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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 23. September (including Sts. Zechariah [Zachary] and Elizabeth, the parents of St. John the Baptist; St. Linus, pope; St. Thecla of Iconium; St. Sossus [Sosius]; St. Constantius of Ancona; St. Adomnán of Iona): http://tinyurl.com/8w9erzp Further to Zechariah (Zachary) and Elizabeth: Zechariah struck dumb as depicted in a fragmentarily preserved later eighth-century apse fresco in the basilica di Santa Sofia in Benevento: http://tinyurl.com/9lqbvw3 The Annunciation to Zechariah; Zechariah (at far left) writing the name of his son on a tablet as portrayed on two of the earlier thirteenth-century reliefs (ca. 1225-1230) of the main portal of the abbey church of San Giovanni in Venere in Fossacesia (CH) in Abruzzo: http://tinyurl.com/cjhkxyx http://tinyurl.com/d858eab Zechariah as depicted in a September calendar portrait in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the narthex of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija: http://tinyurl.com/63dulxv Zechariah is of course routinely portrayed in representations of the Presentation of the BVM. See the selection of images in the 'Saints of the day' notice for that feast (21. Nov.) in 2010 (with any luck, most of the links will still function properly): http://tinyurl.com/8hmmubn Elizabeth is of course routinely portrayed in representations of the Visitation. See the selection of images in various media in the 'Saints of the day' posts for that feast (31. May) in 2010 and -- a smallish supplementary offering -- in 2012 (with any luck, most of the links will still function properly): http://tinyurl.com/bpxd3rm http://tinyurl.com/c9y9rte On 31. May 2011 Gordon Plumb posted a set of links to depictions of the Visitation in glass: http://tinyurl.com/c28hyys Further to Thecla of Iconium: The Monastic Matrix' 'Vitae' section has a very good page on Thecla's cult: http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/vitae/index.php?function=detail&id=1561 In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of Thecla as portrayed on a [broken] pilgrim's flask in the Yale Art Gallery no longer functions. Use this instead: http://religiousstudies.yale.edu/st-thecla-pilgrim-flask In the same notice, both links to views of the entrance to Thecla's Cave at Ma'aloula no longer function. Use these instead: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/11e62c/ http://tinyurl.com/9g3frzd In the same notice, add this view of Thecla listening to St. Paul as portrayed (bottom register, left) on an earlier fifth-century (ca. 430) ivory plaque now in the British Museum, London: http://tinyurl.com/9hf3suv and this view of Thecla and Paul as depicted (left and center; at right, Mary) in a probably fifth- or sixth-century fresco in the so-called Chapel of Peace in the Bagawat necropolis in Egypt's Kharga Oasis: http://tinyurl.com/8kgdsjt and this view of Thecla (at left) listening to St. Paul (center; at right Thecla's mother, Theocleia) as depicted in a sixth-century fresco in the so-called Grotto of St. Paul in Ephesus: http://tinyurl.com/dx8kuwu and this view of Thecla as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored betw. 1953 and 1962) of the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis: http://tinyurl.com/6dtop6w and this view of Thecla as depicted in the mid- to slightly later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: http://aboard-akka.com/photos/2004sicily/Tecla-in-Palatine.jpg In the same notice, the link to the view of Thecla as depicted in the narthex of the church of the Panagia Phorbiotissa at Asinou still functions. But the link that follows, to a panorama of the frescoes in this narthex, does not. In the same notice, add these views of scenes on Pere Joan's earlier fifteenth-century polychromed alabaster altarpiece (betw. 1426 and 1433) of Thecla in the cathedral of Tarragona: Thecla surviving an attempt to execute her by fire: http://tinyurl.com/2eb7wcj Thecla baptized in a pool: http://tinyurl.com/9dlvfyb Other detail views are here: http://tinyurl.com/38jcm9o Distance views of this altarpiece: http://tinyurl.com/38lcapz http://www.storiadimilano.it/Scultura_Tecla_Tarragona_1426-33.jpg http://tinyurl.com/3yadp85 Further to Adomnán of Iona: Courtesy of the wonderful e-codices site for Swiss libraries, herewith the opening of A.'s _Vita Columbae_ in a contemporary or closely posthumous witness (Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Gen. 1; the scribe is known to have died in 713): http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/sbs/0001/6/medium An opportunity to practice one's skills in reading Irish half-uncial. 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