medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 11/22/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Today, November 22, is the feast of:
> Philemon and Apphia/Appia [and Onesimus] (d. 1st century) Philemon, a leader of the church at Colossae in Phrygia, is the addressee of St. Paul's Epistle to Philemon. In that letter, Apphia also receives warm greetings; she is generally understood to have been Philemon's wife. Legendarily, both were martyred either at Colossae or, identifying Philemon with the disciple of that name said by Dorotheus of Tyre to have been bishop of Gaza, in the latter city. According to some legends, they were captured by a pagan governor, scourged, then buried in a pit up to the waist, when they were stoned to death. In Orthodox churches the feast also commemorates as a saint Philemon's escaped slave Onesimus whom St. Paul wishes Philemon to take back not as a slave but rather as a brother.
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> Orthodox churches celebrate Onesimus separately as well, on February 15, in keeping with their tradition that he became one of the Seventy Disciples, evangelized with Paul in Italy, and was martyred at what's now Pozzuoli by being clubbed to death.
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Which of course makes Onesimus a less well known saint of the Regno.
Onemisus' martydom as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by the court painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7k5uwoq
Best,
John Dillon
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