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On Monday, June 27, 2011, at 11:38 am, Terri Morgan sent:
> Today, June 27, is the feast of:
>
> Apollinarius of Ravenna (1st century) is now most famous for the two
> great late antique basilicas dedicated to him in Ravenna. According
> to tradition, he was the first bishop of Ravenna - later legend has
> St. Peter commission Apollinarius and send him to northern Italy to
> preach. His cult spread across the Alps to France and Germany,
> especially Alsace.
This entry derives from one by Phyllis Jestice for 27. June 2002, where the saint again is called 'Apollinarius' but is then referred to by his Italian name _Apollinare_. Since the Latin underlying _Apollinare_ is _Apollinaris_ (_Apollinarius_ would yield Italian _Apollinario_) and since this saint is fairly well known, I suppose that 'Apollinarius' here is a typo taken over from whatever source Phyllis was using then.
Apollinaris of Ravenna is now commemorated in the RM on 20. July (his _dies natalis_ as given in his Passio BHL 623, which on this point surely reflects medieval practice). In some local calendars he may still be celebrated on 23. July, his date of celebration in Ado's martyrology, in that of Usuard, and in the general Roman Calendar from the later sixteenth century until that calendar's reform of 1969. According to this Apollinaris' notice by J. P. in the _Acta Sanctorum_, he is recorded in early calendars on one or the other of these two dates.
27. June was given as Apollinaris' _dies natalis_ by the early modern ecclesiastical historian Benedetto Bacchini (1651-1721) in his chronotaxis of Ravenna's bishops. Can anyone say whether this day too is attested medievally as Apollinaris' feast day? I don't have to hand Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis _Ravenna in Late Antiquity_ (Cambridge U. P., 2009) and so can't check there to see whether she has a note about this.
Apollinaris of Ravenna as depicted in mosaic in the apse of Ravenna's earlier sixth-century basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe:
http://tinyurl.com/mh8ek8
http://tinyurl.com/3pwqw29
http://tinyurl.com/429vode
Apollinaris of Ravenna operating a miracle as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (1335) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080, fol. 104r):
http://tinyurl.com/3frrz25
Apollinaris of Ravenna's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (1348) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 167v):
http://tinyurl.com/3f8bnkh
Apollinaris of Ravenna's martyrdom as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 50, fol. 356r):
http://tinyurl.com/3gr5cbn
> Samson/Sampson the Hospitable/the Hospitaler/-of Constantinople (4th
> or 5th century) We first of Samson in a novel of Justinian I from
> November 3, 537 referring to a master of Constantinople's hospice of
> Sampson of blessed memory.
As this year's entry for this saint is based on mine of 27. June last year, let me repeat my correction of that date:
> Er, we first _hear_ of S. ... Apologies for the slip.
Best,
John Dillon
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