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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 7. September (including St. Paragorius and his companions Sts. Parthaeus, Parthenopaeus, and Severinus; Sts. Festus and Desiderius; St. Evurtius; St. Pamphilus of Capua; St. Gratus of Aosta; St. John of Lodi):
http://tinyurl.com/bo27xgt
Further to Paragorius and his companions.
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the final link in the set of exterior views of Noli's chiesa di San Paragorio no longer functions. Instead, have a look at this well-illustrated Italian-language page, most of whose views of this church are of the exterior:
http://uranialigustica.altervista.org/edifici/schede/sv_s-paragorio.htm
Further to Evurtius:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the links to a minimally illustrated page with brief history of Orléans' église Saint-Euverte and to an old-postcard view of that church (both showing the facade's now covered rose window) no longer function. For the former, use this link instead:
http://tinyurl.com/9lj2a2q
And for the latter, use this.
http://tinyurl.com/8mjq554
An even earlier view, from an earlier nineteenth-century engraving showing the church within the city's outer defenses:
http://tinyurl.com/8h8vbew
In the same notice, add to the more recent views of this church the four on this blog page:
http://orleans.canalblog.com/archives/p150-20.html
Two French-language accounts of the originally later twelfth- and thirteenth-century église Saint-Euverte in Villeherviers (Loir-et-Cher):
http://www.villeherviers.com/l-eglise_saint_euverte.html
http://tinyurl.com/8rmk2nj [Use the diaporama at upper left for an expandable view of the interior.]
Two views of this church's exterior:
http://tinyurl.com/9dx5lnz
http://tinyurl.com/8btjrrw
An illustrated French-language page on this church's recent restoration (2010-2011), with interior views showing painting in the vaults:
http://tinyurl.com/8hznm8p
Several expandable views of this church (including two better views of the restored painting in the vaults) will be found on this page in the database Mistral:
http://tinyurl.com/8crurtk
Further to John of Lodi:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of the room at Fonte Avellana now named for him no longer functions. Use this instead;
http://tinyurl.com/d7gmuna
Today (7. September) is also the feast day of:
Sozon of Cilicia (?). For this Sozon (as opposed to Sozon of Cyprus, also a martyr) we have a brief pre-metaphrastic Passio (BHG 1643) and its metaphrastic expansion (BHG 1644), as well as some briefer synaxary accounts that differ from the Passiones in manner of his execution. According to this at least largely legendary tradition he suffered under an historically unattested governor of Cilicia named Maximianus or Maximus, the persecutor in the likewise legendary Passiones of the also Cilician martyrs Calliopius, Doulas, and Tarachus, Probus, and Andronicus. None of these texts specifies, either by an emperor's name or by some other ready indication, a greater persecution in which this Cilician one will have taken place.
According to his Passiones Sozon (whose name means "Savior" and who is also known as Sozontius and as Sostis or Sostes) was a devoutly Christian shepherd. Having received a vision foretelling his martyrdom, he went to nearby Pompeiopolis in Cilicia, entered a temple at which festivities were soon to take place, broke off a hand from its golden cult statue, sold this object and used the proceeds to benefit the poor. Sozon's guilt was not immediately discovered but when others were falsely accused he came forward and confessed his deed. After his trial, Sozon was taken to the amphitheater, was forced to walk there with nails driven through the soles of his shoes, observed bravely to his persecutor that his shoes were a finer red than that worthy's cloak, and then was executed by fire. According to the synaxary accounts, after the torment of the nailed shoes Sozon was strung up on a tree and beaten to death.
Sozon's feast today is recorded in the early (pre-Byzantine) liturgical calendar from Palestine preserved in a Georgian-language version in the tenth-century _Codex sinaiticus_ 34. It is widely entered, also under this day, in Byzantine synaxaries. In most places that celebrate him today this is also his feast day, though at the Agios Sostis on Sifnos and at the one on Tinos his feast occurs on 6. September. In southern Italy Sozon is the eponym of today's San Sosti (CS) in Calabria, whose originally early medieval abbey of Aghios Sostis (the Greek form reported as occurring in eleventh- and twelfth-century charters), later San Sozonte and now a ruin, is thought on the basis of recent archeological investigation to have been founded by monks from Tinos.
Sozon's martyrdom (grayscale view) as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613):
http://tinyurl.com/d64pe4n
Sozon as depicted (at left; at right, St. Gerontius) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the north-east little dome of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/3bsslyn
Sozon as depicted (at left; at right, St. Hippolytus, bp. of Rome) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the south-east little dome of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/3jnm2as
Sozon as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the nave in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/3uyo5xc
Sozon (upper roundel) as depicted in a mid-fourteenth-century fresco in the church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/2cptmk8
Sozon as depicted in a later fourteenth-century fresco (1359/1360) in the church of the Taxiarches of the Metropolis in Kastoria (Kastoria prefecture) in northwestern Greece:
http://tinyurl.com/3geo7lm
Best,
John Dillon
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