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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 25. February (including St. Caesarius of Nazianzus; St. Walburg; St. Gerland of Agrigento; Bl. Robert of Arbrissel):
http://tinyurl.com/6q8cx4a
Further to Walburg:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the painting depicting the abbey's founding (with Walburg portrayed at lower right) should have been dated to _ca._ 1360. The notice's links to a view of it and to Walburg's resting place in the crypt of the Pfarrkirche St. Walburg in Eichstätt no longer function. Use these instead:
Painting of ca. 1360:
http://tinyurl.com/74whney
Walburg's resting place:
http://tinyurl.com/87wltyx
In the same notice, add these exterior views of the Burgkapelle St. Walpurgis in Nürnberg:
http://tinyurl.com/739o9mo
http://tinyurl.com/7zm8zl4
http://tinyurl.com/85944dn
http://tinyurl.com/6pgykwu
and these interior views (the page at the second link offers not a few expandable views below the large image):
http://tinyurl.com/7qs6guh
http://tinyurl.com/85a2hl3
In the same notice, the link to an illustrated, English-language page on the Kirche St. Walburga at Ramsdorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen no longer functions. Likewise the first and third links to other views of said church. Use this link to what seems to be the old page with a new address and with expandable thumbnails giving access to the views in question:
http://our-kin.com/Nieland/History/Places/StWalburgaChurch.htm
Further to Gerland of Agrigento:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to the side view of the belltower of Agrigento's cattedrale metropolitana di San Gerlando and the second of the two links to views of the polygonal columns in the nave no longer function. Use these instead:
Side view of the tower:
http://tinyurl.com/77hqhcc
Polygonal columns in the nave:
http://tinyurl.com/7e95rkg
In the same notice, the third of the four links to views of Agrigento's chiesa di San Biagio (built over the base of a former temple to Demeter) no longer functions. Use instead the expandable views here (left-click only):
http://www.lavalledeitempli.eu/santuario_rupestre_di_demetra.html
In the same notice, the link to an illustrated account of the chiesa di San Nicola in Agrigento's Valle dei Templi now leads only to an exterior view of that church.
In the same notice, the link to a second view of Agrigento's ex-chiesa di San Giorgio degli Oblati no longer functions. As these better images of the portal show, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the church was in even poorer shape:
http://images.alinari.it/img/480/AVQ/AVQ-A-001860-0046.jpg
http://images.alinari.it/img/480/FBQ/FBQ-F-002354-0000.jpg
http://images.alinari.it/img/480/ACA/ACA-F-019665-0000.jpg
In the same notice, the final link to views of Agrigento's Santo Spirito complex no longer functions. Use the menu of views at the bottom of this page and click on 'Avanti' (at right and just above the menu of views) to get to further sets of views:
http://www.monasterosantospiritoag.it/foto-galleri.html?vsig12_0=6
Today (25. February) is also the feast day of:
1) Nestor of Magydos (d. 250). What little is known about this reported victim of the Decian persecution (also Nestor of Perge) comes from a seemingly largely authentic brief Passio (BHG 1328-1328e; Latin version: BHL 6068) that makes him bishop of the coastal city of Magydos in Pamphylia. Towards the outset of that persecution he was arrested by imperial commissioners who sent him under guard to the provincial capitol of Perge. There he was tried before the governor, refused to sacrifice to pagan gods, was racked, refused again to offer the obligatory sacrifice, and then was executed by crucifixion. Thus far his Passio, which is in the form of a quasi-notarial account with hagiographic trimmings.
Nestor's feast has occurred on various days toward the end of February. The earliest witness of the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology enters him under today. Ninth-century martyrologies (those of St. Ado of Vienne and Usuard have elogia of him derived from his Passio), followed by the RM prior to its revision of 2001, enter him under 26. February. The revised RM of 2001 returned Nestor's commemoration to today in accordance with its frequent practice of using a saint's earliest recorded feast day. Orthodox churches celebrate him on 28. February.
2) Adelelmus of Engelberg (d. ca. 1131). Adelelmus (in German, usually Adelhelm) was the first abbot of Engelberg abbey (at Engelberg in canton Obwalden), founded in 1120 by the Swiss nobleman St. Konrad of Sellenbüren (or Seldenbüren). His cult is said to be first documented from 1147. Both he and Konrad (celebrated on 2. May) received an elevatio at the abbey in 1611. Neither has thus far been canonized papally or has graced the pages of the RM.
Best,
John Dillon
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