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Oops!! My attention seems to have wandered when I approved today's post on St. Ennodius.
At the end of the second paragraph please add a new sentence: "Today is his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology."
In the links to images, at items a, b, and c for "San Maria Maggiore" please read "San Michele Maggiore".
Apologies for the slips.
--JD
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Subject: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (July 17): St. Ennodius
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The literary and ecclesiastical writer and church diplomat Magnus Felix Ennodius, seemingly a native of Arles, was orphaned at an early age. A member of the late antique nobility, he was brought up by an aunt in Pavia. There he had a good formal education, dissolved a spousal union (it is not clear whether this had proceeded from engagement to marriage), and by 494 had entered church service under bishop St. Epiphanius of Pavia. In that year he accompanied Epiphanius on a mission for Theodoric the Great to the Burgundian king Gundobad. Ennodius became bishop of Pavia in 513; in 515 and again in 517 he was in Constantinople as an emissary of pope St. Hormisdas in the latter's efforts to resolve the Acacian schism. Among his surviving writings are Vitae of Sts. Antonius of Lérins and Epiphanius of Pavia, an autobiography modeled on St. Augustine's _Confessiones_, a panegyric of Theodoric, a defense of the synod in 502 that chose not to condemn pope St. Symmachus, model speeches, numerous letters and occasional poems, and a treatise on the study of rhetoric.
Ennodius died on this day in 521. He was buried in Pavia's church of St. Michael, now after much rebuilding its basilica di San Michele Maggiore. Here's a view of his funerary inscription:
http://tinyurl.com/zmbt25s
Along with its titular and with bishop St. Eleucadius of Ravenna Ennodius is one of the major saints of Pavia's San Michele Maggiore.
Herewith some period-pertinent images of St. Ennodius:
a) as portrayed in relief over the baptismal niche inside the late eleventh- or early twelfth-century north transept of the basilica di San Maria Maggiore in Pavia:
http://www.liutprand.it/articoliPavia/01color.jpg
b) as portrayed in relief (at far left; now headless) over the left portal on the earlier twelfth-century west facade of the basilica di San Maria Maggiore in Pavia:
http://tinyurl.com/zxudex8
Detail view:
http://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/foto/160000/141200/140963.jpg
c) as portrayed in relief (at right; at left, St. Eleucadius of Ravenna; at center, St. Michael) on the front of the late fourteenth-century altar (1383; containing his and Eleucadius' relics) in the sacristy of the basilica di San Maria Maggiore in Pavia:
http://www.sanmichelepavia.it/html/data_altare/images/a_1.jpg
Detail view (Ennodius):
http://www.sanmichelepavia.it/foto_pag/altare_4.jpg
d) as depicted (at the head? -- in the text he is the first named of the two envoys -- of a delegation approaching the emperor Anastasius I on behalf of pope St. Hormisdas) in a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Giovanni Colonna's _Mare historiarum_ (betw. 1447 and 1455; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 4915, fol. 290r):
Best,
John Dillon
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