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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 24. May (including St. Manahen; St. Zoellus; St. Servulus of Trieste; Sts. Donatian and Rogatian, the _enfants nantais_; the Thirty-eight Martyrs of Philippopolis; St. Elpidius; St. Vincent of Lérins; St. Symeon Stylites the Younger):
http://tinyurl.com/7nzn2ol
Further to Donatian and Rogatian:
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, please strike the third paragraph and replace it with this:
The baptistère Saint-Jean in Le Puy-en-Velay preserves on its north wall a degraded, thirteenth-century painting of what is said to be Donatian and Rogatian confessing their faith. An expandable, black-and-white view of that painting (upper left, followed by what appears to be the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence) is here:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2200/sap83_43w00927_p.jpg
and a watercolor of it is here:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0750/sap82_pm014178_p.jpg
Further to Symeon Stylites the Younger:
In Orthodox and other Eastern-rite churches Symeon's feast occurs either today or in very early September. In the RM prior to its revision of 2001 Symeon was commemorated on 3. September.
A revised and enlarged set of visuals for this saint:
An illustrated, English-language page on the remains of Symeon's monastery, now the Aziz Simon Manastırı, on Samandağ ('Symeon's Mountain') in Turkey's Hatay province:
http://www.anadolukatolikkilisesi.org/antakya/en/stilita.asp
Views (from different positions) of the remains of Symeon's pillar in the center of the monastery:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6634520.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/2220191997_d5d56b31f6_b.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2bn3m6p
http://tinyurl.com/3sme952
More views of the monastery are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44354934@N00/sets/72157603796207942/
http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/simon
One side of a sixth-century pottery pilgrim's token said to be from Symeon's monastery, now in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ont.):
http://tinyurl.com/7cr2hd8
For some context for that token see Averil Cameron, _The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600_ (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 76-78.
One side of an eleventh(?)-century lead pilgrim's token from Symeon's monastery, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH):
http://tinyurl.com/88d6rj5
For a discussion of this piece and of similar tokens from the cult sites of both Symeon the Elder and Symeon the Younger, see:
http://asketikos.info/pdfarticles/verdier.pdf
Symeon as depicted in the late twelfth-century frescoes (1192; cleaned and conserved, 1962-1972) in the church of the Panagia tou Arakou at Lagoudera (Nicosia prefecture) in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://tinyurl.com/3a5wpm7
http://tinyurl.com/2cqhzp4
Symeon as depicted (at left; at right, Moses' successor Joshua) in a September calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/3gpjp5m
Symeon as depicted in a fourteenth-century fresco in the church of the Panagia at Agrelopou, near Kalamoti, on Chios:
http://tinyurl.com/3o3kx5s
Best,
John Dillon
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