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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 1. May (including St. Joseph the Worker; St. Andeolus; St. Hypolistus; St. Orientius of Auch; St. Sigismund of Burgundy; St. Asaph; St. Aredius of Gap; St. Pellegrino Laziosi):
http://tinyurl.com/85p37rr
Further to Andeolus:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the fourth of the five links to views of the former monastery of Sant Aniol d'Aguja (Girona) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7zc2olz
Further to Sigismund of Burgundy:
Two views (the first courtesy of Genevra Kornbluth) of Sigismund as portrayed (at far left) on the Cleveland Museum of Art's eleventh-century portable altar of Countess Gertrude (ca. 1045):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/GertrudeAltar3.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/7kty5w8
An illustrated page on this Ottonian masterpiece:
http://tinyurl.com/7apnxar
Some views of the originally very early fifteenth- to early-sixteenth-century kościół farny św. Zygmunta ('parish church of St. Sigismund') in Szydłowiec in Poland's Mazovia province (nave dated inscriptionally to 1401; vaulting of the choir dated by drawings of it to before 1509):
http://tinyurl.com/8x6nvke
http://tinyurl.com/7wwu6ed
http://tinyurl.com/6ntqu9b
http://absolwent.pwr.wroc.pl/archiwum/elektronika70/Zamojs/Zam40.jpg
http://krodo.pl/upload/places/place_9411301309608707728.JPG
http://absolwent.pwr.wroc.pl/archiwum/elektronika70/Zamojs/Zam41.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/7zlhunz
And herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' post for 1. May with a notice of a saint once celebrated on this day but whose cult appears now to have fallen into desuetude (St. Maurus 'of Libya'):
http://tinyurl.com/76b25sb
In that earlier post's notice of this saint the link to more pre-restoration views of the church of his former monastery in Sannicola (LE) in Apulia no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7vpswya
Today (1. May) is also the feast day of:
Aldebrandus (Bl.; d. ca. 1250). We know about this bishop of Fossombrone (PU) in the northern Marche from a number of documentary sources and from a later thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Vita (BHL 243). Born in a village near Cesena in about 1170, he was a Lateran canon regular at the abbey of Santa Maria del Porto in Ravenna from at least 1199 until 1222, when he became _praepositus_ of the cathedral canons at Rimini. During the 1220s he made a name for himself as a preacher and as a committed foe of 'Patarene' heretics. For his pains he was briefly driven from the city by a mob in 1226. Probably in the latter half of 1230 Aldebrandus was elected bishop of Fossombrone. During his pontificate he began and largely completed the rebuilding of that city's war-damaged cathedral, worked to restore properties that had been alienated from the episcopal _mensa_, and -- according to his Vita -- lived austerely and operated several miracles. Among these were the silencing with a command noisy swallows that were preventing the faithful in the cathedral from hearing him preach and the restoration to life of a partridge that had been cooked for him to consume during his final illness. These and a number of postmortem miracles helped stimulate by the end of the thirteenth century Aldebrandus' local veneration as a saint. The church that at that time became Fossombrone's cathedral was re-dedicated to him; even now the diocese of Fano - Fossombrone - Cagli - Pergola calls him Sant'Aldebrando. Papal canonization never followed and in the RM he is characterized as _Beatus_. His feast day in Fossombrone is on 1. May; in Rimini, where again the diocese calls him Sant'Aldobrando, his feast falls on 11. May.
A monochrome view of the dying Aldebrandus restoring the partridge to life as depicted in a fifteenth-century fresco in Fossombrone's cathedral of Sant'Aldebrando (a co-cathedral of the diocese of Fano - Fossombrone - Cagli - Pergola):
http://tinyurl.com/cf4s2kl
Aldebrandus holding a model of the city in a later fifteenth-century (1480) relief by Domenico Rosselli in the sacristy of Fossombrone's cathedral of Sant'Aldebrando:
http://tinyurl.com/bsoy6ze
Aldebrandus' recent display reliquary in Fossombrone's cathedral (in 2011 his relics were placed in a new polished stone reliquary case in the cathedral's restored cappella di Sant'Aldebrando):
http://tinyurl.com/7o8begm
Best,
John Dillon
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