medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at 2:53 pm, I wrote:
> Today (3. March) is the feast day of:
>
> 1) Cleonicus and Eutropius (d. ca. 306, supposedly). According to
> their legendary Passio (two versions: BHG 656a and 656b) the brothers
> C. and E. were companions in arms of St. Basiliscus (said in these
> texts to have been a nephew of St. Theodore the Recruit), were
> martyred at Amasea (today's Amasya in Turkey) under Maximian,...
> E. and C. (in that order in the upper register; B. beneath) as
> depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century (betw. 1335 and 1350)
> frescoes in the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension at the
> Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the
> matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo
> and Metohija:
> http://tinyurl.com/yfpsf
As some may have been irked to discover, that URL is faulty. The correct one for this depiction of these saints' martyrdom is:
http://tinyurl.com/yfpsfsd
Best again,
JD
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