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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 29. November (including Sts. Demetrius and Blasius; St. Saturninus of Carthage; St. Saturninus of Toulouse; St. Illuminata; St. Radbod of Utrecht):
http://tinyurl.com/crthk5f
Further to Saturninus of Toulouse:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the third link to views of the chevet of the basilique Saint-Sernin in Toulouse no longer functions.
In the same notice, the first of the three links to 'Other views' of the église Saint-Sernin (Saint-Saturnin) at Brassempouy (Landes) no longer functions.
In the same notice, the link to 'More views' of the originally thirteenth-century iglesia de San Saturnino at Santana de la Peña (Palencia) no longer takes one there directly. Use this instead (the views of this church start at the end of the fourth row from the bottom):
http://www.fotopaises.com/categoria/A-Z/2035/2035_4_2.html
In the same notice, the sixth (and last) link to views of the originally late thirteenth-century iglesia de San Saturnino in the former French third of Pamplona (Navarra) no longer functions.
In the same notice, the sixth (and last) link to views of the originally fifteenth-century église collégiale Saint-Sernin at Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance (Aveyron) no longer functions.
Further to Illuminata:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the second link to the illustrated, Italian-langiage pages on the chiesa di Sant'Illuminata in Colarrezzo, a locality of Massa Martana (PG), no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.paesaggi.regioneumbria.eu/default.aspx?IDCont=200026
A better view of this church (restored since the previous 'Another view' was taken):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica81/4306947567/
In the same notice, the link to the view of the painting in Montefalco's Museo comunale di San Francesco no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/cqu9se6
Illuminata as depicted in a fourteenth-century fresco on an arch soffit in the chiesa di San Salvatore in Canzano (TE) in northern Abruzzo:
http://tinyurl.com/d6mb8fz
That painting as situated in the church (Illuminata at left; at right, St. Catherine of Alexandria):
http://tinyurl.com/c59549h
Further to Radbod of Utrecht:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a heavily illustrated, Dutch-language page on the Lebuinuskerk (Grote Kerk) in Deventer no longer functions. Use this link to an English-language page instead:
http://www.archimon.nl/overijssel/deventerlebuinus.html
In the same notice, the page on the Broerenkerk in Zwolle (Ov) has moved to this address:
http://www.archimon.nl/overijssel/zwollebroerenkerk.html
Today (29. November) is also the feast day of:
1) Paramon and companions (d. 250 or 251, supposedly). Our only documentation for Paramon and his 370 companions is a synaxary notice, seemingly based on a now lost legendary Passio, that presents them as having been victims of a roundup in Bisaltia (a part of Thrace) and that places their suffering in the Decian persecution at the hands of an official named Acylinus. Neither of those latter details is reliable. In different versions of legendary Passiones the same suffering is often now ascribed to the Decian persecution and now to the Diocletianic one. A persecuting official named Acylinus or Aquilinus occurs, at various locales and with various ranks given for him, in Passiones of both of those persecutions.
The aforesaid synaxary notice occurs in some mss. of the SynCP under 27. November (this is where it will be found in Delehaye's edition) and in others under 29. November. By the later Middle Ages the feast was widely kept on 29. November and had become associated with that of St. Philumenus (see below), as it still is in Orthodox and other 'eastern'-rite churches.
Paramon and companions entered the RM under cardinal Baronio and left it in the revision of 2001.
Paramon (at right; at left, a St. Zenobius) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the altar area of the church of St. George in Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/servia/146.jpg
A link to an earlier fourteenth-century depiction of Paramon and companions will be found in the following notice.
2) Philumenus (d. in the years 270-275, supposedly). Our narrative source for Philumenus (also Philomenus; in Greek, Philoumenos) is a Greek synaxary notice seemingly based on a now lost Passio. This makes him a Lycaonian who furnished bread to towns in Galatia and who, having confessed Christianity under emperor Aurelian (whose persecution seems at least very largely a hagiographic fiction, albeit a commonly occurring one), was fatally tortured at Ancyra (now Ankara) in various ways.
From at least the later Middle Ages onward 'eastern'-rite churches have commemorated Philumenus jointly with St. Paramon and companions (see above). In editing the early RM cardinal Baronio gave each a separate notice under today. Unlike Paramon and companions, Philumenus still graces the pages of the RM.
Philumenus (at right) as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. gr. 1613):
http://tinyurl.com/blr33az
Philumenus, Paramon, and companions as depicted in a November calendar scene in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the church of the Holy Ascension in 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/7npgjcq
Best,
John Dillon
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