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Herewith a link to an earlier (2011) 'Feasts and saints of the day' for 14. August (including St. Eusebius of Rome; St. Marcellus of Apamea; St. Fachtna of Ross; St. Arnulf of Soissons; Bl. Martyrs of Otranto):
http://tinyurl.com/csrkk4q
Further to the Martyrs of Otranto:
A revised set of views of the facade of Otranto's cathedral:
http://www.salentoviaggi.com/vedutacatotrantoimg.htm
http://tinyurl.com/8s8ow5x
Another view from above of the mosaic floor of the cathedral of Otranto:
http://tinyurl.com/8e9q3rz
A revised set of views of the crypt of Otranto's cathedral:
http://tinyurl.com/8hrqlv7
http://tinyurl.com/9crb8qc
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/71584247.jpg
Fresco of the BVM in the crypt, spared by the Turks in 1480/81:
http://www.enec.it/Cripte/Otranto/Madre.jpg
Capitals in the crypt:
http://tinyurl.com/cn3rcp3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spalluzza/3924126262/
http://tinyurl.com/cfomcrp
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2229/2422274855_bec5e2c203.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myhiddenplace/2747325758/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spalluzza/3923342987/
A revised set of views of Otranto's originally ninth-/tenth-century Greek church of San Pietro:
http://www.otrantopoint.com/la-chiesa-bizantina-di-san-pietro.html
http://www.comprensivotranto.it/secondario/otranto/san_pietro.htm
http://tinyurl.com/9g7g3z4
http://www.otrantosub.it/IT/documenti/56/62/pg145/P1010040.jpg
http://www.otranto.biz/foto-otranto/images/otranto-sanpietro-2.jpg
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/7793/p9030562rz6.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/9e73ucu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stijnnieuwendijk/6277555620/lightbox/
http://tinyurl.com/3oj4khm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spalluzza/3924135592/
Today (14. August) is also the feast day of:
Ursicinus of Sibentum (d. early 4th cent.?). This Ursicinus -- there are of course several saints of this name -- is known from a legendary Greek Passio (BHG 1861) that makes him a military tribune denounced under Maximian as a Christian from a place called Sibentum that seems to have been in Lower Pannonia and has him tried before an otherwise unattested Roman official named Aristides at an unnamed place that seems to have been the provincial capital Sirmium (now Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia). After resolutely refusing to abandon his faith he survived both a severe scourging and an attempt to burn him alive but then was slain by the sword. The execution was carried out by a man named Valens who informed against him and he was buried by a pious woman named Simplicia. Thus far his Passio, which being in Greek uses Greek forms of Latin personal names. Ursicinus' name is transmitted as Orsisinos. Some have rendered it as Ursicius.
Best,
John Dillon
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