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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 25. April (including St. Mark, apostle and evangelist; St. An(n)ianus; St. Phoebadius of Agen; St. Clarentius; St. Ermin(i)us of Lobbes; St. Franca of Piacenza):
http://tinyurl.com/7poeh9q
Further to Mark, apostle and evangelist:
Mark's sarcophagus in Venice's basilica cattedrale di San Marco:
http://tinyurl.com/78yl894
http://www.sonofman.org/images/bol152.jpg
Bones said to be Mark's in the same church:
http://www.sonofman.org/images/bol151.jpg
Mark (at right; at left, St. John, apostle and evangelist) as depicted in the restored eleventh-century frescoes of the Karanlık kilise (Dark Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province:
http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/41566368
Mark about to be martyred at Alexandria as depicted in a restored twelfth-century mosaic in the presbytery of the basilica cattedrale di San Marco in Venice:
http://tinyurl.com/75cczzz
Mark as depicted in the later fourteenth-century frescoes (1360s and 1370s; restored in 1968-1970) in the church of St. Demetrius in Marko's monastery at Markova Sušica (near Skopje) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/8ynem6g
In that previous post's notice of this saint, please disregard the link to what is said to be a detail view of Mark as depicted by Beato Angelico in his Crucifixion with Saints in the chapter room of what is now the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence (it's actually a detail view of the depiction of St. Romuald of Ravenna).
Further to An(n)ianus:
In that previous post's notice of this saint, the link to a smallish view of Mark healing An(n)ianus as portrayed by Pietro Lombardo in the later fifteenth-century portal relief (1478) of Venice's chiesa di San Tomà no longer functions. Use instead this much better view of the same relief:
http://tinyurl.com/7pkmn5k
Further to Phoebadius of Agen:
In the previous post's notice of this saint, the third and fourth links to views of the église Saint-Pierre (et Saint-Phébade) in Venerque (Haute-Garonne) no longer function. Use these instead:
http://tinyurl.com/6nne3ps
http://tinyurl.com/7f252ed
More views are here:
http://isaisons.free.fr/Venerque.htm
In the same notice, the link to views of Phoebadius' thirteenth-century reliquary châsse no longer takes one there. Use this instead (the reliquary is the fourth item discussed; the three sets of views are in the 'Notice complète'):
http://tinyurl.com/2a349w4
Further to Ermin(i)us of Lobbes:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a single view of the collégiale Saint-Ursmer at Lobbes no longer functions. There are plenty of views in the two sets led to by the other links.
Today (25. April) is also the feast day of:
1) Stephen of Antioch (d. 479). According to John Malalas (and to others seemingly drawing upon him), Stephen was an orthodox patriarch of Antioch who was killed by anti-Chalcedonians. In the usual enumeration of Antioch's bishops he is Stephen II. Cardinal Baronio entered him in the early RM on the basis of accounts in the church historians Evagrius and Nicephorus Callistus, choosing today for reasons that are no longer clear.
2) Gerasimus of San Lorenzo (d. 11th or 12th cent.). According to his notice in an Italo-Greek synaxary written in 1172 and now in Leipzig (cod. CLXXXVI), this less well known saint of the Regno was a native of San Lorenzo (RC) in Calabria who withdrew further into the Aspromonte, lived there eremitically, attracted followers, and founded the monastery of St. Michael the Archangel in Valle Tuccio. There he served exemplarily and penitently as hegumen, died, was buried, and received a cult. In 1280 Philip of Bova copied a triodion in Gerasimus' honor into codex Messanensis graecus 86. During his visitation in 1457-1458 of the Greek monasteries of southern Italy Athanasios Chalkeopoulos recorded the presence at the monastery of Gerasimus' relics. In the later Middle ages Gerasimus' feast was kept on 14. May; in the sixteenth century it was moved to 14. June. Since 1986 Gerasimus has been celebrated liturgically in San Lorenzo on 25. April, his recorded _dies natalis_. Gerasimus of San Lorenzo has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
In 2010 its was determined in San Lorenzo that a small building there is the house in which Gerasimus was born. Here's a view:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/66018634
Best,
John Dillon
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