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On 07/13/12, I wrote:
> Further to Henry II:
> 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
Just to be absolutely clear, the Ulrich depicted here is he of Augsburg.
Yet further to Henry II:
Expandable views of a probably later twelfth-century reliquary of Henry, said to have been made for St. Michael's in Hildesheim and now in Paris in the Musée du Louvre:
http://tinyurl.com/7mxunfx
Henry (at far left, holding a candle) as portrayed on the later twelfth-century tympanum (ca. 1175) of the west portal of the Münster St. Kastulus in Moosburg an der Isar:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2365/2153682675_a6138790c1_o.jpg
http://www.kathedralen.net/moosburg/moosburg00.html
Henry as depicted in a panel from a mid-fourteenth-century window (ca. 1340-1350) formerly in the Stadtpfarrkirche zum Hl. Leonhard in Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal in Austria's Land Kärnten and now in the Cloisters Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:
http://tinyurl.com/7j96psk
> Further to James 'of Voragine':
> 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
Er, _Jean_ de Vignay (of course).
13. July is also the feast day of:
Serapion of Alexandria (d. early 3d cent.?). The (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology enters under this day a Serapion who died in Alexandria. Byzantine synaxaries celebrate under this day a Serapion who is not identified geographically but whose notice, seemingly based on a now lost Passio, has him martyred by fire under an emperor Severus after a trial before a governor named Aquilas. A prefect of Egypt of that name is recorded for the tenth year of the emperor Septimius Severus (193-211), under whom persecutions of Christians are known to have taken place (as opposed, say, to the reign of Severus Alexander, whose persecuting is attested only in Passiones of legendary character).
The Serapion of 13. July (at right) as depicted in a July calendar composition 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 in Staro Nagorièane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/78eh9oz
NB: The episcopal St. Akilas at left in the same view is something of a puzzle. This is clearly in a July calendar (e.g. the saints immediately above this pair are Proclus and Hilarion [12. July]) and in Byzantine synaxaries there is an Akulas on 14. July: the apostle (disciple) Aquila, commemorated in the RM on 8. July along with his wife Priscilla. But the iconography doesn't fit that saint, who should instead be one of the bishops so or similarly named: Achillas of Alexandria (7. November) or Achilles / Achillius of Larissa (15. May).
Best again,
John Dillon
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