medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Thanks, John.
In case anyone is interested in the whole Arca, with the scene from
which the detail of Monica derives and her funeral, here's the page:
www.kornbluthphoto.com/Arca.html
best,
Genevra
On 8/27/2016 4:09 AM, John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Monica (in mss. also Monnica and Munica), the mother of tomorrow's St. Augustine of Hippo needs no introduction to this list. While she and the recently baptized Augustine were journeying to Hippo from Cassiciacum in northern Italy she died on 27. August 387 at Ostia. She was interred there; later (how much later is uncertain) an identifying inscription in three elegiac distichs was placed above her tomb (_Anth. Lat._, ed. Riese, I, 670; the accuracy of its ms. ascription to a former Roman consul named Bassus has been questioned). In 1945 part of a marble slab bearing a copy of those verses in what has been described as a late sixth- or seventh-century inscription was found in the vicinity of the chiesa (now basilica) di Sant'Aurea in Ostia Antica. It is now mounted inside that church:
> http://www.ostia-antica.org/img/aurea_4.jpg
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> In 1162 remains believed to be those of Monica were translated to Arrouaise abbey near today's Mesnil-en-Arrouaise (Somme); a Vita of Monica (BHL 6000; derived principally from passages in Augustine's _Confessions_) was written to accompany these relics and survives in at least two fifteenth-century copies. The abbey was the mother house of a congregation of canons partly guided by the Augustinian Rule, the Canons Regular of Arrouaise. An Augustinian feast of Monica (on 4. April, the day before that of the Conversion of St. Augustine) is first attested from 1365.
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> In 1430 relics believed to be those of Monica were moved at the behest of pope Martin V from the aforementioned church in Ostia to the Augustinian church of St. Tryphon in Rome (now the basilica dei Santi Trifone e Agostino, otherwise referred to as the basilica di Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio). Miracles reported from this translation led to the establishment of Monica's papally recognized cult in the Roman church as a whole. Today (27. August) is her current feast day in the Roman Calendar (previously it was 4. April).
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> Some period-pertinent images of St. Monica:
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> a) as twice portrayed in relief on the later fourteenth-century upper portion (completed by 1380) of the Arca di Sant'Agostino in the basilica di San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia:
> 1) kneeling in prayer (photograph courtesy of Genevra Kornbluth):
> http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/Pavia_195.jpg
> 2) her funeral:
> http://www.gliscritti.it/gallery3/index.php/album_083/_MG_2608
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>
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