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Today (19. December) is also the feast day of:
Berard, bp. of Teramo (d. 1123). Today's less well known saint from
the Regno is said to have belonged to the family of the counts of
Pagliara (in the vicinity of the Gran Sasso). After entering monastic
life at Montecassino he became abbot of the not yet Cistercian
monastery of San Giovanni in Venere near Chieti and, supposedly against
his will, was elected bishop of today's Teramo (TE) late in 1115,
displaying in this office great piety, charity, and simplicity of
spirit. His Vita (BHL 1175) is attributed to an early thirteenth-
century successor; perhaps not surprisingly, it also lauds his
administrative ability and reforming zeal.
Teramo's late antique to early twelfth-century cathedral (therefore
B.'s cathedral church) was destroyed by fire at the end of 1155 or the
beginning of 1156. Known today as the church of Sant'Anna, it has a
few remains above ground but is functional beneath. A few views follow:
http://www.contidimonteverdebasso.it/ChiesaSantAnna.jpg
http://www.tuttoteramo.it/site/immagini/TERAMO2.jpg
Its successor, begun in 1158, is dedicated to the BVM and to B., whose
relics are retained here. Increasingly brief Italian-language accounts
of this building, which was restored in the early 1930s, are at:
http://www.diocesiteramoatri.it/arte/cattedrale.asp
http://www.abruzzoheritage.com/magazine/2002_05/a_it.htm
http://www.ospitalitalia.it/arte_scheda.php.id.2445
A French-language account is here (watch the wrap!):
http://www.mondes-
normands.caen.fr/france/Patrimoine_architectural/Italie/mezzogiorno/abru
zzo/15Cattedrale_di_S.Berardo/scorri15.htm
A four-page illustrated guide to the exterior (click on "avanti" at
lower right) is here:
http://www.viedellidentita.it/risorsa1-esterno-pag1.html
And a plan of the interior (with illustrations that open when one
clicks on the numbers) is here:
http://www.viedellidentita.it/risorsa1-interno.html
Some views of the exterior:
http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/giornale/2003/12/19/13,CRONACA/BRI13TSAN
TO.jpg
http://www.abruzzocitta.it/images/fotote2.jpg
http://www.diocesiteramoatri.it/immagini/foto/diocesi.jpg
also the second photograph here (watch the wrap!):
http://www.abruzzovirtualtour.it/modules.php?
name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&album=134&cat=0&page=1
and (again, watch the wrap):
http://www.mondes-
normands.caen.fr/france/Patrimoine_architectural/Italie/mezzogiorno/abru
zzo/15Cattedrale_di_S.Berardo/A.htm
http://www.mondes-
normands.caen.fr/france/Patrimoine_architectural/Italie/mezzogiorno/abru
zzo/15Cattedrale_di_S.Berardo/B.htm
Exterior details and a few treasures from within are shown in
expandable illustrations here (caution: expansions are slow to load):
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/mpaolizz/cultura/monumenti/duomo.htm
Inside, the enamelled antependium (between 1433 and 1448) before the
main altar is a real treat:
http://www.arpai.org/en/restauri-teramo1.html
Open the .pdf for a close-up and discussion (a little less than halfway
through the file).
Finally, some views of the abbey church of San Giovanni in Venere are
here:
http://www.abruzzoverdeblu.it/?id=28
http://www.comune.fossacesia.ch.it/page_select.asp?id=68
http://www.gianpysurf.com/Info/fossacesia.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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