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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 4. February (including Sts. Eutychius of Rome; Rabanus Maurus; Himerius of Bosto; Gilbert of Sempringham; Jeanne of Valois):
http://tinyurl.com/7e7lwgb
Further to Rabanus Maurus:
In that previous post's notice of this saint, the first link to views of Rabanus' _De laudibus Sanctae Crucis_ as presented in Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 124 no longer functions. Use this instead (the images are still expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/7l2fbtn
In the same notice the link directly to an image of the presentation portrait of Rabanus and Gregory IV no longer functions. That image will be found here, at left in the fourth row from the top:
http://tinyurl.com/7l2fbtn
4. February is also the feast day of:
1) Papias, Diodorus, and Claudianus (d. 250 or 251, supposedly). Papias, Diodorus, and Cladianus are martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia. According to the Acta of St. Nestor, bishop of Magydus they suffered, as did that worthy, during the Decian persecution. Byzantine synaxaries enter these three under today, as does also the RM in its revision of 2001 (previously the RM had commemorated them under 26. February).
The martyrdom of Papias and Diodorus (lower register; above, St. Isidore of Pelusium [on whom see no. 2 below]) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3sycp5h
2) Isidore of Pelusium (d. earlier 5th cent.). We know about this rhetorically and theologically learned Egyptian monk and recluse from his more than 2000 surviving letters and from the recorded impressions of late antique writers who were aware of a larger corpus of his letters and other writings. A contemporary of St. Cyril of Alexandria, he wrote on matters of doctrine, on the conduct of Christian life for ascetics and others, and on aspects of Holy Writ.
Isidore of Pelusium (upper register; below; the martyrdom of Sts. Papias and Diodorus [on whom see no. 1, above]) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3sycp5h
Isidore of Pelusium perhaps (at right; at left, St. Athanasius the Athonite) as depicted in the later seventeenth-century repaintings of originally thirteenth- or fourteenth-century frescoes in the monastery of the Cross at Jerusalem (since the frescoes' original inscriptions will have been in Georgian, not Greek, the present identifications of these figures may not antedate the monastery's transfer to the Greek Orthodox patriarchate in the seventeenth century):
http://www.balandin.net/Photogallery3/Cross2b.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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