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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 24. November (including St. Chrysogonus; St. Firmina of Amelia; St. Romanus of Blaye; Sts. Flora and Maria, martyrs of Córdoba; St. Albert of Louvain; Bl. Balsamus of Cava):
http://tinyurl.com/b9nr26f
Further to Chrysogonus:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, in the last sentence of the second paragraph for 'chapel of Sant'Andrea' please read 'Cappella Arcivescovile (a.k.a. Capella di Sant'Andrea)'. Add this view of Chrysogonus as depicted in the very late fifth- or early sixth-century mosaics of the Cappella Arcivescovile in Ravenna:
http://tinyurl.com/bt6dn65
In the same notice, the link to the Italian-language page on the chiesa di San Proto in San Canzian d'Isonzo (GO) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/cnh3zpr
A larger view showing some surviving older fabric:
http://tinyurl.com/c29on7y
An illustrated, Italian-language page focusing on the same church's late antique past:
http://siticar.units.it/div/scheda.faces?id=8
A view of this church's sarcophagus of Chrysogonus:
http://siticar.units.it/div/uploads/web/web_64_grande.jpg
In the same notice, the first two links to interior views of Rome's chiesa di San Crisogono in Trastevere no longer function. Use these instead:
http://tinyurl.com/c69r6v2
http://tinyurl.com/cnktg3m
Add this expandable view of Chrysogonus (at left; at right, St. James) as depicted in the thirteenth-century apse mosaic preserved from San Crisogono in Trastevere's twelfth-century predecessor:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/7307790936/
In the same notice, the link to the ground plans of the late antique and early modern churches at San Crisogono in Trastevere also no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/cehw5a3
In the same notice, still in the matter on San Crisogono in Trastevere, the link to views of the late antique church (one of Rome's early _tituli_) is unstable. Use this instead and continue by using the visual menu at right:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42858885@N00/5175182957/in/photostream/
(The earlier set of views is also accessible here: <http://tinyurl.com/ago5muz>. The first image there is broken.)
In the same notice, the final link to the views of Zadar's crkva Sv. Krševana (consecrated in 1175) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/coasluw
In the same notice, the link to the Croatian-language page with further views of this church no longer takes one there directly. Use this instead:
http://www.tzzadar.hr/hr/dogadanja/01-10-2012/blagdan-sv-krsevana
In the same notice, still in the matter on Zadar, add to the two (detail) views of Chrysogonus' reliquary chest of 1326 this distance view of that object, _ordinarily_ housed in the cathedral (it's now in Paris for the exhibition ' « Et ils s’émerveillèrent... » Croatie médiévale' currently ([10 Oct. 2012 - 7. Jan. 2013] on display in the Musée national du Moyen Âge [a.k.a. musée de Cluny]):
http://tinyurl.com/aarguvy
Add these links to views of Chrysogonus as portrayed on reliefs of, respectively, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and sixteenth centuries preserved in the Department of Zadar City Museum:
http://tinyurl.com/a6bndyt
http://tinyurl.com/alva3yh
http://tinyurl.com/b3n8wyf
Add this link to a view of Chrysogonus (lower right) dressed as a man of learning (legendarily, he was Anastasia's teacher) on Gabriel Angler's earlier fifteenth-century (ca. 1440) Calvary sculpture from Tegernsee, now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Chrysogonus.jpg
Further to Balsamus of Cava:
In the lemma to that earlier post's notice of this Beatus, for 'Balsam' please read 'Balsamus'.
Today (24. November) is also the feast day of:
Hermogenes of Agrigento (?):
Under today's date the SynCP has a brief, uninformative commemoration of Macarius and Hermogenes, bishops of Akragas (today's Agrigento in southwestern Sicily). Hermogenes also appears under this day in Greek menaia, where he is said to have died peacefully. Modern conjectures as to his dates have varied from the third century to the ninth. Formerly celebrated on this day in Agrigento, where -- unlike Macarius -- he is considered a saint of the diocese, Hermogenes seems now to be one of the many local saints of Sicily commemorated by Roman Catholics in that ecclesiastical region on 5. November under the rubric of All the Saints of the Churches of Sicily. Numerous Orthodox churches commemorate him today, sometimes as a martyr, sometimes not. Hermogenes of Agrigento has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
In the absence of better candidates (there seems to have been a paucity of medievally venerated bishop-saints of this name), the following two depictions of a saint Hermogenes in episcopal attire may plausibly be assigned to today's saint:
a) Hermogenes (at left; at right, St. Epimachus [of Pelusium?]) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in a little dome in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/78lbqlc
b) Hermogenes as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3jkckgd
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/3ewxbfs
Best,
John Dillon
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