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On 12/25/12, I wrote:
> e) The Nativity as depicted in the mid-twelfth-century frescoes of the basilica di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della Martorana) in Palermo:
> http://tinyurl.com/7g7s7d4
For 'frescoes' (an unfortunate substitution error) please read 'mosaics'.
> 6) Jacopone of Todi (Bl.; d. ca. 1306).
>
> Jacopone died on this day at the Poor Clares' convent of San Lorenzo at the Umbrian town of Collazzone, not far from Todi. He was buried at the Franciscan convent of Monstesanto (or Montecristo) in Todi.
>
For 'Monstesanto' (a typo) please read 'Montesanto'.
Today (25. December) is also the feast day of:
Bentivoglio 'de Bonis' (d. ca. 1232). Bentivoglio is a figure of early Franciscan tradition. He appears in the _Actus beati Francisci et sociorum ejus_, cap. 53, par. 3 and 4 (where in Sabatier's edition he is called Bentevoglia and where the manuscript readings cited certainly authorize a termination in -a rather than in -o), and the latter's Italian-language version _I Fioretti di San Francesco_, Bk. 1, cap. 42 (where in the editions I've looked at he is called Bentivoglia; the _Fioretti_'s English-language translation by Arthur Livingstone, perhaps normalizing to accord with modern ecclesiastical usage, calls him Bentivoglio). These texts say that he was a brother, that he came from San Severino (today's San Severino Marche), that a parish priest named Masseo had in San Severino a vision of Bentivoglia levitating while praying in a wood and that in consequence of this Masseo, who was so holy that he performed many miracles both while alive and after death, became a Franciscan; further, that when Bentivoglia was at Trabes Bonati / Trave Bonanti (today's Ponte la Trave, a locality of Pievebovigliana [MC] in the Marche) without a companion and had been called to another place, not wishing to abandon a leper for whom he was caring, he carried that person on his shoulders for fifteen miles to his destination, miraculously accomplishing his journey entirely between first light and sunrise. The destination is given variously as Mons Santi Vicini (now better known as Monte San Vicino) and as Monte Sancino. The distance has given rise to the view that the place in question was today's Potenza Picena (MC).
Later elaboration gave Bentivoglia the surname Bonus (Italian: Boni), declared him to be of noble birth, added family details and a story of how he came to enter the Brothers Minor, made him not only a priest but also a highly effective preacher, and had him die on the 25th of December. In the early modern period his name is usually given as Bentevoglio or Bentivoglio. Remains said to be his were kept in San Severino Marche's convent church of San Francesco, where he was celebrated as a saint for centuries prior to the papal confirmation of his cult in 1852 at the level of Beatus and under the name form Bentivolius de Bonis. San Severino Marche's convent of San Francesco was suppressed in 1865; Bentivoglio's putative remains are now kept in the Santuario Madonna dei Lumi near the Castello.
Best,
John Dillon
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