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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 8. April (including St. Dionysius of Corinth; St. Dionysius of Alexandria; Sts. Timotheus, Diogenes, Macarius, and Maximus; St. Amantius of Como; St. Redemptus of Ferentino [or of Ferento]; Bl. Manegold of Obermarchtal):
http://tinyurl.com/7ed8zak
Further to Dionysius of Corinth:
Dionysius of Corinth (seemingly) as depicted at upper left in a calendar composition 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/6qanhyp
Further to Dionysius of Alexandria:
Dionysius of Alexandria (upper register, second from left) as depicted in a calendar composition 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/6qanhyp
Further to Amantius of Como:
Add to the views of Como's basilica di Sant'Abbondio this page at Italia nell'Arte Medievale:
http://tinyurl.com/29wonq
Further to Redemptus of Ferentino (or of Ferento):
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the statement that the Italia nell'Arte Medievale page on the cathedral of Ferentino is still off-line is happily no longer valid.
Today (8. April) is also the feast day of:
1) Agabus (d. 1st cent.). The prophetically gifted Agabus (also Agabo) is said in Acts 11:27-28 to have come to Jerusalem from Antioch and to have predicted a great famine soon to befall the Roman world. At Acts 21:10-12 Agabus is said to have met St. Paul at Caesarea in Palestine and to have bound his own hands and feet with Paul's belt in a demonstration of what would happen to Paul at the hands of the Jews should he continue on to Jerusalem. He is traditionally considered to have been one of the Seventy Disciples (in Orthodox churches, Seventy Apostles) and to have suffered martyrdom at Antioch. In the Greek and other Eastern-rite churches Agabus has long been celebrated on this day with an Office also commemorating Herodion and others (see the notices immediately below). Prior to its revision of 2001, when it moved him to today with an entry of his own, the RM entered Agabus under 13. February.
2) Herodion, Asyncritus, and Phlegon (d. 1st cent.). Traditionally numbered among the Seventy Disciples/Apostles these early Christians are among those to whom Paul sends greetings in Romans 16. In the Greek and other Eastern-rite churches they are commemorated today along with Agabus (see the immediately preceding notice) and two others greeted in Romans 16: Rufus (commemorated in the RM under 21. November) and Hermes (see the following notice).
3) Hermes (d. 1st cent.). Another of those sent greetings in Romans 16, Hermes (also Hermas) too is traditionally numbered among the Seventy Apostles/Disciples. Commemorated today in the Greek and other churches along with Agabus, Rufus, Asyncritus, and Phlegon, he is dubiously said to have succeeded Titus as an evangelist in Dalmatia and to have been martyred there. This Hermes has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
Best,
John Dillon
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