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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 15. November (including St. Felix of Nola the bishop; St. Maclovius; St. Sidonius of Normandy; Sts. Marinus and Anianus; St. Fintan of Rheinau; St. Albertus Magnus; Bll. Hugh Faringdon, John Rugge, and John Eynon; Bll. Richard Whiting, Roger James, and John Thorne):
http://tinyurl.com/a78ovr2
Further to Maclovius:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the fourth link to views of the église Saint-Maclou in Rouen no longer takes one there directly. To get to the page in question, use this instead (or not: the views there are not particularly good):
http://his.nicolas.free.fr/Monuments/Europe/France/Normandie/Rouen/RouenStMaclou/RouenStMaclou.php
In the same notice, the link to a satellite view of the same church in Rouen also no longer takes one directly to such a view. In the search box at upper right enter <Rouen Maclou> and when the view comes up look to the right of the cathedral.
In the same notice, the third link to a page on the église Saint-Malo at Dinan (Côtes-d'Armor) now takes one to a reported attack page.
Views of the originally twelfth-century église Saint-Maclou (facade is fifteenth-century) at Colombiers (Charente-Maritime):
http://chapiteaux.free.fr/TXT_Colombier.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/art_roman_p/sets/72157625088646611/
http://tinyurl.com/27j6zrx
http://tinyurl.com/c7xwp3h
http://tinyurl.com/2covjvo (http://tinyurl.com/2covjvo%C2%A0)
Further to Fintan of Rheinau:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a page with a view of Fintan as depicted in Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rh. 14 no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.zb.uzh.ch/ausstellungen/exponat/005927/
In the same notice, the link to the German-language page with a view of an early modern sketch showing Rheinau's abbey church of 1114 no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.dokstelle.rheinau.ch/pages/inselgeschichte/inselgeschichte.htm
Today (15. November) is also the feast day of:
Gourias and Samonas (d. early 4th cent.). Along with Abibus (entered under 2. Sep. in the revised RM of 2001) Gourias and Samonas are two of three saints referred to jointly since late antiquity as the confessors of Edessa ('confessor' being used in an early sense in which it is equivalent to 'martyr'). They are first attested in an entry under today in the later fourth-century Syriac Martyrology. As the aforesaid martyrology does not style them 'ancient' martyrs, its designation for those who suffered prior to the early fourth-century Great Persecution, one may accept the testimony of their originally fourth-century Syriac Passio (which comes to us in other-language translations and in later, re-worked versions in Syriac) that they were martyred in that persecution. On the other hand, the particular year given by the Passio (306/307) may derive from a later chronicle tradition whose accuracy in this instance cannot be determined. In their Passio Gourias is characterized as a recluse and Samonas as a lay preacher; Abibus, who is entered in the Syriac Martyrology under 2. September, has a separate Passio in which he is said to have been a deacon and to have been buried at the graves of Gourias and Samonas.
According to the sixth-century _Chronicle of Edessa_, after the edicts of toleration the Christians of that city built, in addition to a church for themselves, a martyrial chapel honoring Gourias, Samonas, and Abibus; this chapel, which was burned by the Persians in 530, is sometimes dated to ca. 350. Their joint cult there is reflected in a hymn by St. Ephraem the Syrian (d. 373) and in a joint feast on 15. November in various Syriac calendars (a few of which also record a celebration of Abibus on 2. September). 15. November is also the standard medieval and later feast day for all three in the Armenian, Georgian, and Greek churches, with the latter passing it on to the early medieval Latin church of Naples (assuming, as seems likely enough, that the Marble Calendar of Naples' _Samo[nae]_ of that day stands for all three) and to Orthodox churches of other countries. They are said to have been unknown in late antique and medieval Coptic Christianity.
Samonas (arch soffit at right; upper roundel) and Gourias (same soffit; below Samonas) as depicted in the mid- to later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/6ozfras
After the recent cleaning:
http://www.medievalsicily.com/Images/Palermo/cap-pal-1.jpg
Gourias (above) and Samonas (below) as depicted in the late twelfth-century frescoes of the church of the Panagia tou Arakou in Lagoudera (Nicosia prefecture) in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://tinyurl.com/3gddbno
Gourias and Samonas as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and ca. 1321/22) of the nave of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
Gourias:
http://tinyurl.com/88f5odn
http://tinyurl.com/87a52jd
Samonas (somewhat degraded):
http://tinyurl.com/7qvvmdu
Gourias as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century mosaics (betw. 1315 and 1321) in the exonarthex of the Chora church in Istanbul:
http://ocafs.oca.org/Icons/november/1115gurias.jpg
Samonas (at left) and Gourias (at right) as depicted in a somewhat degraded earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw. 1315 and 1321) in the parecclesion of the Chora church in Istanbul:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/razlan79/3175413495/
The martyrdom of Samonas and Gourias as depicted in a November calendar scene in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension at 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/6gcm933
Best,
John Dillon
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