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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 6. July (including St. Dominica; St. Romulus of Fiesole; St. Sisoes; St. Palladius of Ireland; St. Monenna; St. Justus of Condat [or of Saint-Claude]; St. Goar):
http://tinyurl.com/6rsqjkw
Further to Romulus of Fiesole:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to an Italian-language history of Fiesole's originally early eleventh-century cathedral of San Romolo no longer functions. Use these instead (the second has expandable views):
http://tinyurl.com/6r4mec9
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duomo_di_Fiesole
In the same notice, the link to the four pages of views of this church also no longer functions. Herewith a new set of visuals for Fiesole's cattedrale di San Romolo, starting with its mostly neo-romanesque exterior:
http://tinyurl.com/6w6xj3s
http://www.comune.fiesole.fi.it/contenuti/foto/foto%202/15.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/78xz5k4
http://www.inyourtuscany.com/bengine/files/articoli/Fiesole-new02.jpg
Interior views:
http://tinyurl.com/79x798m
http://tinyurl.com/cpu5sxq
http://tinyurl.com/clhgzrf
http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/3556?popped=1
http://www.firenzeclassica.com/immagini/duomo%20fiesole.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/dyke3zp
Crypt:
http://tinyurl.com/7amlcpt
http://tinyurl.com/75v4s2h
Further to Sisoes:
In the second paragraph of that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'Theophanes Strelitzas (T. of Crete)' please read 'Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes of Crete)'.
Further to Goar:
A revised set of views of the Stiftskirche St. Goar in Sankt Goar, starting with the aerial view at far right in the first row here (left-click to expand):
http://www.rheinhessen-luftbild.de/thumbnails-7-page-2.html
Other exterior views:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2984260685_9ffa436879_b.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/c4mdeef
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/61616815.jpg
http://www.weinkonvent-st-goar.de/images/Stiftskirche-Nordseite-300.jpg
http://www.emporis.com/images/show/701343-Large.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/739yolt
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/57379534.jpg
Interior views:
http://tinyurl.com/8xyz5zc
http://tinyurl.com/2cojzzv
http://tinyurl.com/7pwmc3p
http://tinyurl.com/ce77sec
http://tinyurl.com/7te9uqb
http://tinyurl.com/7wdt9t7
Vault paintings:
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/ee/64/36/frescos-at-its-ceiling.jpg
The paintings in that last view are dated from between 1469 and 1489. They had been whitewashed over and were discovered in the early twentieth century. The saint holding the church is presumably Goar.
Goar is also the subject of one of the church's few surviving glass windows from ca. 1450:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Goar.jpg
Crypt:
http://www.welterbe-atlas.de/typo3temp/pics/8ac46c26d6.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/7aqvzv3
Today (6. July) is also the feast day of:
Sexburga (d. ca. 700). An Anglo-Saxon queen of Kent, Sexburga (Seaxburh) is said by St. Bede the Venerable to have succeeded her sister St. Etheldreda (Æthelthryth, Audrey) as abbess at Ely and to have arranged for the translation of her sister's remains to Ely and for their enshrinement there when they had been discovered to be incorrupt. Later texts in Old English have her enter religion as a widow along with her daughter Ermenilda (Eormenhild) at an abbey in Milton Regis (Kent), of which the isle of Sheppey was a dependency, and present her as founding a minster in Sheppey that took thirty years to construct. Sexburga's twelfth-century Vita from Ely (BHL 7693) ties these strands together by having her and Ermenilda come to Ely as nuns who had already spent some time at her foundation in Kent; it gives today as her _dies natalis_. Sexburga's relics were translated into the present Ely cathedral in 1106 (presumably on 17. October, the date of Ely's feast of her translation). She has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
The priory of St Mary (now the minster of St. Mary and St Sexburga) at Minster-in-Sheppey (Kent), first recorded from the late eleventh century, seems to have been the successor of Sexburga's minster. An account of it from the 1920s in the Victoria History of Kent is here:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38200
And a brief account of the surviving buildings is here:
http://www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Minster+in+Sheppey
Three expandable views of the buildings are here:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=33057502
Best,
John Dillon
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