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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 25. June (including St. Febronia of Nisibis; St. Maximus of Turin; St. Prosper of Aquitaine; St. Prosper of Reggio; St. Moluag; St. Adalbert of Egmond; St. William of Montevergine [William of Vercelli]): http://tinyurl.com/7uwyuqx Further to Febronia of Nisibis: Febronia as depicted in the originally earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored betw. 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis: http://tinyurl.com/87g6aj6 Further to Prosper of Aquitaine: The title page and the opening of the text of a tenth-century copy of Prosper's _Expositio psalmorum_ (St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 184, pp. 2-188): http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr/csg/0184/2/medium http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr/csg/0184/3/medium Further to Prosper of Reggio: In that earlier post's notice of this saint, add to the views of his thirteenth-century statue in Perugia's chiesa di San Prospero this view of the object as seen behind the ciborium: http://tinyurl.com/78dxqy7 Further to Adalbert of Egmond: In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of a sixteenth-century depiction of him no longer functions. Use this instead (the image is the same): http://www.abdijvanegmond.nl/uploads/content/picture_2/large/33.jpg Further to William of Montevergine: In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to the set of travel photos of the abbey of the Goleto no longer functions. Use this set instead (pp. 1 and 2 have good views of the Torre Febbronia and of the interior of the cappella di San Luca [the latter was part of the abbey's church in the later Middle Ages]): http://www.giuliomartino.it/foto/2009_0517_goleto_mefite/index.html Today (25. June) is also the feast day of: Tigris (d. later 6th or earlier 7th cent., supposedly; in French: Tigre, Thècle). In _In gloria martyrum_, 13 St. Gregory the Great recounts how, at an unspecified time, a woman who had made an oath to procure a relic from the limbs of St. John the Baptist left Maurienne for a place that had the body of this saint. Having arrived there and having been informed by locals that no such relic was to be had, she remained for close to three years, praying before John's tomb that her wish be granted. Finally, when she was weak from fasting, a shining thumb appeared over the altar. Recognizing this as a divine gift, the woman took the thumb, put it in a small reliquary of gold, and returned home. Thus far Gregory, who then quotes Luke 11:8 on the value of perseverance and who goes on to relate how later three bishops collected from this relic drops of a blood onto a cloth which latter they then divided amongst themselves. An early tenth-century narrative of the founding of the cathedral of Maurienne, the so-called _Auctoritas Moriensis_, names this woman Tigris and tells a more detailed version of the story in which the saint's tomb is located at Sebaste and the acquisition of the thumb is said to have taken place in the reign of king Guntram (561-592), who used the relic to sanctify his newly built cathedral dedicated to St. John the Baptist (the town is now Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne). In his later eleventh-century chronicle Sigebert of Gembloux summarizes Gregory's version (so Tigris is not named here) and dates the acquisition of the thumb and the production of the blood relics to 613. In his thirteenth-century chronicle Albert of Stade calls the woman Thecla. She has a traditional cult in Maurienne with a feast on this day (i.e. the one immediately following that of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist) documented at least as far back as 1251. Tigris' relic of St. John the Baptist on display in the cathedral of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne: http://tinyurl.com/2czuvpx An illustrated, French-language page on the cathedral itself (largely eleventh-century): http://tinyurl.com/748ms2n Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** 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