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Herewith a link to an earlier saints of the day for 19. May (including St. Pudentiana; St. Urban I, pope; St. Dunstan; St. Peter Celestine; St. Ivo of Kermartin; Bl. Agostino Novello):
http://tinyurl.com/8yupldk
Further to Pudentiana:
Pudentiana (second from left; betw. St. Agnes and St. Praxedis; Agnes and Pudentiana identified inscriptionally) as depicted in a ninth-century mosaic in the cappella di San Zenone in Rome's basilica di Santa Prassede:
http://tinyurl.com/5ayuee
In this other ninth-century mosaic in the same chapel the three saints are likewise often identified as Agnes (with a martyr's crown), Pudentiana, and Praxedis:
http://tinyurl.com/57ungp
In the final paragraph of that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'Bibliothèque municipale' please read 'Bibliothèque-Médiathèque Municipale Ceccano'.
Further to Urban I:
In the fourth paragraph of that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a page with views of the fresco cycle of Rome's extramural chiesa di Sant'Urbano alla Caffarella no longer takes one there directly. Please use this instead:
http://www.gliscritti.it/gallery3/index.php/album_015
In the seventh paragraph of the same notice, the fourth link to the views of the collégiale de Saint-Urbain at Troyes is not activating the photographic image. To see that, click on the small, oblong white box at the upper center of the page that does come up.
In the same notice, add this link to an expandable view (at lower right) of the martyrdom of Urban and five companions as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 64r):
http://tinyurl.com/882zgzg
In the same notice, the three links to views of the late Gothic altar in the St.-Liudger-Maternus-Kirche in Eisleben's locality of Unterrißdorf no longer function. This page has two views of its sculptural image of Urban in his role in at least German-speaking areas as the patron saint of wine-growers (note the grapes on the book):
http://tinyurl.com/87ghnjs
And a distance view of the altar as a whole is here:
http://www.luther-in-unterrissdorf.de/index.php/kirche/altar
Another late Gothic portrayal of Urban as patron of wine-growers (note again the grapes on the book), this time in the Stadtmuseum in Krems an der Donau in Austria:
http://tinyurl.com/bt7l2lr
Further to Dunstan:
A new set of views of St Dunstan's Church in Canterbury:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16162181@N05/6675518211/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorywilliams/363521418/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mreames/601975545/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mreames/601982157/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16162181@N05/6675517673/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16162181@N05/6675493893/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16162181@N05/6675501357/lightbox/
Further to Peter Celestine:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, add after the links to views of his relics on display in L'Aquila's basilica di Santa Maria di Collemaggio this link to a page with two views of the display reliquary taken during the visit of His Holiness Benedict XVI on 28. April 2009 (within three weeks of the earthquake):
http://tinyurl.com/dyu4ukk
Further views of the reliquary, of His Holiness next to it, and of the earthquake damaged church will be found perhaps a quarter of the way down this page:
http://tinyurl.com/bu7p4y8
In the same notice, the link to a view of a rebuilt fountain (the Fontana Fraterna) in Isernia dubiously associated with him no longer functions. Use instead this link to a set of expandable views of the monument in question:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fraterna&w=7945858%40N08
And add both this illustrated, Italian-language page on the fountain and its history by Franco Valente:
http://tinyurl.com/72mgrln
and this illustrated English-language page on the same fountain by Dan Diffendale (taking issue with Valente on at least one point):
http://triacorda.blogspot.com/2008/05/isernias-fontana-fraterna.html
In the same notice, the link to a view of Peter Celestine as depicted in a later fourteenth-century painting from the abbey of Santa Maria in Casaluce (CE) and now in the Cappella Palatina in Naples' Castel Nuovo no longer functions. An indistinct view of the entire composition is here:
http://140.164.3.3/remuna/musciv/palatina.html
and here's a better detail view of Peter's facial portrait in this painting:
http://santuariodicasaluce.com/download/San%20Celestino.jpg
Peter Celestine as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century copy of Umbrian origin of the _Vaticinia de summis pontificibus_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 2130, fol. 4r):
http://tinyurl.com/893lzrw
Today (19. May) is also the feast day of:
Humiliana (d. 1246). The ascetically inclined Humiliana (also Aemiliana; in Italian, Umiliana) belonged to the prominent Florentine family of the Cerchi. At the age of fifteen she was married to a crude but wealthy weaver whose tight control of the household's finances prevented her from making generous charitable donations. Humiliana is said to have given to the poor nonetheless, using food she that withdrew from the household and wool and linen cloth that she wove without her husband's knowledge or consent. According to her Vita by the Franciscan Vito of Cortona (BHL 4041), after her husband died she refused to remarry, greatly increased her charitable giving, fasted regularly, experienced visions, took the habit of a Franciscan tertiary, and exercised a spiritual influence over some of the Franciscan men with whom she associated and who came to consider her a living saint. Today is her _dies natalis_.
Humiliana was twenty-seven when she died; her family promoted her cult. Her relics are in Florence's principal Franciscan church, the basilica di Santa Croce. Beatified in 1695, she appears in the new RM with her traditional designation _Sancta_.
Some views of Humiliana's altar in Santa Croce with its reliquary chest and with her head reliquary fashioned by Lorenzo Ghiberti:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jere7my/4107754449/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jere7my/4107755891/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jere7my/4107755147/lightbox/
Humiliana (at far right, with a donor [Umiliana di Lapaccio di Manno de' Cerchi]) as depicted in Bicci di Lorenzo's earlier fifteenth-century Coronation of the Virgin with Saints (after 1430; in Florence's basilica di Santa Trinita):
http://www.museumsinflorence.com/foto/santa%20trinita/image/5.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/bomnyen
Best,
John Dillon
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