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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at 2:53 pm, I wrote: > Today (3. March) is the feast day of: > > 1) Cleonicus and Eutropius (d. ca. 306, supposedly). According to > their legendary Passio (two versions: BHG 656a and 656b) the brothers > C. and E. were companions in arms of St. Basiliscus (said in these > texts to have been a nephew of St. Theodore the Recruit), were > martyred at Amasea (today's Amasya in Turkey) under Maximian,... > E. and C. (in that order in the upper register; B. beneath) as > depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century (betw. 1335 and 1350) > frescoes in the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension at the > Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the > matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo > and Metohija: > http://tinyurl.com/yfpsf As some may have been irked to discover, that URL is faulty. The correct one for this depiction of these saints' martyrdom is: http://tinyurl.com/yfpsfsd Best again, JD ********************************************************************** 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