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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' (2009) for 15. July (including St. Felix of Tibiuca; St. Jacob of Nisibis; St. Plechelm; St. Gumbert of Ansbach; St. Athanasius of Naples; St. David of Munktorp; St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio):
http://tinyurl.com/899qrzx
Further to Jacob of Nisibis:
Many expandable views of the church of Mar Jacob (mostly of the interior) at Nisibis / Nusaybin will be found on this page:
http://www.livius.org/ne-nn/nisibis/nisibis.html
Another interior view:
http://tinyurl.com/2o3hfl
Further to Plechelm:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to the Archimon page of views of his church at Oldenzaal (Ov) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.archimon.nl/overijssel/oldenzaalplechelmus.html
In the same notice, the second link to 'Other views' of the same church no longer takes one there directly. Use this instead:
http://www.rkk.nl/imglib/kn_744814_oldenzaal_plechelmus.jpg
Further to Gumbert of Ansbach:
A revised set of views of the St.-Gumbertus-Kirche in Ansbach:
Exterior views showing medieval portions (most of the church was rebuilt in the eighteenth century):
http://tinyurl.com/c5ohjso
http://tinyurl.com/lcthwq
http://tinyurl.com/cesjpdz
http://tinyurl.com/6pozytq
That last structure is the earlier sixteenth-century east choir (betw. 1501 and 1523), now called the Schwanenritterkapelle. Here's an interior view:
http://tinyurl.com/cwww38a
The eleventh-century crypt:
http://sommersuche.blogspot.com/2008/08/ein-raetsel-in-ansbach.html
http://tinyurl.com/7akvpr9
Further to David of Munktorp:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to the view of David as portrayed on the fourteenth-century bronze baptismal font of Munktorps kyrka no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:David_Munkfors.gif
In the same notice, most of the links to views of Munktorps kyrka (in two parts: the tiny, eleventh-century "Davidskyrkan" in front and the rather larger, mostly thirteenth- to sixteenth-century "Stora kyrkan") no longer function. Use these instead:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munktorp.jpg
http://www.allakartor.se/venue_images_475/57431_18335180.jpg
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/David_von_Vaesteras2.jpg
http://www.allakartor.se/venue_images_475/57431_52454675.jpg
Other views (incl. not a few of the interior):
http://www.kyrkokartan.se/057431/images/57431_18335180
Further to Bonaventure of Bagnoregio:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, a better date for the commencement of the construction of the église Saint-Bonaventure in Lyon would be 1325-1327.
Two illustrated, French-language pages on this much rebuilt church:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89glise_Saint-Bonaventure
http://www.saintbonaventure-lyon.catholique.fr/spip.php?article42
Other views are here:
http://dvalot.free.fr/pictures/presquile.htm#Bonaventure
and here (left-click to expand the thumbnails):
http://www.fotop.net/Newbie/StBonaventure
Today (15. July) is also the feast day of:
Joseph of Thessaloniki (d. 832). Like his older brother St. Theodore the Stoudite, Joseph (also Joseph the Stoudite) underwent a religious conversion as a young man under the influence of St. Plato of Sakkoudion, whose monastery near Mt. Olympus in Bithynia they soon joined. In perhaps 796, Plato having died and the monastery having suffered a reversal of fortune (largely in consequence of Theodore's refusal to countenance what he considered the adulterous second marriage of emperor Constantine VI), he followed Theodore into exile in Thessaloniki. In 799 the empress Irene (797-802) named Theodore head of the Stoudios monastery of St. John the Baptist in Constantinople; Joseph accompanied his brother there. In late 806 or early 807 Joseph was named metropolitan of Thessaloniki but in 809 he was again exiled, along with Theodore and others of their family, under Nicephorus I. Recalled after the latter's death in 811, he shared his brother's resistance to the iconoclast policies of Leo V (813-21) and so was again in exile from 815 to 821. It is not clear whether Joseph had been able to return to Thessaloniki in or shortly after 811; he certainly was not able to do so in or after 821. He is best known for his encomium of Thessaloniki's great saint Demetrius (BHG 535) and for numerous hymns that for a long time were mistakenly ascribed to his homonym St. Joseph the Hymnographer.
In 844, after the Triumph of Orthodoxy, Theodore's and Joseph's remains were translated into the Stoudios monastery and were there interred next to those of St. Plato of Sakkoudion. In Byzantine synaxaries today is Joseph's feast day (this is also his day of commemoration in the RM); more recently, Greek Orthodox churches celebrate him on 14. July.
Best,
John Dillon
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