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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 15. February (including Sts. Faustinus and Jovita; Severus of Interocrium [or of Antrodoco]; Quinidius; Decorosus of Capua; Sigfrid, bp. in Sweden):
http://tinyurl.com/73l9pm5
Further to Faustinus and Jovita:
In the lemma to that earlier post's notice of these saints, for '(d. early 1st cent., supposedly)' please read '(d. early 2d cent., supposedly').
In the same notice, replace the (still functioning) link to a view of the relief of Faustinus from Brescia's Porta Pile with these to photographs by Genevra Kornbluth of that object:
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BresciaFaustinus1.jpg
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BresciaFaustinus2.jpg
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/BresciaFaustinus3.jpg
In the next item in the same notice, the images of Faustinus and Jovita are on the _reverse_ of that denaro from Brescia.
In the same notice, the first two links to views of the chiesa di San Faustino at Rubiera (RE) no longer function. Use these instead:
http://www.sanfaustino.org/Fotografie/San%20Faustino/DSC06372.JPG
http://www.sanfaustino.org/Fotografie/San%20Faustino/DSC06370.JPG
and add this link to the page of views from which those came:
http://tinyurl.com/8xtophl
Still with reference to this church, the link to the larger views of exterior sculptures in the apse area no longer functions.
In the same notice, the first link to a view of Faustinus' effigy reliquary in the chiesa della SS. Annunziata at Pietradifusi (AV) no longer takes one there. Use this instead (it's still the first photograph in the set):
http://www.ssannunziatapietradefusi.it/fotogallery0809.htm
Still with reference to this church, the first link to an account of its early modern Maecenas, cardinal Niccolò Coscia, no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Coscia
Further to Sigfrid, bp. in Sweden:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to his portrait (showing him holding a basket[?] containing the heads of his three nephews) in Stockholm's Spånga kyrka no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Sigfried_von_Vaexsjoe.gif
While we're here, here's a page with views of this church's wall paintings and vault paintings:
http://www.hagen.web.surftown.se/Spanga%20kyrka.htm
Other views (these are expandable) are here:
http://tinyurl.com/777y4t5
Iconographic identifications may be here:
http://tinyurl.com/6mbg8zb
15. February is also the feast day of:
Georgia (d. later 5th cent.?). We know about this late antique recluse (her name in French is Géorgie) chiefly from writings of St. Gregory of Tours. At _In gloria confessorum_, 33 she is presented by report as having been a young woman of Clermont who withdrew to the nearby countryside, who lived there in assiduous prayer and fasting until her death, and whose return to Clermont for burial was the occasion of the following miracle. As Georgia's body was being carried back to the city on a litter a great flock of doves appeared and accompanied it to the church to which she was being brought. They landed on the roof of the church and remained there until after her burial, at which time they flew up to heaven. Thus far Gregory, whose concluding sentence expresses the belief that Georgia too had gone to heaven.
In _Historia Francorum_, 1. 33 and 4. 12 Georgia's burial church is identified as that of Clermont's St. Cassius. According to the later sixteenth- and earlier seventeenth-century antiquary Jean Savarus, in 1532 the bishop of Clermont opened Georgia's tomb in that church and removed the saint's head, which he gave as a relic to the monastery of St. Illidius. In the late eighteenth century dom Ruinart visited the church and reported Georgia's tomb there to be an ancient sarcophagus (the latter has since disappeared along with whatever relics it may then have held).
Best,
John Dillon
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