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Herewith links to the two parts of an earlier (2011) 'Feasts and saints of the day' for 7. August (including [pt. 1] St. Sixtus II, pope, and companions and Sts. Agapitus and Felicissimus; St. Afra of Augsburg; St. Donatus of Arezzo; [pt. 2] St. Victricius of Rouen; Sts. Hathumar and Badurad and Bl. Meinwerk; St. Albert of Trapani; Bl. Albert of Sassoferrato; Bl. Vincent of L'Aquila):
http://tinyurl.com/cbcu3pk
http://tinyurl.com/cme2ss7
Further to Sixtus II, companions, and Agapitus and Felicissimus:
According to the _Liber pontificalis_, the four deacons summarily executed with Sixtus were named Januarius, Magnus, Vincent, and Stephen.
A better view of Sixtus (following Sts. Martin and Clement) as depicted in the procession of male martyrs in Ravenna's basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo:
http://tinyurl.com/cckywhj
Sixtus as portrayed on St Cuthbert's Maniple (so called), an Anglo-Saxon embroidery of ca. 900 in the possession of Durham cathedral:
http://www.oberlin.edu/images/Art335/335-147.JPG
Today's Sixtus is a co-patron of the originally earlier thirteenth- to late fifteenth-century cathedral of Sts. Stephen and Sixtus in Halberstadt. An altar in the Westwerk of that building's Ottonian predecessor was consecrated to Sixtus, Agapitus, Felicissimus, and Januarius; a relic of Agapitus was included in the main altar at its consecration in 992. Herewith an illustrated German-language page on the later medieval cathedral:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_zu_Halberstadt
Other views:
http://tinyurl.com/cl2a58n
The chevet:
http://www.transromanica.com/c_poi/127-2-hbs-dom2b.JPG
A brief video (perhaps better without the music):
http://tinyurl.com/btmnxo4
The statues in the choir (incl. Sixtus):
http://tinyurl.com/dyvpycu
Sculptures in, and other adornments of, the Lady Chapel:
http://tinyurl.com/cd9etnd
Expandable views of the early sixteenth-century Lettner are here:
http://tinyurl.com/curhpoa
Brief, German-language accounts of the originally later fifteenth-century St Sixti-Kirche in Northheim in Niedersachsen:
http://regiowiki.hna.de/St._Sixti-Kirche_in_Northeim
http://tinyurl.com/bwxdkne
A guided tour (in German; use the menu at left):
http://www.sixti-northeim.de/texte/seite.php?id=97081
Its roof bosses (ca. 1519):
http://www.sixti-northeim.de/texte/seite.php?id=97078
Further to Hathumar, Badurad, and Meinwerk:
In that earlier post's notice of these two saints and one Beatus, the third of the three links to views of Meinwerk's tomb slab no longer functions. But there's a good view of it early in this brief, German-language video of the exhibition of 2009 in Paderborn's diocesan museum, 'Für Königtum und Himmelreich. 1000 Jahre Bischof Meinwerk von Paderborn':
http://tinyurl.com/9ngpn6b
That video also has some very good views of the _Tragaltar_ of bishop Heinrich von Werl and of other treasures. Details of the exhibition catalog:
Christoph Stiegemann / Martin Kroker (Hgg.): _Für Königtum und Himmelreich. 1000 Jahre Bischof Meinwerk von Paderborn_ (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2009; 583 pp.); ISBN 978-3-7954-2152-6; EUR 44,90
In the same notice, the link to the illustrated, German-language page (expandable views) on Meinwerk no longer functions.
Two views of Meinwerk's sarcophagus in the diocesan museum in Paderborn (the cover is a replacement):
http://tinyurl.com/76tajng
http://www.archaeologie-online.de/uploads/pics/meinwerk1.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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