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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 5. May (including St. Euthymius of Alexandria; St. Irene the Great Martyr; St. Hilarius of Arles; St. Godehard; St. Leo of Africo; St. Angelus the Carmelite):
http://tinyurl.com/7qblddb
Further to Irene the Great Martyr:
A monastery dedicated to this Irene is attested at Patras from the ninth century through at least the later Middle Ages; remains of its late ninth- or early tenth-century church, identified inscriptionally, were discovered during excavations in 1984. By the early thirteenth century this monastery was in possession of a cranium said to be Irene's, which latter a Frankish bishop of Patras gave in 1231 to to the abbey of Hautecombe in today's Saint-Pierre-de-Courtille (Savoie). In 2002 that object was returned to Patras, where it is housed in that city's newly built (1994-1999) church of St. Irene the Great Martyr in the very section (Riganokampou) where the monastery once stood. Here's a view of the relic:
http://tinyurl.com/79q7h8s
This portrayal of a St. Irene (at right; at left, St. Catherine of Alexandria) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki is iconographically that of a female great martyr and thus more likely to be today's saint than her homonym of Thessaloniki celebrated in the Roman church on 5. April (which latter, relying on the church's location in Thessaloniki, is how I rashly identified the same portrayal only a month ago):
http://tinyurl.com/3wnopzz
Detail view (Irene):
http://tinyurl.com/3lz542q
Further to Godehard:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the first and third of the links to further views of the church of St. Michael in Hildesheim no longer function. Use these instead:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6200166.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/2584248921/lightbox/
And add these views of the church's originally earlier thirteenth-century painted ceiling (ca. 1230):
http://tinyurl.com/8ys4ehu
http://tinyurl.com/7xpx73s
http://tinyurl.com/723z26x
In the same notice, after the link to a view of Godehard's twelfth-century shrine in the Hildesheimer Dom add this brief video showing the opening of shrine in 2010 prior to its current restoration in Switzerland:
http://www.domsanierung.de/en/shrine_godehard
An expandable view of the opened shrine is here:
http://tinyurl.com/6pj9vnl
In the same notice's links to views of the Hildesheimer Dom, for 'G., above the north portal' please read 'A late thirteenth-century statue of G. at the northwest portal". The link provided there no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7qf6ok4
And this for the statue's immediate context:
http://www.bildindex.de/obj20395569.html#|home
In the same notice, the following link to 'Many other views' no longer functions. Neither does the second link to the views of 'Gothic' chapels and a transept. Instead, here's a corresponding view from the other side of the church:
http://tinyurl.com/7tjhv5q
In the same notice, the first of the links to pages of multiple views of Godehard's Basilika Sankt Godehard no longer functions. Neither does the link to a view of that church's portal with Godehard at right in the tympanum. For that, use this link to a greatly expandable view instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7gxedwk
In the same notice, the first of several links to views of the chiesa dei Santi Colombano e Gottardo in Arlate (LC) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50659239@N00/2996410410/
A better exterior view of the apses of this church:
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/61144658.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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