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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 1. March (including pope St. Felix III; St. David of St Davids; St. Swithbert; St. Leo Luke of Corleone):
http://tinyurl.com/7e7qkow
Further to Swithbert:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, add these views of his later thirteenth-century reliquary châsse (1264) in the Basilika St. Suitbertus in the Kaiserswerth section of Düsseldorf (in the last view, the enthroned figure at right is Swithbert):
http://tinyurl.com/735j78h
http://tinyurl.com/8absfqw
http://www.kaiserswerther-bruderschaft.de/schrein.jpg
In the same notice, the link to the first set of views of the Basilika St. Suitbertus in Kaiserswerth now leads to a redirect. To go there directly, use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/83ckheo
and add this view of the chevet:
http://www.bilderbuch-duesseldorf.de/Fotos/165719
In the same notice, the link to a view of Swithbert on the seal of his monastery no longer functions.
Today (1. March) is also the feast day of:
Albinus of Angers (d. ca. 550). We know about this Albinus (in French, Aubin) chiefly from his closely posthumous Vita by St. Venantius Fortunatus (BHL 234). A Breton of noble birth, as a young man he entered a monastery in the vicinity of Angers and at the age of thirty-five became its abbot. Twenty-five years later Albinus was made bishop of Angers (against his will, says Fortunatus). In his ca. twenty years as bishop he took part in at least one council of Orléans (that of 538), actively opposed marriages between persons very closely related to each other, displayed humility despite his high station, and operated many miracles. Today is his _dies natalis_.
Albinus was buried in the church of St. Maurilius at Angers; after a few years he was translated into a new church dedicated to him. St. Gregory of Tours relates a healing miracle worked by him at his early tomb (_In gloria confessorum_, 94). By the early seventh century an abbey bearing Albinus' name had arisen next to his church at Angers. Several miracle accounts and numerous church dedications testify to his widespread popularity in the succeeding centuries. In 1070, according to a chronicle entry, Albinus was accorded a translation in his church in Angers. In 1128 he received a new tomb there; a separate account of this translation survives (BHL 237).
Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 1390 is an illuminated, late eleventh-century copy, from his abbey at Angers, of Albinus' Vita. Herewith some views of the illuminations:
http://tinyurl.com/8ydxwzq
http://tinyurl.com/73tr7fa
http://tinyurl.com/7gremue
http://tinyurl.com/6vwjyy8
http://tinyurl.com/7bw64w6
http://tinyurl.com/7rar8yz
http://tinyurl.com/6mllo5v
Parts of Albinus' abbey at Angers dating from the early twelfth century onward survive in the fabrics of the city's préfecture and of the adjacent hôtel du département. See the views here:
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/1a04c4/
http://tinyurl.com/7mzn6ac
Also surviving from that abbey is this originally twelfth-century belltower, the Tour Saint-Aubin:
http://tinyurl.com/7mxjy98
Some views of the originally eleventh- and twelfth-century église Saint-Aubin in Trèves (Maine-et-Loire):
http://tinyurl.com/87ck5zs
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/bernard-petit34/8804704
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/bernard-petit34/8817502
Albinus (at left, presenting a monk to the BVM and the Christ Child; at right, another saint of Angers, Clarus of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (betw. 1301 and 1325) of Bernard of Parma's commentary on the Decretals of Gregory VIII (Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 376, fol. 1r):
http://tinyurl.com/83nqn4b
A brief, illustrated, English-language account of the originally early medieval, much rebuilt, and now mostly fifteenth- and earlier sixteenth-century église collégiale Saint-Aubin at Guérande (Loire-Atlantique):
http://tinyurl.com/7o2jfq5
Other views of this church:
http://tinyurl.com/7j6tbdd
http://tinyurl.com/7oqtswg
http://tinyurl.com/6svs98k
http://tinyurl.com/75dw5qa
http://tinyurl.com/7xvy9wz
Best,
John Dillon
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