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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 1. November (including All Saints; St. Caesarius of Terracina; St. Benignus of Dijon; St. Austremonius; St. Vigor):
http://tinyurl.com/ch5dohl
Further to All Saints:
An illustrated, German-language page on Kloster Allerheiligen in the Swiss cantonal capital of Schaffhausen, with views of its originally late eleventh-century church, now Schaffhausen's Evangelisch-reformierte Pfarrkirche Allerheiligen:
http://tinyurl.com/asr67bk
An earlier seventeenth-century depiction of the abbey (with the abbey church at lower left):
http://tinyurl.com/behf7ol
A revised set of links to views of the chiesa dei Ognissanti in Trani (BT):
http://tinyurl.com/clgl5x2
http://tinyurl.com/ykpd8bm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingendiartifex/240672886/sizes/z/
http://tinyurl.com/c9nyh4b
NB: Those exterior apse views were taken from the harbor, looking across the Via Statuti Marittimi. The entrance to this church, on the Via Ognissanti, is neoclassical.
The All Saints illumination in a later fourteenth-century (ca. 1370) Roman Missal of north Italian origin (Avignon, Bibliothèque-Médiathèque Municipale Ceccano, ms. 136, fol. 279r):
http://tinyurl.com/6edcqwo
The All Saints illumination in a late fourteenth-century (1394) missal from Autun for the Use of Beaune (Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 110, fol. 387r):
http://tinyurl.com/43bos4l
The All Saints illumination in an early fifteenth-century missal for the Use of Tours (Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 185, fol. 251r):
http://tinyurl.com/3jrkjng
The All Saints illumination in the early fifteenth-century _Belles Heures_ of Jean de France, duc de Berry (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, ms. 1954 (54.1.1), fol. 218r):
http://tinyurl.com/69uqxxo
The All Saints illumination in a mid-fifteenth-century missal for the Use of Nantes (Le Mans, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 223, fol. 201r):
http://tinyurl.com/3f3gr8n
Further to Caesarius of Terracina:
For an expandable view of Caesarius as depicted in the later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, go to <http://squinchpix.com/dictionary.html>, type in <Cesarius> (without the brackets; note the spelling), and hit FIND.
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to the English-language account of his church (the basilica di San Cesario) in San Cesario sul Panaro (MO) no longer functions.
The page at Italia nell'Arte Medievale on the aforesaid church:
http://tinyurl.com/d8nmmun
Further to Benignus of Dijon:
In 2010 christopher crockett added an informative post on the cathedral of Dijon's since destroyed eleventh-century rotunda:
http://tinyurl.com/bvgh7yq
In that post, the first link (to a page at wikipedia.de) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/cet6lwr
Benignus in prison and Benignus baptizing St. Symphorianus of Autun as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1335) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080, fols. 202v, 203v):
http://tinyurl.com/c3vpf3k
http://tinyurl.com/d8ev3eq
Benignus (second from left) and Benignus' martyrdom (far right) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. 51, fol. 36v):
http://tinyurl.com/bpqnqux
Further to Vigor:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the second link to views of the église Saint-Vigor at Quettehou (Manche) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.valdesaire.net/?id=picasa-5556523094760381137
In the same notice, the third link to English-language accounts of the Church of St Vigor at Fulbourn (Cambs) no longer functions.
Today (1. November) is also the feast day of:
Audomarus (d. ca. 670?). We know about this saint (in French and English usually Omer; in both languages also Audomar) chiefly from his early ninth-century Vita (BHL 763). This makes him a native of an Aurea Vallis said to be near Constantia (some have thought Konstanz, but Coutances seems a better bet) who became a monk of Luxeuil under its abbot St. Eustasius (r. ca. 612-629), who in the reign of king Dagobert (Dagobert I, r. in Austrasia 623-634) after consecration by St. Acharius of Noyon served, not without miracles and with his seat at Thérouanne, as a missionary bishop and _de facto_ evangelist in what is now the Pas-de-Calais.
Aided by three monks who had come from his native region, Sts. Mummolinus, Ebertramnus, and Bertinus, Audomarus also oversaw the foundation in his diocese of a monastic community on an estate called Sithiu (the abbey, dedicated to St. Peter, was later called Saint-Bertin; its town, Saint-Omer, is named for Audomarus). Late in life Audomarus lost his eyesight but carried on as before. He was buried with great honor in the monastery church at Sithiu where Bertinus was abbot. Post-mortem miracles confirmed his sanctity. Thus far Audomarus' Vita, which appears to have been written for the abbey of Saint-Bertin.
A French-language page on Audomarus with views of illuminations in an eleventh-century copy of his Vita (Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque de l'agglomération de Saint-Omer, ms. 698):
http://saintomer.pagesperso-orange.fr/personnages/omer.htm
Larger views of some of these and other depictions of Audomarus are here:
http://tinyurl.com/25xyfd9
Audomarus as depicted in an earlier twelfth-century _Vitae sanctorum_ (Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 642, fol. 65v):
http://tinyurl.com/2fhc4bg
Audomarus as depicted in a later twelfth-century sacramentary for the Use of Saint-Bertin (Bourges, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 37, fol. 68r):
http://tinyurl.com/2ep6fc3
Audomarus as depicted in an early fifteenth-century breviary for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 335v):
http://tinyurl.com/22l8qrn
The originally twelfth-century collégiale Saint-Omer (the belltower is nineteenth-century) at Lillers (Pas-de-Calais):
Exterior:
http://tinyurl.com/2f334f3
http://tinyurl.com/2e8fafd
http://rm.bacquaert.free.fr/imagebrowser/ib_p006_0_1.jpg
Interior:
http://tinyurl.com/34apdf7
Multiple:
http://rm.bacquaert.free.fr/eglise_de_lillers.html
Audomarus' thirteenth-century cenotaph in the originally late twelfth- to sixteenth-century (ex-)cathédrale Notre-Dame in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), now a parish church of the diocese of Arras:
http://tinyurl.com/33kbhe9
http://saintomer.pagesperso-orange.fr/monuments/cathedrale05.htm
A French-language site and another French-language page on this church:
http://www.cathedrale-saint-omer.org/index.php
http://tinyurl.com/25t8m56
Other views:
http://www.kamaxx.com/jdlf/img/photos/3243_1.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2eavy9a
http://tinyurl.com/28hzqx6
http://tinyurl.com/2ad3ddn
http://tinyurl.com/28bvmob
http://tinyurl.com/23z4zfh
http://tinyurl.com/2d6byqz
http://tinyurl.com/26jvvxk
Best,
John Dillon
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