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The two processions of martyrs in Ravenna's Sant'Apollinare Nuovo are ordinarily dated to around 561, the year in which that church was rededicated to St. Martin of Tours (who is depicted at the head of the male martyrs, while the Magi lead the female martyrs). That relatively early date makes it rather more likely, at least in the present state of knowledge, that the Eulalia depicted in the procession of female saints is she of Mérida (10. December), already famous thanks to Prudentius' very stylized and probably largely fictional late fourth- or very early fifth-century hymn celebrating her (_Peristephanon_, 3), than that she is the Eulalia of Barcelona (12. February), whose hagiographic dossier is said to begin only in the seventh century and whose cult does not appear to have spread beyond northern Iberia prior to her invention and translation of 878 (recorded in BHL 2697).
Some medieval images of Eulalia of Barcelona:
Scenes from Eulalia of Barcelona's Passio as portrayed on her historiated sarcophagus (1327-1339, by masters from Pisa and Siena) in the crypt of that city's late thirteenth- to twentieth-century Catedral Basilica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia:
http://tinyurl.com/2ytyo2
http://tinyurl.com/6q2kpa3
http://tinyurl.com/6mrtgox
Eulalia of Barcelona's martyrdom as depicted in the late fourteenth- / early fifteenth-century Breviary of Martin of Aragon (Paris, BnF, ms. Rothschild 2529, fol. 317r):
http://tinyurl.com/6rxnept
Eulalia of Barcelona's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (betw. 1427 and 1437) by Bernard (Bernat) Martorell on an altarpiece in the Museu episcopal in Vic:
http://tinyurl.com/6n5dqvk
Scenes from Eulalia of Barcelona's Passio as portrayed in early sixteenth-century reliefs by Bartolomé Ordóñez (commissioned, 1517) in the retrochoir of Barcelona's Catedral Basilica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia:
http://tinyurl.com/q3dvosp
http://tinyurl.com/n42vy5k
Detail views (Eulalia's flagellation, Eulalia's crucifixion):
http://tinyurl.com/jvomuss
http://tinyurl.com/nxp2lc3
Best,
John Dillon
On 02/12/15, Genevra Kornbluth wrote:
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> Eulalia is among the saints depicted at Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna:
> http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/SantApollinareNuovo.html
> row 5 nos. 3 and 4
> Genevra
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> On 2/12/2015 9:59 AM, Heintzelman, Matthew wrote:
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> > https://www.facebook.com/604882972899463/photos/a.624764970911263.1073741830.604882972899463/779154425472316/?type=1&theater
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> >
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> > For refusing to recant her Christianity, the Romans subjected her to thirteen tortures; including:
> > • Putting her into a barrel with knives (or glass) stuck into it and rolling it down a street (according to tradition, the one now called Baixada de Santa Eulalia "Saint Eulalia's descent").
> > • Cutting off her breasts
> > • Crucifixion on an X-shaped cross. She is depicted with this cross, the instrument of her martyrdom.
> > • Finally, decapitation.
> > A dove flew from her neck after decapitation. This is one point of similarity with the story of Eulalia of Mérida, in which a dove flew from the girl's mouth at the moment of her death. In addition, Eulalia of Mérida's tortures are sometimes enumerated among the Barcelona martyrs, and the two were similar in age and year of death. (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulalia_of_Barcelona
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