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On 11/29/12, I wrote:
> Today (29. November) is also the feast day of:
>
> 1) Paramon and companions (d. 250 or 251, supposedly)...
> 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 Nagorièane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
> http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/servia/146.jpg
My bad (the result of hasty copying from an earlier notice): that particular fresco is not in the altar area of the church in question.
In German dioceses, 29. November is also the feast day of:
Jutta of Heiligenthal (Bl.; d. before 1251). Jutta, also known as Jutta of Fuchssthal, was the sister of a knight who had been granted tenure of a place called Bonebach near today's Schwanfeld (Lkr. Schweinfurt) in Unterfranken. In 1233 an arrangement was made whereby this property's actual owner, a count of Henneberg, gave it to the knight as the latter's own for the purpose of erecting there a monastery for a group of women headed by Jutta; this community had been residing in nearby Eßleben and now wished to live according to a rule. On 1. January 1234 the bishop of Würzburg received the monastery as a dependency of St. Kilian. By 1301 this house had passed to the abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Bildhausen (near today's Münnerstadt) and from at least that time onward its sisters lived as Cistercians, though no documentation exists to show that it was ever formally incorporated into that order. The place had become known as Vallis Sanctorum (in German: Heiligenthal) and Jutta was venerated there as its founding abbess; draughts from a gilded cup attached to her arm reliquary were said to cure the ill and infirm who made a pilgrimage there.
Herewith links to English-language and German-language accounts of the abbey of Heiligenthal:
http://monasticmatrix.org/monasticon/heiligenthal
http://www.datenmatrix.de/projekte/hdbg/kloster/pdf/KS0135.pdf
An illustrated, German-language page on the originally later thirteenth-century monastery church of Heiligenthal:
http://tinyurl.com/8ab4og7
Another set of views:
http://tinyurl.com/cpw7pny
Best,
John Dillon
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