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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 5. February (including Sts. Agatha; Avitus of Vienne; Adelaide of Vilich):
http://tinyurl.com/7wxhyg3
Herewith a link to another earlier 'Saints of the day' post for 5. February (including Domitius [and Maria] of Carinthia):
http://tinyurl.com/7sdc9ep
Further to Agatha:
In that first earlier post's notice of this saint, add to the visuals, etc. for Ravenna's basilica di Sant'Agata this Italian-language Wikipedia article on that church:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Sant%27Agata_Maggiore
In the same notice add to the depictions of St. Agatha:
a) this view of her as portrayed in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo near Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/7k7h2jx
b) these views of her (lower left) as portrayed in the late twelfth-century apse mosaic in the basilica cattedrale Santa Maria la Nuova at Monreale:
http://tinyurl.com/77zok9n
http://tinyurl.com/3qdfsjt
c) this view of her as depicted in a late thirteenth-century glass window (ca. 1295) in the Walburgiskirche in St. Michael in Obersteiermark (Land Steiermark):
http://www.burgenseite.com/glas/walb_agatha_glas_1.jpg
In the same notice add this second exterior view of the originally medieval rear portions of Catania's basilica cattedrale Sant'Agata V.M.:
http://tinyurl.com/2ag3uwa
In the same notice the second and third links to views of Agatha's veil no longer function. Nor do the links to views of her arm relic at Alė (ME) in northeastern Sicily.
In the same notice's set of images focusing on the removal of Agatha's breasts during her martyrdom, add this expandable view of Agatha's suffering as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 33r):
http://tinyurl.com/7ot72x7
In the same set of images, the link to a view of the late fifteenth-century fresco by Giovan Pietro da Cemmo and assistants in the chiesa di Santa Maria at Esine (BS) in Lombardy no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7d527se
In that same set of images, the link to the initial image of Agatha holding a dish bearing her severed breasts as depicted by Piero della Francesca in his Polyptch of St. Anthony no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.wga.hu/art/p/piero/1/3anton07.jpg
In the same notice add these links to illustrated, Italian-language accounts of the originally twelfth-century basilica collegiata di Sant'Agata in Asciano (SI) in sourthern Tuscany:
http://tinyurl.com/7ukdo77
http://tinyurl.com/77ned2a
In the same notice, the first link to the Italian-language accounts of the chiesa di Sant'Agata in Quartu Sant'Elena (CA) in southern Sardinia no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/76k2tmm
In the same notice add these links to views of the originally fourteenth-century capella reial de Santa Agata in Barcelona:
http://tinyurl.com/7ymmf8y
http://tinyurl.com/7mskqlg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jupana/4415980193/
http://tinyurl.com/7gg94z6
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/25124902.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/7qvpgq9
http://tinyurl.com/6pre5dz
In the same earlier post's notice of Adelaide of Vilich, the first link to the views of the Stiftskirche St. Peter in Bonn-Beuel no longer functions. Nor does the link to the first view of the interior. Replacement views for both, and also a ground plan, may be found on this German-language Wikipedia page:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter_%28Vilich%29
In the same notice add this exterior view of that church's chevet:
http://tinyurl.com/6tndfnv
Best,
John Dillon
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