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Greetings all !
I'm trying to follow up on the most famous motif, that of the swallowed fish-bone, in the legend of St. Blaise.
In a book I am reading, it states that the boy having swallowed bone BECAME MUTE, and cites the Redford translation of Migne’s treatment in Patrologia graeca CXVI cols. 817-29.
My questions: Does anyone have access to Symeon's Monologion (should that be Menologion?) in the original, to confirm that the boy is explicitly stated to become mute?
Second, was Symeon’s work known in Latin (or the vernacular for that matter!) in the Middle Ages? I’m looking for parallel cases in Western Europe in which the boy’s inability to speak is an issue (as well as, of course, the fact that he is near death. In most texts to which I have access it has become a resuscitation miracle.)
Of course what I would like most would be references to primary sources, in whatever language, where this appears!
Thanks in advance,
Meg
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Feasts and Saints of the Day: July 20
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On 07/20/12, I wrote:
> Further to Marina / Margaret of Antioch:
>
> In that earlier post's notice of this saint, in the depictions of her the link to item j) (the mid-fifteenth-century panel painting variously attributed to Jacomart or to Joan Reixach) no longer functions. Use this instead:
> http://tinyurl.com/6sdja5g
> This distance of the painting as mounted for an exhibition may give a better impression of its dimensions:
> http://tinyurl.com/7f45hyg
Er, this distance _view_ of the painting... Apologies for the slip.
20. July is also the feast day of:
Elias (d. 9th cent. BCE). The prophet Elias (also Elijah; both forms are translations from the Hebrew) needs no introduction to the learned of this list. Herewith a few portrayals, avoiding -- with two closely contemporary early exceptions -- Transfiguration scenes as we are likely to have links to a number of these come 6. August.
Elias (at right; at left, the prophet Moses) as depicted in the Transfiguration in the mid-sixth-century apse mosaics (betw. 533 and 549) of Ravenna's basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/4635403080_7770806912_o.jpg
Detail view (Elias):
http://tinyurl.com/cz3qf6h
Elias (at left; at right, the prophet Moses) as depicted in the Transfiguration in the recently restored, later sixth-century apse mosaics (ca. 560-565) in the katholikon of St. Catherine's monastery at St. Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai governorate:
http://tinyurl.com/ch7web4
http://www.katapi.org.uk/images/Churches/StCathSinaiApsehq.jpg
Detail view (Elias):
http://tinyurl.com/d8orj5y
Elias as depicted in a seventh-century encaustic icon at the aforesaid St. Catherine's monastery:
http://tinyurl.com/7lphwbg
A black-and white view of Elias' ascension as depicted in the later eleventh-century Theodore Psalter (1066; of Constantinopolitan origin; London, BL, Ms Add. 19352, fol. 27v):
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=ru&type=1&id=3540
Elias as depicted in a later eleventh-century fresco in the Elmalı kilise (Apple Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province:
http://tinyurl.com/6qjzqj6
Elias' ascension as depicted in a mid-twelfth-century Latin-language bible (Sens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1, p. 302):
http://tinyurl.com/c7579qv
Elias 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/74ntjuh
Elias as depicted in a twelfth-century icon in the Byzantine Museum of Kastoria:
http://www.varvar.ru/arhiv/slovo/images/prorok_Ilia_kostur.jpg
Elias being fed by a raven as depicted in a later twelfth-century icon at the aforesaid St. Catherine's monastery:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=3660
Elias' ascension as depicted in an early thirteenth-century Latin-language bible (betw. 1200 and 1210; Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 173v):
http://tinyurl.com/cutoc7f
Elias as depicted in mid-thirteenth-century frescoes in the church of the Dormition in the Morača monastery in Kolašin in central Montenegro:
a) Being fed by a raven:
http://tinyurl.com/brtj9p9
http://tinyurl.com/cddw2wp
http://tinyurl.com/coslo2z
b) Being fed by the widow of Zarephath:
http://tinyurl.com/d2hpuuc
http://tinyurl.com/bptbmyu
Detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/ckk9mug
http://tinyurl.com/co8whx4
c) Anointing Hazael:
http://www.monumentaserbica.com/mushushu/images/30.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/bm2t3dh
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/bs882og
Elias prophesying to Ozochias the latter's death as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century Latin-language bible (betw. 1220 and 1230; Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 1185, fol. 100r):
http://tinyurl.com/bm583uz
Elias' ascension as depicted in a perhaps late thirteenth-century icon of north Russian origin:
http://tinyurl.com/bqsv84l
Elias' ascension as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/833by9u
Elias being fed by a raven as depicted 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/78vdc9h
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/7fmzcqt
Elias' ascension as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/ceheam8
http://tinyurl.com/73tcjut
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/6w5whra
Elias prophesying to Ozochias the latter's death as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (betw. 1320 and 1337) of Petrus Comestor's _Historia scholastica_ (Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 20, fol. 186v):
http://tinyurl.com/cktve6h
Elias as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the altar area of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/7n3j22w
Elias (at left; at right, the prophet Daniel) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the dome of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/6urlyy2
Elias' ascension as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century Tree of Jesse frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the narthex of the aforementioned church of the Holy Ascension in the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć:
http://tinyurl.com/7eclq3e
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/843y6oj
Elias as depicted in a fresco of 1378 by Theophanes the Greek in the church of the Transfiguration in the Ilyina Street in Veliky Novgorod:
http://tinyurl.com/cpr49jy
Elias being fed by a raven as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century Novgorod School icon now in the Karelian Fine Arts Museum, Petrozavodsk:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=589
A few dedications to the prophet Elias:
The originally eleventh-century basilica di Sant'Elia in Castel Sant'Elia (VT) in northern Lazio, consecrated in the earlier twelfth-century and restored in the nineteenth century (NB: this church is also known as the basilica di Sant'Anastasio):
http://tinyurl.com/cgw6wla
http://tinyurl.com/d4ch5ht
http://tinyurl.com/cu285og
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39502900@N07/6341652460/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klio/4200581726/
http://tinyurl.com/c6dtk7a
The two pages on this church at Italia nell'Arte Medievale have detail views of its carvings and of its twelfth-century frescoes:
http://tinyurl.com/cakzbag
http://tinyurl.com/bs4uv9g
The originally eleventh-century crkva sv. Ilije in Bale (Istra) in Croatia, refurbished in the fourteenth century:
http://www.geolocation.ws/v/P/48426332/sv-ilija-11-st-/en
http://tinyurl.com/dyvg4r5
An illustrated, Croatian-language site on the originally twelfth-century crkva sv. Ilije in Parčić in Croatia's Šibensko-Kniniska province (the views lower down on the page are expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/ct3xfv7
Single views:
http://tinyurl.com/buaett6
http://tinyurl.com/cf3xt9t
http://tinyurl.com/cfv6yxx
http://tinyurl.com/c396yke
Best,
John Dillon
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