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Jucundus (d. earlier 6th cent.; also Jocundus, Jocondus; in French, Joconde; in Italian, Giocondo) is attested historically as the bishop of Aosta who subscribed the acts of synods held at Rome in 501 and 502 to consider accusations lodged against pope St. Symmachus. Whereas the date of Jucundus' death is unknown, it is known that from 529 to 546 Aosta's bishop was one Gallus (attested by his surviving epitaph). Jucundus appears in the extremely unreliable late thirteenth-century Vita of bishop St. Gratus of Aosta as the latter's early ninth-century companion both on pilgrimage and later in retirement at an hermitage. To judge from the extracts that have been published, Jucundus' own seemingly late medieval Vita (no BHL number? the eighteenth-century Bollandist Joannes Stiltingh thought it recent) preserved in a legendary in the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (cod. 18947-52, fols. 117-30) is based chiefly upon that of Gratus. Remains believed to be Jucundus' repose in Aosta's cathedral, where they were enshrined in 1615.
Two period-pertinent images of St. Jucundus of Aosta:
a) as portrayed in his mid-fifteenth-century reliquary bust (1449) in the Museo del Tesoro of Aosta's cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta:
http://www.katieking.it/immagini/16/90639E%5B1%5D.jpg
b) as depicted in his late fifteenth-century window (1493) in Aosta's cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta:
http://tinyurl.com/yacqw2n
http://tinyurl.com/zl3gh3n
An Italian-language account of this window:
http://tinyurl.com/ya7tehs
Best,
John Dillon
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