medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
It just occurred to me that I don't know why Benedict's traditional death
year is 543 (on Holy Saturday). How is that calculated? Does any list member
happen to know?
thanks
jbw
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> The context is a series of depictions of saints of March in the order
celebrated
> by the Serbian Orthodox Church in the early fourteenth century. At
Gračanica
> many of saints depicted have had their faces disfigured. Such
disfigurement is
> not uncommon in areas that for a long while were under Islamic rule. It
is not
> clear why some figures escaped maltreatment in this fashion (many of the
> disfured images are in places that are harder to reach) -- possibly in
their cases
> there was disfigurement as well but of a lighter nature and now concealed
by
> restoration work.
>
> The saint in question is the apostle Aristobulus (one of the 70; in the
Roman
> church these are called disciples, not apostles). The one next to him,
likewise
> disfigured, is bishop Alexander of Rome (i.e. pope St. Alexander I):
> http://tinyurl.com/6joakrv
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Wickstrom <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011 6:20 pm
> Subject: [M-R] FW: [M-R] Feasts and Saints of the Day: July 11
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Wickstrom
> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 1:19 PM
> > To: 'medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
> > culture'
> > Subject: RE: [M-R] Feasts and Saints of the Day: July 11
> >
> > John , this is a most interesting fresco. Do you have any idea of the
> > context? It appears that the figure to the right of Benedict might
> > have had
> > his face blotted out (?).
> > jbw
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
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> Dillon
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> > Subject: Re: [M-R] Feasts and Saints of the Day: July 11
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> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> >
> > Benedict (upper register, above decapitation scene) as depicted in an
> > earlier fourteenth-century March calendar fresco (betw. ca. 1312 and
> > 1321)
> > in one of the little domes of the monastery church of the Theotokos at
> > Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's
> > province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
> > http://tinyurl.com/yzfxkmn
> >
> > Best,
> > John Dillon
> >
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