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Herewith a link to last year's "Saints of the Day" for 28. December (the feast of the Holy Innocents):
http://tinyurl.com/6r8nb4p
Further to the Holy Innocents:
Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents and the Massacre itself as depicted in the twelfth-century frescoes of the église Saint-Aignan at Brinay (Cher):
http://www.sagaphoto.com/bassedefWM/18PF0320.jpg
http://www.art-roman.net/brinay/brinay30x.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/6r8jolv
http://tinyurl.com/7zlwdnm
More details here:
http://www.art-roman.net/brinay/brinay3.htm#
The earlier thirteenth-century apse mosaic (ca. 1220) of Rome's basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura has a medievally unusual depiction of the Innocents, showing them as nimbed martyrs rather than as children being slaughtered:
http://tinyurl.com/2badk6h
In addition to being unusual that depiction is also seldom seen. Since basilica's rebuilding in the nineteenth century this section of the mosaic has been hidden from ordinary view by a neoclassical entablature:
http://tinyurl.com/2aa7dbq
http://tinyurl.com/28dmykd
The earlier thirteenth-century mosaic (betw. 1315 and 1321) in the exonarthex of the Chora church at Istanbul to which a link was provided last year:
http://www.fixcas.com/cgi-bin/herod.py?KariyeCamii
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/6vhlde2
shows Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents plus a bit of the Massacre itself. The latter is further depicted in a partly preserved adjacent mosaic now in two major sections:
http://tinyurl.com/85jzr9z
and
http://tinyurl.com/6vahco4
Best,
John Dillon
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