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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 19. October (including Sts. Ptolemy and Lucius; St. Asterius of Ostia; Sts. Savinian and Potentian; St. Asterius of Salerno; St. Veranus of Cavaillon; Sts. Justus, Flavianus, and companions; St. Frideswide):
http://tinyurl.com/8e63xyl
Further to Savinian and Potentian:
In the ninth century the abbey of the BVM at today's Jouarre (Seine-et-Marne) acquired putative relics of St. Potentian; his cult there became the focus of pilgrimages. Herewith an expandable view of P.'s thirteenth-century shrine in the present église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Jouarre:
http://www.bildindex.de/obj20880709.html#|home
An illustrated, English-language page on the abbey of Jouarre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouarre_Abbey
Further views (including some of the abbey church's early medieval crypt) will be found on this page of the abbey's website:
http://tinyurl.com/9j2s6ps
A revised set of links to views of the originally eleventh-century basilique Saint-Savinien in Sens:
http://tinyurl.com/9g2j3aq
http://tinyurl.com/8jb4as5
http://tinyurl.com/9dylvuc
This church houses in its crypt a modern reliquary containing what is said to be part of Savinian's skull. Two views of that are here:
http://agendicum.over-blog.com/21-index.html
Some pages on the seemingly originally twelfth-century collégiale Saint-Potentien in Châtel-Censoir (Yonne; parts of the crypt may be older):
http://tinyurl.com/8g2c6x9
http://tinyurl.com/9qxqhep
Better views are here:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/termf2/home/photo/@/page:2:9?view=1
and here:
http://tinyurl.com/96scrob
A bit of the crypt can be seen at the end of this brief video:
http://tinyurl.com/9km667f
A relic said to be of P., set in this church's main altar:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41583834@N03/6349454909/
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the first link to views, etc. of the Savinian, Potentian, and Modesta window in Chartres' cathédrale Notre-Dame no longer takes one there directly. Use these instead:
http://tinyurl.com/8opc9kj
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/chartres/17_Pages/Chartres_Bay17_key.htm
A distance view of the thirteenth-century glass windows in the chapelle Saint-Savinien in Sens' métropole Saint-Étienne:
http://tinyurl.com/9esvapx
Detail (the martyrdom of Savinian):
http://tinyurl.com/8vl3m2u
Detail (the beating of Potentian and his companions):
http://cem.revues.org/docannexe/image/11639/img-1.jpg
Further to Veranus of Cavaillon:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, in the fifth paragraph please delete my comment about not finding views of the crypt of the église Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Véran at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse and add to the links to views of that church this one to a page of views including two of the crypt and one of the late antique sarcophagus said to be V.'s (whence in 1311 his putative relics were translated to Cavaillon):
http://tinyurl.com/922plqx
In the same post, the link to a view of V. as depicted in the Mary Magdalen retable (ca. 1550) in the Musée de Contes at Contes (Alpes-Maritimes) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.amis-musee-contes.fr/admin/uploads/objet90.jpg
Further to Justus, Flavianus, and companions:
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the link to the illustrated, Italian-language account of the cattedrale di San Giusto in Susa no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.cittadisusa.it/ComSchedaTem.asp?Id=1700
Further to Frideswide:
A revised set of links to views, etc. of the originally twelfth- to fifteenth-century St Frideswide's Church in Frilsham (Berks):
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/churches/frilsham.html
http://tinyurl.com/8snayuh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/churchcrawler/152721680/
Frideswide as depicted in a sixteenth-century glass fragment re-set in a window of Balliol College Chapel, Oxford (photograph by Gordon Plumb):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5901085653/
Today (19. October) is also the feast day of:
John of Rila (d. ca. 946). Bulgaria's pre-eminent national saint, John of Rila (in Bulgarian, Ioan Rilski) is known through a _Testament_ of disputed authenticity and from later medieval accounts drawing in part upon inherited tradition. His fourteenth-century Life by patriarch St. Euthymius of Tarnovo presents him as having been monastically trained in the vicinity of his birthplace at today's Skrino before he became an hermit in Bulgaria's Rila mountains. The community that is said to have gathered around him there became in time the great monastery of St. John of Rila. In Orthodox churches he is celebrated both today (the day of a translation of his putative relics) and on 18. August (his traditional _dies natalis_). John has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
John of Rila as depicted in the fourteenth-century frescoes of the monastery of St. John the Theologian (Sv. Ioan Bogoslov) at Zemen in western Bulgaria:
http://tinyurl.com/39emn6p
John of Rila (at left; at right, St. Joachim of Osogovo) as depicted in the late fifteenth-century frescoes of the Poganovo monastery in Dimitrovgrad (Pirot dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/8k94xxc
Best,
John Dillon
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