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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 20. October (including St. Cornelius the Centurion; St. Caprasius of Agen; St. Leopardus of Osimo; St. Sindulf of Aussonce; St. Vitalis of Salzburg; St. Andrew of Crete, martyr [or Andrew 'in Crisi']; St. Aderaldus; St. Adelina of Mortain).
http://tinyurl.com/9uyvh3q
Further to Caprasius of Agen:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the final link to views of the église Saint-Caprais at Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux (Gironde) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:St_Caprais_Eglise_2.JPG
Further to Leopardus of Osimo:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the first and third links to views of the early medieval silver plaque depicting him now on display in Osimo's Museo diocesano no longer function. In this set of views, the plaque (inside an ornamental frame from the eighteenth century) may be seen from the rear in the first view at left and, two views later, from the front (and slightly closer up). A slightly larger version of that view from the front is here:
http://www.duomodiosimo.it/museo_diocesano/le%20opere/s01-lamina.htm
In the same notice, the link to the polyptych of 1418 by Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano depicting Leopardus at lower left no longer functions. Use this instead both for a distance view of the entire altarpiece and for a closer view of the lower register (with Leopardus at far left):
http://www.duomodiosimo.it/museo_diocesano/le%20opere/s02-montepulciano.htm
Further to Sindulf of Aussonce:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the final link no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/8woodxg
A revised notice of Andrew of Crete, martyr (or Andrew 'in Crisi'):
Andrew of Crete, martyr (d. 767, supposedly). According to what used to be thought of as his closely posthumous Bios (BHG 111), this A. (also A. 'in Crisi' and A. the Calybite; not to be confused with the slightly earlier confessor A. of Crete) was a native of Crete who lived very ascetically as a stylite until the year 767, when he traveled to Constantinople and there reproved the emperor (Constantine V) for his persecution of iconophiles. That worthy, who is said to have been unable to match A. in theological learning, promptly consigned his opponent to the mercies of an iconoclast mob that first cut off the saint's right foot and then lynched him. A.'s body was thrown into a common grave but sympathizers coming by night were able miraculously to recognize it among all the others (was the trench so full of fresh male corpses lacking a right foot that it required a miracle correctly to identify A.'s body?) and gave it honorable burial in a part of the city called the Crisis (i.e. 'the Judgment'). Thus far the Bios.
Dirk Krausmüller, "The Identity, the Cult, and the Hagiographical Dossier of Andrew 'in Crisi'", _Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici_, n. s. 43 (2006; distributed in 2008), 57-86, proposes a rather different take on A. In that article Krausmüller argues convincingly that everything that's said about this Andrew in his hagiography is a fiction supporting a cult that was created in the monastery in Crisis not long after the Triumph of Orthodoxy (843). A Constantinopolitan martyr of Byzantine First Iconoclasm named Andrew had earlier been celebrated on 20. October (Krausmüller identifies him with Andrew of Blachernae, beaten to death in 761-762) along with others named Stephen, Paul, and Peter. In Krausmüller's view, by the middle of the ninth century their cult had fallen into desuetude and the monastery then replaced it with this one centered on its possession of a newly produced wonder-working body said to be that of the previously undocumented martyr Andrew of Crete.
A.'s burial church was an already existing one of St. Andrew the Apostle. The monastery attached to it is recorded from 792 onward as one for women. The original titular was venerated elsewhere in the city (notably at the church of the Holy Apostles) and in fairly short order our A. became the recognized saint of this church. The latter was rebuilt by Basil I (867-886); it was rebuilt again in around 1284. In 1348 or 1349 the traveler Stephen of Novgorod visited this church and kissed A.'s body. Between 1486 and 1491 A.'s church was converted into a mosque. Re-oriented to face southeast and re-decorated within, it is now known as Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque (also as the Sünbül Efendi Camii). Here's a view of it from an engraving published in 1877:
http://tinyurl.com/ylamxnb
More recent views (the first from the northeast):
http://tinyurl.com/yfnxw3e
http://tinyurl.com/9f5vkod
http://tinyurl.com/2ahhumn
http://romeartlover.tripod.com/Istanba4.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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