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Herewith a link to an earlier (2005) 'Saints of the day' for 13. July (including St. Silas; St. Eugenius of Carthage; St. Mildred; St. Henry II, emperor; Bl. James of Voragine [_sic_]):
http://tinyurl.com/d3khq5d
Further to Silas:
It is commonly held that the Silas of Acts (his name there is a hellenization of an Aramaic one) is identical with the Silvanus of the Pauline epistles and of 1 Peter (this Roman name form may have been adopted by S. for missionary work among gentiles). The latter's reported movements (cf. 1 Thess 1:1; 2 Thess 1:1; 2 Cor 1:19; see 1 Pet 5:12) correspond closely with those of Silas in Acts (cf. Acts 15:22, 27, 32, 40; 16:19, 25, 29; 17:4, 10, 14, 15; 18:5).
At excavated ancient Philippi (near Kavala in northeastern Greece) one may visit a structure whose cistern is tendentiously advertised as the prison in which Paul and Silas were placed (cf. Acts 16:19ff.):
http://tinyurl.com/83799o5
http://tinyurl.com/728pbby
The cistern:
http://tinyurl.com/8yfm53b
Silvanus (at center, betw. St. Timothy and St. Paul) as depicted at the beginning of 1 Thess in the eleventh- or twelfth-century Second Bible of Saint-Martial de Limoges (Paris, BnF, ms. 8(2), fol. 254v):
http://tinyurl.com/7npue7n
Silvanus (at center, betw. St. Timothy and St. Paul) as depicted at the beginning of 1 Thess in a twelfth- or thirteenth-century bible of central Italian origin (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 320, fol. 278v):
http://tinyurl.com/8xwqpeo
Further to Eugenius of Carthage:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, a more faith-neutral way of expressing the first sentence would be to say, 'In 481, during a brief period of official toleration in Vandal Africa, Eugenius became the first Nicene orthodox bishop of Carthage after 24 years in which the only bishops of that city were Arian.'
Further to Mildred:
Mildred has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
Further to Henry II:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'and became king/emperor in 1002 after the untimely death of his cousin Otto III.' perhaps read 'and became king of the Germans in 1002 after the untimely death of his cousin Otto III. His imperial coronation ensued in 1014.'
Henry, supported by Sts. Ulrich and Emmeram, being crowned king of the Germans as depicted in a full-page illumination in an early eleventh-century sacramentary (betw. 1002 and 1014) now in the BSB in Munich (Clm 4456, fol. 11r):
http://www.mittelalter.uni-tuebingen.de/files/images/bild_4d.jpg
Henry (upper register, just left of center; just right of center, empress Kunigunde) being crowned king of the Germans as depicted in a full-page miniature in the early eleventh-century Gospel Pericopes of Henry II (betw. 1007 and 1014) now in the BSB in Munich (Clm 4452, fol. 2r):
http://tinyurl.com/cl3z452
Henry (at right) and empress St. Kunigunde as portrayed, in recent replacement copies (mounted, 2002), in statues on Bamberg cathedral's Adamspforte (Adam's Portal; variously dated to ca. 1225 or to ca. 1237; the original statues are now in the archdiocesan museum):
http://tinyurl.com/3a3z5w
http://tinyurl.com/ygabfrd
Henry (at right; at left, empress St. Kunigunde) as portrayed in statues from ca. 1290 on Basel's ex-cathedral, the Basler Münster, whose rebuilding Henry initiated and which later medieval tradition in Basel held had been consecrated in the couple's presence in 1019:
http://www.altbasel.ch/pic/doss_heinrich1.jpg
Detail view (Henry):
http://tinyurl.com/6sjsezg
Henry (at left; at right, empress St. Kunigunde) as portrayed on the earlier fourteenth-century tomb (1340) of bishop St. Otto of Bamberg (d. 1139) in the crypt of Bamberg's St. Michelskirche:
http://tinyurl.com/l9c65p
http://tinyurl.com/ykrx3se
Henry (upper register, at left) and empress St. Kunigunde flanking the BVM and Christ Child as depicted in an originally early fifteenth-century (ca. 1414) window from the Andreaskapelle in the cathedral cloister at Bamberg, now in the archdiocesan museum:
http://tinyurl.com/yjfcxjr
Henry (at left) and empress St. Kunigunde holding the cathedral of Bamberg as depicted in a woodcut in the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's _Nuremberg Chronicle_ (1493; fol. CLXXXVIr):
http://tinyurl.com/c3hpqf
Henry (at left) and empress St. Kunigunde flanking the BVM and Christ Child as portrayed in a sculpture of ca. 1511 on the facade of Basel's city hall:
http://www.altbasel.ch/pic/doss_heinrich3.jpg
Henry (at right; at left, empress St. Kunigunde) as portrayed in gisants on the imperial couple's earlier sixteenth-century (1513) tomb by Tilman Riemenschneider in the cathedral of Bamberg:
http://tinyurl.com/6oq2gl2
Many good views of this monument (whose reliefs show scenes from the life of Henry and Kunigunde) are here:
http://flickriver.com/photos/hen-magonza/tags/kaisergrab/
Henry (at center) as portrayed in an earlier sixteenth-century statue on Bamberg cathedral's so-called Riemenschneider Altar (the statue of St. Sebastian has been atributed to Tilman Riemenschneider):
http://tinyurl.com/7a9j3wh
Henry (at right) and St. Castulus flanking the BVM and Christ Child as portrayed on the earlier sixteenth-century altarpiece (1514) of the Münster St. Kastulus in Moosburg an der Isar:
http://tinyurl.com/7zubrgl
Henry (at right) as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century window (1520) in the Saal des Regierungsrates in Basel's city hall:
http://www.bs.ch/heinrich-gross.jpg
Further to James 'of Voragine':
Better, 'of Varagine', an older Italian name form for today's Varazze (SV) in Liguria. Better still, if one ordinarily uses modern name forms, 'of Varazze'.
Views of Jacopo da Varazze's gisant from his (earlier fourteenth-century?) tomb in Genoa's chiesa di San Domenico, now in the Museo di Sant'Agostino in the same city (photographs courtesy of Marjorie Greene):
http://medrelart.shutterfly.com/240#242
http://medrelart.shutterfly.com/240#241
http://medrelart.shutterfly.com/240#243
Jacopo da Varazze preaching as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (1348) of his _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jacques de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 1r):
http://tinyurl.com/6okhu3t
Best,
John Dillon
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