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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 26. May (including St. Eleutherius [or Eleutherus], pope; St. Priscus and companions; St. Desiderius of Vienne; St. Pardus; St. Guinizo of Montecassino; St. Berengar of Saint-Papoul; St. Lambert of Vence):
http://tinyurl.com/cztd2hr
Further to Pardus:
In the lemma to that earlier post's notice of this saint, for '7th cent. ?' please read '7th cent., supposedly'.
In the same notice, add at the end of the third paragraph:
P. has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
Further to Berengar of Saint-Papoul:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, please substitute the following for the first two of the links to views of the chevet of the église Saint-Papoul in Saint-Papoul (Aude) and of its sculptures:
http://www.payslauragais.com/illustrations/stpapoul.JPG
http://tinyurl.com/ygsvmlt [the views on this page are expandable]
Today (26. May) is also the feast day of:
Simitrius (?). Absent from the _Depositio martyrum_ of the Chronographer of 354, Simitrius (also Simmitrius, Simetrius, Symmetrius) is a poorly attested saint of cemetery of Priscilla on the Via Salaria, where his burial site is recorded in the earlier seventh-century guidebooks for pilgrims to Rome. The legendary and synthesizing Passio of the similarly poorly attested Sts. Praxedes and Pudentiana (BHL 6988, etc.) makes him a Roman priest killed along with twenty-two other Christians in the _titulus Praxedis_ whose bodies Praxedes heroically gathered up and buried on this day during a persecution under an emperor Antoninus (often said to be Marcus Aurelius, though of course the Severans, some of whom also persecuted Christians, called themselves Antonini too). Simitrius is sometimes presumed to be the eponym of the Roman monastery of St. Symmetrius first attested from the late sixth century in the correspondence of pope St. Gregory the Great.
The martyrdom of Simitrius (at far right, after St. Praxedes) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1335) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080, fol. 148r):
http://tinyurl.com/6pxvjen
Best,
John Dillon
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