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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture John Dillon wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Today (8. August) is the feast day of: > > 1) Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus (?). C., L., and S. are martyrs of the Via Ostiensis, recorded for today by the _Depositio Martyrum_ of the Chronographer of 354. C. was early confused with the C. of 16. March, seemingly a Greek saint. When he, L., and S. became characters in the legendary _Passio sancti Marcelli_ (BHL 5234, 5235; C. as a deacon, L. and S. as his housemates in life and companions in death), their martyrdom, supposedly occurring under Maximian during the Great Persecution, was in this story said to have taken place on that earlier date. But the author of the Passio, aware too of their celebration on this day in August, implicitly converted the latter into a translation feast commemorating what the Passio describes as their solemn reburial by pope St. Marcellus I. In Ado and in Usuard their martyrdom is recorded on both days. Prior to 2001 the RM had opted for the March date made traditional by the Passio. > > To distinguish him from one or more of the numerous other saints of this name, C. is also known as Cyriac of Rome. Thanks to an episode the Passio, he became known as someone to invoke in cases of demonic possession. Venerated singly, C. enjoyed considerable popularity in northern Europe from the Ottonian period onward and became one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the later Middle Ages. > > Devotion to C. has been especially strong in Germany In the tenth century a relic believed to be his was brought to today's Gernrode (Kr. Quedlinburg) in Sachsen-Anhalt and there deposited in a newly built monastic church for women that had been dedicated to St. Mary and St. Peter. In time the church became known instead as that of C. (who, after all, was present -- at least in part -- in the confessio). Herewith views of Gernrode's Stiftskirche St. Cyriakus (west portions rebuilt in the twelfth century): > > http://www.harz-paradies.de/pics/GernrodeSt.CyriakusMotorradGro%DF.gif > http://tinyurl.com/fu7x9 > http://tinyurl.com/zehft > http://tinyurl.com/hrbcq > http://tinyurl.com/zjdsf > http://tinyurl.com/ht9mg > http://tinyurl.com/zyl3z > http://tinyurl.com/hkymy > > This church contains a Holy Sepulcher (later eleventh-/early twelfth-century), described here: > http://tinyurl.com/oc6ro > and shown here: > http://dl.ccc.cccd.edu/classes/internet/art100/images/S0096319.jpg > http://tinyurl.com/g7j9a > http://tinyurl.com/galfv > http://tinyurl.com/h7dh7 > http://tinyurl.com/fyrf3 > http://tinyurl.com/o5ch3 > There is also a baptismal font of the mid-twelfth century: > http://tinyurl.com/jsryz > > Other dedications to C.: > 1. Pfarrkirche St. Cyriakus (twelfth-/thirteenth-century; rebuilt,seventeenth century), Marburg-Bauerbach, Hessen: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Bauerbach_church.jpg > 2. Paroissiale (ancienne abbatiale) St-Cyriaque (twelfth-/eighteenth-century), Altorf (Bas-Rhin), Alsace: > http://perso.orange.fr/jean-marie.poncelet/altorf.htm > 3. St. Cyriakus Propstei-Kirche (1250-1490; later additions and modifications), Duderstadt, Niedersachsen: > Account: > http://www.st-cyriakus.city-map.de/3.html > Views: > http://tinyurl.com/nemhh > 4. St. Cyriakus Kirche (mostly fifteenth-century), Weeze (Kreis Kleve), Nordrhein-Westfalen: > http://tinyurl.com/kn639 And for his most famous namesake: http://nauplion.net/CYRIACO.html DW ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html