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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 8. January (including Severinus of Noricum; Maximus of Pavia; Nathalan; Gudula; Wulfsige; and Lorenzo Giustiniani):
http://tinyurl.com/76zpv3u
Further to Severinus of Noricum:
An unsourced text of Eugippius' _Commemoratorium vitae s. Severini_:
http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT0501.HTM
In that earlier post, the link for the page (which was in English) on Roman-period Favianis no longer functions. One can read it here (without the visuals), courtesy of the Internet Archive:
http://tinyurl.com/7pbr3zt
Two differently illustrated German-language pages on Favianis in the context of today's Mautern an der Donau:
http://tinyurl.com/6mk2yjz
http://www.limes-oesterreich.at/php/site.php?ID=242
Severinus (at center) as depicted in a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century relief on the facade of the recently restored, originally medieval chiesa di San Severino abate (reconsecrated in 1224) in San Severo (FG) in northern Apulia:
http://tinyurl.com/6n6n25n
An illustrated, Italian-language page on this church, first documented from 1059:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Severino_abate
Again with reference to that earlier post, in the later fifteenth-century altarpiece of San Severino in Naples <http://www.aiwaz.net/gallery/gi867c127>, Severinus is depicted twice, at bottom center as a mitred abbot and at bottom right (in Benedictine habit; the other figure in that panel is the former owning monastery's co-titular, St. Soss[i]us). Herewith a detail view of Severinus as depicted in the latter panel:
http://tinyurl.com/899lklx
An expandable, black-and-white view of Severinus (at right; again as a mitred abbot) and Soss(i)us flanking the Madonna and Child as depicted by Protasio Crivelli (d. after 1516; documented in Naples, 1497-1506) in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century painting formerly in the chiesa di San Severino abate at Striano (NA) in coastal Campania:
http://tinyurl.com/78ygmbn
Expandable detail view (Severinus):
http://tinyurl.com/73kv79b
In that earlier post, the link to the partial view of Severinus' fifteenth-century statue in the Kirche St. Severin in Passau no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Severin_von_Norikum.jpg
Severinus (fourth from left) is likewise depicted as a pilgrim in an earlier sixteenth-century woodcut (1515; print expanded in 1517 by the addition of two saints at right) by Albrecht Dürer now in the British Museum London:
http://images.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/I/big/HL10734a.jpg
Two illustrated, German-language page on the partly later fifteenth-century Pfarrkirche St. Severin in Passau-Heining:
http://regiowiki.pnp.de/index.php/Kirche_St._Severin_%28Heining%29
http://tinyurl.com/3zvogzx
8. January is also the feast day of:
1) Claudius Apolinarius / Apollinaris (d. later 2d cent.). We know about this early church father primarily from a brief notice in Eusebius' _Historia ecclesiastica_ (4. 27) repeated by St. Jerome in the _De viris illustribus_ (cap. 18). Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, he wrote apologetic works against other religions (traditional Greek religion; Judaism) and against holders of heterodox Christian views (Montanists and others). These survive only as mentions or in very tiny fragments.
2) Lucian, Maximian, and Julian of Beauvais (?). Lucian and his companions Maximian (in some texts, Maxianus; in French: Messien) and Julian are the traditional protomartyrs of Beauvais and the evangelists of the Beauvaisis. Their highly legendary Passiones (BHL 5008ff.) start off by having them suffer under Diocletian. The reworking that we have of St. Eligius' Vita of St. Audoenus (BHL 2474) calls Lucian 'Lucan', makes him a companion of St. Quintinus of Vermand, and has the seventh-century St. Audoenus discover and honor in some fashion his relics at Beauvais. In the ninth century, under the influence of the developing legend of St. Dionysius of Paris, bishop of Odo of Beauvais in his Passio of Lucian and his companions (BHL 5009) presents Lucian as a disciple of St. Peter sent out from Rome by pope St. Clement I, has all three executed by decapitation on this day on a hill outside of Beauvais in a renewed persecution under Domitian, makes Lucian a cephalophore, and has all three honorably buried by the local Christian community. Still according to bishop Odo, later they were given a martyrial church and numerous healing miracles have continued to occur at their tomb.
From the early Middle Ages until the late eighteenth century an important monastery of St. Lucian existed at the martyrs' reputed gravesite in the vicinity of Beauvais. Herewith an illustrated, French-language page on that house:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_Saint-Lucien_de_Beauvais
Lucian preaching and the martyrdoms of Maximian, Julian, and Lucian as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language translation by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 50, fol. 361v):
http://tinyurl.com/86d5dzp
Best,
John Dillon
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