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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 6. February (including Sts. Silvanus of Emesa and companions; Vedastus; Amandus of Maastricht; Guarinus of Palestrina; Brynolf Algotsson; Bl. Angelo of Furci):
http://tinyurl.com/6u9opa4
Further to Vedastus:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint the first link to the views of the Chapelle des Marins at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue (Manche) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/8x3wg7a
Further to Amandus:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint the links to illuminations from Valenciennes, Bibliothèque de Valenciennes, mss. 500 and 501 no longer function. Digitizations of those manuscript Vitae of Amandus and of a third as well are accessible from here:
http://bibebook.valenciennes.fr/
Further to Brynolf Algotsson:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint the second link to visuals bearing upon him and upon his cult no longer functions.
Further to Bl. Angelo of Furci:
In that earlier post's notice of Bl. Angelo the link to the map no longer functions. Use this instead (the map in question is the first one on the page):
http://tinyurl.com/6wg34ey
In the same notice the link to the views of what remains of his abbey at Cornaclano (now also known as Cornacchiano) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7bnj6y9
A couple of closer views:
http://tinyurl.com/6u584l2
http://www.comunefresagrandinaria.it/reperto6.jpg
Today (6. February) is also the feast day of:
1) Mél (d. late 5th or early 6th cent.). Mél (also Moel) is the early saint of Ardagh (county Longford). Reputed to have been a Briton who who came to Ireland with St. Patrick and who was made priest at Ardagh, he figures not only in the early Lives of Patrick but also in the Lives of St. Brigid of Kildare (to whom he is said to have given the veil). His feast on this day is recorded from the ninth century in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Óengus.
A view of the originally ninth-century Crozier of St. Mel, destroyed in 2009 in the Christmas Day fire in St. Mel's Cathedral in Longford town:
http://tinyurl.com/87owk7a
2) Gerard of Ostia (d. 1077). Gerard (also Gerhard, Gerald) was a Bavarian from Regensburg, where he taught school before undertaking a pilgrimage to Rome. Having entered religion at Cluny, he had risen to the office of prior major there when Alexander II made him cardinal bishop of Ostia. Under Gregory VII Gerard was papal legate in France (1073, 1075) and in Germany (1074); in 1077 he traveled to Canossa with Gregory. After that he underwent a brief period of imprisonment in Lombardy at the hands of imperial agents and then retired to Velletri in southern Lazio, where he died on this day and was buried in the cathedral.
In Velletri, where he is generally known as Geraldo, Gerard has been one of the local patron saints since at least the fourteenth century. He is celebrated liturgically in Velletri's cathedral on this day (in years when 6. February is also Ash Wednesday the celebration is advanced to 5. February). Gerard has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
Best,
John Dillon
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