medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I just wrote:
> 1) Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (d. 250, supposedly). M.
> (also Mercury) had a major late antique cult at the Caesarea that is
> today's Kayseri in Turkey. His legendary Greek Passio (BHG 1274)
> makes him a general in the Roman army martyred under Decius. By the
> early sixth century he was also believed to have been sent from Heaven
> to slay Julian the Apostate...
> ... this fragmentarily preserved,
> later fourteenth-century fresco in the cattedrale di San Pardo in
> Larino (CB) in Molise that depicts M. seemingly having just slain Julian:
> http://tinyurl.com/ybu54kl
Er, that's a view of the fifteenth-century relief at Seminara (RC) in Calabria that also depicts M.'s legendary slaying of the apostate emperor. The correct URL for the fresco at Larino is:
http://tinyurl.com/ygfxcmq
Apologies for the slip.
--JD
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