medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, September 2, 2010, at 1:04 am, I wrote:
> 2) Antoninus of Apamea (d. 4th cent., supposedly).
> ... By the Middle Ages
> a town in the county of Foix that had once been Fredelas was calling
> itself Appamia or Pamia (from _Apamia_, a medieval Latin spelling of
> Apamea) and claiming to be the place where its own allegedly native
> saint A. had been martyred. Pamia is now Pamiers (Ariège)...
That is, by the _later_ Middle Ages.
And on Thursday, September 2, 2010. at 11:42 am, I wrote:
> Mamas of Caesarea (d. during 270-275, supposedly). The megalomartyr
> M. (also Mammas, Mames, Mammes, Mamete, Mamant, Mamante, etc., etc.)
> is a saint of Caesarea in Cappadocia of whom virtually nothing is
> known. Traditionally thought to have suffered under Aurelian and
> considered a patron of herdsmen and of others who work with animals,
> he is venerated widely in Eastern Christianity and regionally or
> locally in various places in the Latin West.
Add after that: The similarity of M.'s name to words for "mother" has led to his further construction as a patron of maternity in its various aspects.
> TAN: M. as depicted in a fresco of 1468 by George (Tzortzis) the
> Cretan in the katholikon of the Docheiariou monastery on Mt. Athos
> that's slightly too recent for this list but also too nifty to pass up:
> http://tinyurl.com/pesmqg
For "1468" read "1568".
Best again,
JD
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