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Today (14. October) is also the feast day of:
Callistus of Huesca (d. 10th or 11th cent., supposedly). The very poorly documented C. (in French, Calix and Calixte; also C. of the Louron) is the titular of an originally eleventh-century church in the Vallée du Louron in the French Pyrenees. According to local legend of undetermined antiquity, he was an Aragonese military officer from Huesca who with his brother or cousin Mercurialis (26. August; another saint of the same Pyrenaean valley complex) in an attempt to protect inhabitants of the Louron from Moorish raiders. C. and M. fell in combat with Moors at different times and at different places; chapels arose over their graves. Thus far the legend. C. has yet to grace the pages of the RM. Today is his feast day in the diocese of Tarbes-Lourdes.
Some exterior views of the originally eleventh-century église Saint-Calixte du Louron in Cazaux-Fréchet-Anéran-Camors (Hautes-Pyrénées):
http://tinyurl.com/2ewgdza
http://tinyurl.com/2ffs6rc
http://tinyurl.com/38unhl3
http://tinyurl.com/2dkvzg5
http://tinyurl.com/27c5zhc
An illustrated, French-language page on the church:
http://tinyurl.com/24rx3t8
C. and M. as depicted in a fifteenth-century fresco in this church:
http://tinyurl.com/2a5jq47
The church's sixteenth-century statue of C. (freshly painted after it had been stripped of its previous polychromy by thieves):
http://tinyurl.com/2cpzf2v
Best,
John Dillon
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