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The Savoyard Peter of Tarentaise was elected pope on 21. January 1276 and took the name Innocent; he died on this day in the same year. The first Dominican pope, he was a theologian by training who had taught in Paris and had collaborated with Sts. Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas. His commentary on Peter Lombard's _Sentences_ exemplifies the thirteenth-century transition from Augustinian to Aristotelian modes of thought. Briefly archbishop of Lyons in 1272-1273, he was named cardinal bishop of Ostia -- and thus dean of the College of Cardinals -- by Bl. Gregory X in June 1273. At the Second Council of Lyon in 1274 he sang the funeral mass for the recently deceased cardinal bishop of Albano, better known today as St. Bonaventure. Innocent V was beatified in 1898; today is his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
Some period-pertinent images of Bl. Innocent V:
a) as depicted (at left; at right, Bl. Benedict XI) by Tommaso da Modena in his mid-fourteenth-century portraits of Dominican worthies (1351/52) in the chapter room of the chiesa di San Niccolò in Treviso:
http://tinyurl.com/hwt5zux
b) as depicted by Francesco di Michele in a late fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1380) in the ex-convento di San Domenico housing Prato's Museo di Pittura Murale:
http://tinyurl.com/cjmex5m
c) as depicted by Beato Angelico in a mid-fifteenth-century fresco among the portraits of Dominican worthies below his Crucifixion with Saints (early 1440s) in the chapter room of the convento (now Museo nazionale) di San Marco in Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/7g6vxx2
d) as depicted (grayscale view) by Antonio da Fabriano in his late fifteenth-century frescoes (1480) in the ex-convento di San Domenico housing the Museo della Carta in Fabriano (AN):
http://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/foto/80000/52000/51781.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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