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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 23. October (including St. Severinus of Köln; St. Severinus Boethius; St. Romanus of Rouen; St. Ignatius of Constantinople; St. Allucio; Bl. John the Good of Mantua; St. John of Capestrano):
http://tinyurl.com/8bannmk
Further to Severinus of Köln:
A revised notice of this saint:
Severinus of Köln (d. later 4th cent.). S. is traditionally the third bishop of Köln. St. Gregory of Tours reports, probably from oral tradition, both that he was a _vir honestae vitae et per cuncta laudabilis_ and that at the moment of St. Martin's death he heard singing from a heavenly choir (_De virtutibus Martini_, 1. 4). S.'s ninth- or tenth-century Vita (BHL 7647, 7648) conflates him with St. Severinus of Bordeaux and makes him a native of Aquitaine who was a foe of heresy and who died on a visit to Bordeaux. Still according to the Vita, for a long time S.'s cult was not observed in Köln. After a request for his return and a dispute between the people of the two cities over their saint, half of his body was returned to Köln, where it was laid to rest in a church he had founded in honor of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian. Thus far the Vita.
From the tenth century onward, S. enjoyed an active cult in the regions of the Rhine and the Meuse. An early witness thereto is his cloth-lined, wooden reliquary chest from ca. 948 that has survived in Köln's Basilika St. Severin, the successor to the aforementioned church of Cornelius and Cyprian (these latter remain as the St. Severin's co-patrons). Herewith a few illustrated, German-language pages on this object:
http://tinyurl.com/8wvfpsa
http://tinyurl.com/83ku76e
http://tinyurl.com/86kvs9z
A brief, English-language account and an illustrated, German-language one of Köln's mostly eleventh- to early sixteenth-century Basilika St. Severin, built over what had been a Roman and then a Frankish cemetery:
http://tinyurl.com/22s77zp
http://tinyurl.com/9o22myp
An illustrated, German-language site on this church (use menu at left to access subordinate pages):
http://www.romanische-kirchen-koeln.de/128.html
Further views (exterior):
http://tinyurl.com/236f7ea
http://tinyurl.com/2fr8wv6
http://tinyurl.com/56odp4
http://tinyurl.com/2bfbb6y
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24141292@N02/3262759328
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/3261932099_a46726e40d_b.jpg
Further views (interior):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3261931125/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3261926509/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3261930387/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3261927165/
Crucifixion window (early sixteenth-century):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3261928849/
S. as depicted on a later eleventh-century enameled medallion thought to have come from his golden shrine in Köln's St. Severin (this was melted down in the late eighteenth century) and now in that church's treasury:
http://www.romanische-kirchen-koeln.de/index.php?id=715
An illustrated, English-language page on the Sts. Severinus and Anno window (ca. 1330) in Köln's cathedral:
http://www.koelner-dom.de/index.php?id=17433&L=1
S. as portrayed in one of the early fifteenth-century statues over the west portal of St. Severin in Köln:
http://tinyurl.com/2ch64lr
An illustrated, German-language page on the originally earlier thirteenth-century Kirche St. Severin at Keitum, an _Ortsteil_ of Sylt (Lkr. Nordfriesland; the tower is from ca. 1450):
http://de.academic.ru/dic.nsf/dewiki/1318082
Views of the mostly mid-thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Kirche St. Severinus at Erpel (Lkr. Neuwied) in Rheinland-Pfalz (the tower is from a predecessor):
http://www.tc-erpel.de/images/bilder/Kirche.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/69fkl6
http://tinyurl.com/6cqyez
Further to Romanus of Rouen:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the first link to the pages on Rouen cathedral's sixteenth-century windows honoring R. no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.rouen-histoire.com/Vitraux/Transept_S/ST_Romain1.htm
Further to Ignatius of Constantinople:
A better view of I.'s later ninth- or early tenth-century mosaic portrait in Hagia Sophia:
http://tinyurl.com/98wq45y
Further to John of Capestrano:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the two links to 'More views' of the chiesa di San Pietro ad Oratorium no longer function. Use these instead (and it is no longer necessary to left-click):
http://tinyurl.com/8tnfeza
http://tinyurl.com/9ls9558
23. October is also the feast day of:
James the Just (d. 62?). This J. is the martyred bishop of Jerusalem also called James, Brother of God / Brother of the Lord (cf. esp. Eusebius, _Historia ecclesiastica_, 2. 1. 2 and 2. 23. 1-25) whom Eastern-rite churches, following some early Christians -- most notably St. Hegesippus --, decline to identify with James the son of Alphaeus. Western-rite churches, following St. Jerome, usually consider James the Just and James the son of Alphaeus to be one and the same and celebrate him in early May as James the Less(er). In the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology James, Brother of the Lord is entered under 25. April. Orthodox and other eastern-rite churches instead celebrate James, Brother of God (or of Christ / of Jesus) chiefly in the fall (usually on 23. October but on 9. October in the Maronite church).
Herewith a few visuals for James, Brother of God:
J. as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century frescoes (restored betw. 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://album-photo.geo.fr/ap/album/22413/?pos=50
J. as depicted in the late thirteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1295) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv. Climent Novi) in Ohrid:
http://tinyurl.com/3ce3hly
http://tinyurl.com/5vknw7p
J. as depicted in the late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century frescoes attributed to Manuel Panselinos in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/ykkjer4
J. as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1308 and ca. 1320) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. Nicetas the Goth (Sv. Nikita) at Èuèer in today's Èuèer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3n44lox
J. (at right; at left, St. Symeon of Jerusalem) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/3v2ytra
http://tinyurl.com/3kcl74c
J. as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the parecclesion of St. Nicholas in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Graèanica 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/yfvbanv
J. as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1313 and ca. 1320) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the nave of the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) at the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Ra¹ka district) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/28hez3r
http://tinyurl.com/2alvgpg
J. (center roundel; red ground) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) on the triumphal arch of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peæ at Peæ in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/37eyqyg
J. as depicted in an October calendar portrait in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Deèani monastery near Peæ in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/yc5uxgq
J. as depicted in two early sixteenth-century frescoes (1502) by Dionisy and sons in the Virgin Nativity cathedral of the St. Ferapont Belozero (Ferapontov Belozersky) monastery at Ferapontovo in Russia's Vologda oblast:
a) http://www.dionisy.com/img/228/frag_lg.jpg
b) http://www.dionisy.com/eng/museum/116/235/index.shtml
J. as depicted in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545-1546) by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/294odxh
Best,
John Dillon
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