medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 11/09/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Orestes of Tyana (?) is a saint of the former Tyana in Cappadocia, where a monastery dedicated to him is already attested from the later fourth century in the correspondence of St. Basil the Great. He has a legendary Greek-language Passio that makes him a physician of Tyana caught up in the Great Persecution. His resistance to a command to sacrifice to idols in a temple was miraculously confirmed by an earthquake that a) caused the idols to fall and be smashed and b) resulted in the collapse of the temple itself once Orestes had been brought outside. Still a prisoner, Orestes was then tortured severely and then tied to a maddened horse that dragged him to his death across rocky terrain.
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> A very late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century (c1300) fresco of Orestes, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church at Karyes on Mount Athos: http://tinyurl.com/ydnn83d
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My bad from a couple of years ago! That fresco (the link to which I had removed from the 2010 notice of this Orestes) depicts rather the Orestes of Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugenius, Mardarius, and Orestes ('the Five Companions / Martyrs'), celebrated on 13. December. See no. 2 at < http://tinyurl.com/75sylp9 >.
> Tryphon/Trypho, Respicius and Nympha and companions (d. c250) According to legend, Tryphon was born in Phrygia, and worked there as a keeper of geese. He was martyred with his companions Nympha and Respicius. Their cult spread very early, especially in the East but also in south Italy and Sicily. In the eastern church since the twelfth century there has been a special Tryphon blessing to ward off evil spirits and plagues of insects. He is a patron saint of gardeners. Their relics were preserved in Rome's hospital of the Holy Ghost in Sassia.
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See also under 1. February at < http://tinyurl.com/4bn7k9u >. A set of visuals for Tryphon from earlier this year will be found at < http://tinyurl.com/7nblowa >.
> Leo the Great (d. 461)...
> Here's a view of a leaf from a fragmentary seventh- or eighth-century North Italian manuscript of Leo's sermons (Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M II 274_: http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/Fragmente/MII274.jpg
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> Here's Leo as depicted in the later tenth- or early eleventh-century Menologion of Basil II: http://tinyurl.com/2hty26
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> And here is he is meeting Attila in an illumination from the fourteenth-century Hungarian Képes Krónika (“Illustrated Chronicle”): http://tinyurl.com/2rkma8
A rather more generous set of visuals for Leo I will be found in last year's notice of him, no. 4 here < http://tinyurl.com/c7ra8kc >.
Best,
John Dillon
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