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Herewith a link to last year's "Saints of the day" for 25. December (including the Nativity of Jesus Christ; Anastasia of Sirmium; Bl. Peter the Venerable; Bl. Jacopone of Todi):
http://tinyurl.com/86mjok5
Further to Anastasia of Sirmium:
Apropos the abbey of Santa Maria in Sylvis at Sesto al Règhena (PO) in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, there is also a page from Italia nell'Arte Medievale:
http://tinyurl.com/7x4b5xd
In last year's post, in the links to views of Verona's basilica di San Pietro Martire in Sant'Anastasia I ran two URLs together as:
http://tinyurl.com/385dtyshttp://www.shakespeareinitaly.it/anastasiaverona.JPG
Separated, these are:
http://tinyurl.com/385dtys
http://www.shakespeareinitaly.it/anastasiaverona.JPG
The page from Italia nell'Arte Medievale on this church is back on line:
http://tinyurl.com/ya4odtp
For those who wish to practice their Latin, herewith an unsourced text of Anastasia's legend as transmitted in the _Legenda aurea_ of Bl. Jacopo da Varazze:
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/voragine/anast.shtml
Relics believed to be those of Anastasia (most notably, part of a skull) are kept in the seemingly originally earlier sixteenth-century Patriarchal Monastery of Saint Anastasia the Healer at Vassilika (Thessaloniki prefecture) in northern Greece:
http://tinyurl.com/73lxjh5
Another view of the skull relic, this time on a visit this past May to Kyiv / Kiev:
http://www.mospat.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG_0464_36.jpg
Further images of Anastasia:
Anastasia of Sirmium (at right, after St. Chrysogonus and St. Rufinus of Rome) as depicted in a degraded earlier eighth-century fresco in the lower church of Rome's basilica di San Crisogono:
http://tinyurl.com/72f68zg
Anastasia of Sirmium (or a figure so identified) as depicted in the twelfth-century frescoes of the Cripta degli Affreschi in the patriarchal basilica in Aquileia:
http://s.anastasia.wedge.ru/Pix/Photo/image_large_184.jpg
Anastasia of Sirmium as portrayed in a twelfth-century relief now in the Museum of Religious Art in Zara:
http://s.anastasia.wedge.ru/Pix/Photo/image_large_115.jpg
Anastasia of Sirmium as depicted in the recently cleaned later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
http://s.anastasia.wedge.ru/Pix/Photo/image_large_177.jpg
Anastasia of Sirmium (at right, after St. Paraskeva Pyatnitsa [a.k.a. Petka]) as depicted on a late fourteenth-century Novgorod School icon now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=798
Anastasia of Sirmium as depicted in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century icon from Thessaloniki now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg:
http://www.arthermitage.org/Painting/Icon-St-Anastasia.jpg
Anastasia of Sirmium (at far right, after Sts. Florus, Nicholas of Myra, and Blasius / Blaise of Sebaste) as depicted on a wing of a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century Novgorod School wooden triptych now in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=513
Anastasia of Sirmium (at far right, after the prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas of Myra) as depicted on an early fifteenth-century Novgorod School icon now in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=565
Best,
John Dillon
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