medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, February 2, 2006, at 7:47 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Today (3. February) is the feast day of:
>
> Blaise (d. c. 316) Blaise's cult only appears to have developed
> in
> the ninth century.
According to both Paul Wiertz in the _Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche_
(II, 525-26) and Maria Vittoria Brandi and Cesarina Vighy in the
_Bibliotheca Sanctorum_ (III, 165-70), the sixth-century medical
encyclopedist Aetius of Amida already records B. as being invoked in
cases of illness of the throat. And B.'s cult must have had some time
to develop before the Basil who became saint Blasios of Amorion took
the latter name when he entered religion in or near that Anatolian city
in the first half of the ninth century.
Best,
John Dillon
PS: As an entry in the ongoing, if rather occasional, competition for
the ugliest church dedicated to a Phyllistinean saint (small church
category), I herewith submit some views of the originally 10th-century
San Biagio at Nepi (VT). In the first of these, San Biagio is the
building on the right:
http://tinyurl.com/cc4et
http://tinyurl.com/crdf4
http://tinyurl.com/9vj39
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