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Today, being the last Sunday in August (as at this writing it still is in the United States), is the feast day of:
Platanus (d. late 1st or early 2d cent., supposedly). P. has been venerated in Sardinia since at least the earlier twelfth century, when we begin to have records of him. His legendary construction, attested in late medieval vernacular texts, makes him a brother of St. Antiochus of the Sulcis (13. December; one of the great saints of medieval and modern Sardinia), just as St. Plato of Ancyra (Ankara; 22. July) is said in Greek synaxary texts to have been the brother of St. Antiochus the Physician (A. of Sebaste; 16. July). A. of the Sulcis' veneration as a physician (his Passio draws heavily on one of A. of Sebaste) will have facilitated this transfer of identity from Plato to the similarly named Platanus.
P.'s major monument is his originally earlier twelfth-century church at Villaspeciosa (CA) in southern Sardinia, possibly identical with a church of the same dedication listed in 1141 as a possession of the Victorines of Marseille. Some views:
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo1012300.htm
http://tinyurl.com/kun8dr
http://tinyurl.com/nwnsey
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6916005.jpg
A page of views, exterior and interior:
http://www.stilepisano.it/immagini5/index7.htm
A page of exterior views:
http://tinyurl.com/lvzu7e
An illustrated Italian-language account (the views in the Galleria are expandable and are followed by a text link to a plan and two sections of the church):
http://tinyurl.com/m7su4x
Best,
John Dillon
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