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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 19. September (including Sts. Peleus, Nilus, Elias, Patermuthius, and companions; St. Januarius, venerated esp. at Naples; St. Sequanus; St. Theodore of Tarsus [Theodore of Canterbury]; St. Cyriac of Buonvicino):
http://tinyurl.com/9qpoj6o
Further to Januarius, ven. esp. at Naples:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the links to views of him as depicted in Naples' catacombs of San Gennaro no longer function. Use these instead for his fifth-century portrait (Januarius at center):
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1275/896212603_f710809d9a_z.jpg?zz=1
http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/SelenaK/Neapel/DSCF5345.jpg
Detail view (Januarius):
http://img.youtube.com/vi/F6IXec6IUCA/0.jpg
And this for Januarius (very probably) as depicted in Naples' catacombe di San Severo:
http://tinyurl.com/9yrfvuk
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/7rtalrd
In the same notice, the first of the two links to views of Januarius' putative bone relics in Naples' cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/8ar3a74
In the same notice, the link to the illustrated, Italian-language page on Januarius' early fourteenth-century silver-gilt head reliquary in Naples' cathedral is not working at the moment. Use these links to views of this object in an undressed state (the first of these is expandable):
http://www.atlantedellarteitaliana.it/artwork-4395.html
http://tinyurl.com/8ec5zok
http://www.museionline.it/uploads/bustoSanGennaro.jpg
In the same notice, the first of the two links in the TAN on the exhibit by the Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro no longer functions and the views at the other page are rather small. Some larger views are at:
http://tinyurl.com/8pzqf8y
http://tinyurl.com/9e9zumv
In the same notice, the first of the three links to 'Three views of the ampules themselves' no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/9oq9dtn
In the same notice, add this view of Januarius (at far right) as portrayed on Antonio Baboccio's early fifteenth-century tomb (1402) of cardinal Enrico Minutolo in the cappella Minutolo of Naples' cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3046554.jpg
The tomb as seen in its full height:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2w6ys81.jpg
The tomb's central panel of the Nativity:
http://tinyurl.com/42lpcut
Further to Cyriac of Buonvicino:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the site with the view of Cyriac's modern statue in his grotto at Buonvicino is off-line at the moment. By way of recompense, but still very TANgentially, herewith some views of Cyriac's modern monumental statue on a peak overlooking the town:
http://www.fabianostudio.altervista.org/progetti/buonvicino.jpg
http://www.fabianostudio.altervista.org/progetti/statua.jpg
http://www.fxguidry.com/italy2003/Calabria/39.jpg
http://www.fxguidry.com/italy2003/Calabria/40.jpg
Today (19. September) is also the feast day of:
Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon (?; ?; d. 2d or 3d cent.). Orthodox and other Eastern-rite churches celebrate today these three martyrs, of whom Dorymedon is attested under 20. September in the later fourth-century Syriac Martyrology and, since its revision of 2001, has also been entered in the RM under that date. He will be dealt with in tomorrow's 'Feasts and saints of the day'. Trophimus and Sabbatius are known from a legendary and synthesizing Passio that exists in several versions (BHG 1853-1855). In these accounts they are court officials tortured and put to death at Synnada in Phrygia (today's Şuhut in Turkey) during a persecution under the emperor Probus and who have as a companion in martyrdom the senator Dorymedon who visits them in prison. That the persecution in question ever took place is doubtful. In their iconography Trophimus and Sabbatius are sometimes treated as military martyrs. Prior to 2001 all three were commemorated jointly under this date in the RM; the latter now commemorates Trophimus alone under today (and appears to have dispensed altogether with Sabbatius).
The martyrdom of Trophimus and Dorymedon (at left; at right, Sabbatius undergoing torture) as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. gr. 1613, p. 49):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Menologion_of_Basil_044.jpg
The martyrdom of Sabbatius, Trophimus, and Dorymedon (shown with an unnamed female saint) as depicted in a September calendar scene in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the narthex in church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/38sr3ts
Trophimus (misidentified inscriptionally as Prophimus) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the nave in the aforementioned church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć:
http://tinyurl.com/dxmxx6v
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/cyygj5z
Best,
John Dillon
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