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From: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Phyllis Jestice
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 3:02 AM
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 8. October
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
Dear learned ones: Demetrios, Thessalonike or Sremska Mitrovica? Matej
Phyllis Jestice wrote:
Today (8. October) is the feast day of:
..
Demetrius (4th cent.?) Demetrius was a deacon martyred at Sirmium
(Mitrovic = Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia, Yugoslavia), in whatever
country
that's in now). Accounts of his death vary from murder by Emperor
Maximian
to service as a soldier that culminated in martyrdom. He was
extremely
popular in the Middle Ages as one of the great patrons of crusaders
and
other fighting men.
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And a slightly different opinion in Kirchenlexikon:
DEMETRIUS, Märtyrer, Heiliger. - D. ist neben St. Georg der
volkstümlichste
Kriegsheilige der östlichen Kirche. Er war, wie die Legende berichtet,
Prokonsul von Achaja und wurde unter Maximianus Herculius mit der
Lanze
durchbohrt, weil er die Christen während der Verfolgung in ihrem
Glauben
bestärkte. - D. ist Patron von Thessalonich und sein Fest in der
römisch-katholischen Kirche der 8., in der orthodox anatolischen der
26.
Oktober.
With bibliography.
Band I (1990)Spalten 1255-1256 Autor: Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz
Letzte Änderung: 03.04.2000
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