketch in
> English is here (the last two views are of the oratory):
> http://abruzzo2000.com/abruzzo/laquila/bominaco.htm
> The Abruzzo-Romanico site had a good page, with expandable
> views, on these two buildings. Its archiving at the
> Internet Archive was not totally successful but it's
> usually easy to guess which diacritics or characters with
> diacritics are now represented by the light-colored
> question marks in black diamonds:
> http://tinyurl.com/4db3ab
> An exterior view of the oratory of P.:
> http://tinyurl.com/2mkugo
> Four pages of expandable views of details from the oratory,
> mostly of the recent restored frescoes, are here:
> http://tinyurl.com/hsvms
> The Italia nell'Arte Medievale page on Bominaco has a
> few exterior views of the oratory:
> http://tinyurl.com/427z4h
>
>
> 4) Psalmodius (d. early 7th cent., perhaps). P. (also
> Psalmet) is recorded as a saint of the diocese of Limoges
> since at least the later twelfth century. In the sixteenth
> century it was believed that he was an Irish missionary and
> disciple of St. Brendan, that his body had been found in
> the woods near today's Eymoutiers (Haute-Vienne) in the
> Limousin, and that it had then been deposited in that
> town's collégiale Saint-Etienne. The latter preserves
> P.'s putative relics. Some views of this largely
> fifteenth-century church and of its stained glass windows
> (the latter "restored" in 1872):
> Old-postcard view:
> http://www.mairie-eymoutiers.fr/images/hhco/i002.jpg
> Single views:
> http://tinyurl.com/5le8hj
> http://lei.crt-limousin.fr/images/178/178001578_4.jpg
> http://www.leschenauds.com/eymoutiers1.jpg
> http://www.mairie-eymoutiers.fr/images/accueil/gene16.jpg
> Several expandable views are here:
> http://www.mairie-eymoutiers.fr/eymoutiers/page2.html
> Belltower:
> http://tinyurl.com/6hccqb
> http://tinyurl.com/5lyy7h
> The windows (description):
> http://tinyurl.com/3hrs8y
> The windows (views):
> http://www.mairie-eymoutiers.fr/clvitraux.htm#
> http://tinyurl.com/43c7j7
> Interior:
> http://tinyurl.com/6zey76
> Boss:
> http://www.mairie-eymoutiers.fr/images/clevoute.jpg
>
>
> 5) Rambert (d. ca. 680). According to his
> mid-ninth-century Passio (BHL 7058), R. (in Latin,
> Ragnebertus), a devout layman, was a highly placed noble at
> the court of Neustria. The mayor of the palace Ebroin, the
> villain of this piece, falsely accused R. of attempting to
> murder him. This got R. exiled to the Jura rather than
> executed outright, as Ebroin had been hoping. The pious R.
> retreated to the wilderness, constructed a tiny oratory, and
> lived there as a hermit until he was murdered by agents of
> Ebroin. R. was buried in a nearby monastery, miracles were
> reported at his tomb, and a martyr cult arose.
>
> R.'s cult is said to be attested at today's
> Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey (Ain) since the seventh century.
> His relics are kept there in an eighteenth-century châsse
> (with some twelfth-century textiles) in the parish church.
> See the description here:
> ttp://tinyurl.com/6yxj5l
> In the eleventh century R.'s cult had spread to the
> abbey on the Ile-Barbe at Lyon; the abbey is gone but the
> place is still called Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe, just
> as its priory at today's Saint-Just Saint-Rambert
> (Loire) has left its name there. Expandable views of the
> latter's eleventh-/twelfth-century église
> Saint-Rambert (also called the église Saint-André) are
> here:
> http://tinyurl.com/5kz9r5
> http://tinyurl.com/6evcyk
>
>
> 6) Anthony of Padua (d. 1231). A. belonged to a noble
> family of Lisbon. An Augustinian canon at that city's
> monastery of St. Vincent, he studied in Lisbon and in
> Coimbra and was ordained priest before transferring in
> about 1220 to the Franciscans. Upon entering his new order
> A. took the the saint's name by which he is known
> (previously he had been called Fernando or something
> similar). An exceptionally effective preacher, A. was
> first sent as a missionary to Morocco but soon returned to
> Europe on account of poor health. He preached against
> heresy in Milan and in southern France and in 1227 was
> appointed provincial for much of northern Italy, with his
> seat in Padua. Soon was lector for the Franciscans at
> Bologna as well.
>
> Worn out by his efforts, A. resigned his offices in 1230.
> In 1231, shortly before his death at the age of thirty-six,
> he was preaching to great crowds at Padua. A.'s cult
> was immediate. He was canonized in 1232 and proclaimed a
> Doctor of the Church in 1946.
>
> The polyglot home page of Padua's Basilica del Santo
> (i.e. of A.) is here (the virtual tour is informative but
> the illustrations are a bit on the small side):
> http://www.basilicadelsanto.org/
> Exterior views:
> http://tinyurl.com/ysanaa
> http://tinyurl.com/yobdbm
> http://tinyurl.com/3x78o8
> High altar:
> http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/padova/2altar00.jpg
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
> (Felicula, Cetheus/Peregrinus, and Anthony of Padua lightly
> revised from last year's post)
>
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