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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 7. November (including St. Athenodorus of Neocaesarea; St. Amarandus; St. Prosdocimus of Padua; St. Herculanus of Perugia; St. Cyngar; St. Willibrord; St. Lazarus the Galesiote; St. Engelbert of Köln): http://tinyurl.com/bl7gjel Further to Athenodorus of Neocaesarea: In the first paragraph of that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'where the young T. soon became G. its bishop.' please read 'where the young G. [St. Gregory the Thaumaturge] soon became its bishop.' Further to Herculanus of Perugia: In that earlier post's notice of this saint, add this link to views of Perugia's originally late thirteenth- and earlier fourteenth-century chiesa di Sant'Ercolano: http://www.paesaggioitaliano.eu/gallery/perugia/slides/084.php In the same notice, the link to an expandable view of Benedetto Bonfigli's painting of Totila's Assault on the City and the Finding of Herculanus' Incorrupt Body (or, in the view of some, ... and the Burial of St. Herculanus) no longer functions. Use this instead: http://tinyurl.com/b6rsgba A revised set of links to other portrayals of Herculanus of Perugia: a) Herculanus as depicted in a fourteenth-century panel painting in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria: http://www.gallerianazionaleumbria.it/images/stories/foto_opere/10.jpg b) Herculanus (center, between his fellow city patrons St. Lawrence and St. Constantius of Perugia) as portrayed in the slightly augmented replicas of their late medieval statues in the lunette above the ornamental entrance of 1346 to Perugia's Palazzo dei Priori (the somewhat less fully preserved originals are within, where they form part of the collection of the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria): http://tinyurl.com/a2e6uvg http://www.flickr.com/photos/_yann_/2716447537/lightbox/ c) Herculanus as portrayed on a late fourteenth- or fifteenth-century coin of Perugia: http://tinyurl.com/6aw43c d) Herculanus (at far left) as depicted by Pietro Perugino in a late fifteenth-century panel painting (1495-1496), now in the Musei Vaticani, of the Madonna and Child with Perugia's patron saints (H., Lawrence, Louis of Toulouse, Constantius of Perugia): http://tinyurl.com/5r4wvx e) Herculanus as depicted by Perugino on a predella panel, now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, from his dismembered San Pietro altarpiece (betw. 1496 and 1500): http://tinyurl.com/7kbk8vb f) Herculanus (at left) as depicted by Perugino in an earlier sixteenth-century panel painting (1517) of the Madonna and Child with patron saints of Perugia (H. and Constantius of Perugia), now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria: http://tinyurl.com/6hxweu g) Herculanus (center, between St. Lawrence and St. Constantius of Perugia) as depicted in an earlier sixteenth-century fresco (betw. 1513 and 1529) in the cappella di San Giovanni Battista in the Collegio di Cambio in Perugia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_yann_/2716447537/lightbox/ Today (7. November) is also the feast day of: Auctus, Taurio[n], and Thessalonica (?). Absent from the early martyrologies and not known to have enjoyed an early cult, these three saints are very poorly attested martyrs of Amphipolis in Macedonia (today's Amfipoli in northeastern Greece). According to a synaxary notice that seems derived from a now lost legendary Passio, Thessalonica (also Thessalonicia) was the daughter at Amphipolis of the arrogant and wealthy pagan priest Cleon. When he discovered that she had converted to Christianity he expelled her from his house and deprived her of all financial support. The upright Auctus and Taurio, citizens of Amphipolis, protested to Cleon against his treatment of Thessalonica. Cleon denounced them as Christians. Arrested, they were first tortured and then executed by decapitation. Thessalonica met a similar end shortly thereafter. Thus far the legend. Like the similarly suspect and recently commemorated Zenobius and Zenobia of Aegae and Galaction and Episteme of Emesa, Auctus, Taurio, and Thessalonica entered the RM under cardinal Baronio and left it in the revision of 2001. Orthodox churches commemorate them today. Auctus and Taurio (scene) and Thessalonica (portrait, upper register) as depicted in a November calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of 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/2eje5yu 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