medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, May 12, 2006, at 2:44 am, John Briggs wrote:
> Phyllis G. Jestice wrote:
> >
> > Today (12. May) is the feast day of:
> >
> > Nereus and Achilleus
>
> and Pancras [you've forgotten Pancras!]
Indeed. Herewith a few visible testimonies to medieval veneration of
Pancras, the martyr of the Via Aurelia, said to have been aged fourteen
at the time of his execution. In view of the recent consideration of
St. Anthimus (11. May), one could start with the remains of the former
Benedictine monastery of San Pancrazio ad Lutum (San P. al Fango) near
Grosseto in Tuscany, first mentioned in a donation of 814 that is also
the earliest known reference to the abbey of Sant'Antimo near
Montalcino. An illustrated, Italian-language account of the monastery
is here:
http://biblio.comune.grosseto.it/atlante/padule_spancrazio.htm
and an illustrated, Italian-language account of the ruins is here:
http://biblio.comune.grosseto.it/atlante/padule_spancrazio_ruderi.htm
Tuscany has a number of originally medieval churches dedicated to P.
Here's a front view of the Pieve (parish church) of San Pancrazio at San
Casciano in Val di Pesa (FI):
http://www.flownet.it/Turismo/Chianti/San_Casciano/San_Pancrazio.html
and here's an apse view of the same church:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:San_pancrazio_-_abside.jpg
A few detail views of the Pieve di San Pancrazio at Cavriglia (AR),
perhaps dating to 1146:
http://www.poggidelchianti.com/pieve.htm
http://www.ciboviaggiando.it/images%5Ccavriglia%5Cchiesa2.jpg
And here's a view of the also "romanesque" Pieve di San Pancrazio at
Sestino (AR):
http://192.167.112.135/asemt/pagine/spancraziobig.html
In northern Lazio, the twelfth- / thirteenth-century church of San
Pancrazio at Tarquinia (VT):
http://tinyurl.com/g7eqr
http://tinyurl.com/r8xtq
http://tinyurl.com/fpsca
And, more humbly, San Pancrazio in Nucerino at Montefiascone (VT):
http://utenti.lycos.it/montefiascone/itsanpancrazio.htm
http://www.montefiascone1.it/montefiascone107.htm
The facade of Rome's rebuilt church of San Pancrazio retains medieval
stonework. Two accounts of this building are here:
http://roma.katolsk.no/pancrazio.htm
http://www.viavenetoroma.it/it/chiese/DettaChiese.asp?id=219
A view of the adjacent catacombs:
http://www.iterconficere.net/s.pancrazio.htm
In southern Lazio, P. is the patron of Albano Laziale (RM), whose early
modern cathedral is dedicated to him. That building had important late
antique and medieval predecessors, the former dedicated to John the
Baptist and the latter to P. These are briefly noted here (in English):
http://tinyurl.com/lequv
and here (in Italian):
http://www.comune.albanolaziale.roma.it/Guida/tour19.htm
Celebration of P. has been going on here all week.
The late twelfth-century San Pancrazio in Nursi at Sedini (SS) in
northern Sardinia occupies a former monastic building not originally
designed as a church:
http://tinyurl.com/fbsu6
http://www.comunedisedini.it/Contenuto/Immagini/S.htm
http://www.comunedisedini.it/Contenuto/Immagini/sPancCH.htm
http://www.comunedisedini.it/Contenuto/Immagini/PANCR.htm
While in southern Sardinia, one of Cagliari's most impressive medieval
remains, the early fourteenth-century Torre di San Pancrazio, was named
for a nearby church that no longer exists. An Italian-language account
of this fortification remnant is here:
http://www.comunedisedini.it/Contenuto/Immagini/S.htm
and views of it are here:
http://www.romanvirdi.com/sardinia/P7090432a.jpg
http://www.fotodisardegna.it/cagliari/torri/pancraz.htm
In northern Italy, P.'s rebuilt church at San Pancrazio (PR) in Emilia
preserves a "romanesque" interior:
http://tinyurl.com/s3wz9
http://tinyurl.com/qkomu
P. is also the patron of Montichiari (BS) in Lombardy, whose church
dedicated to him dates back to the twelfth century.
Plan:
http://www.archeologiamontichiari.it/pop_up.asp?id=124
Views:
http://tinyurl.com/zs95u
http://tinyurl.com/koet3
http://tinyurl.com/gsq9b
http://tinyurl.com/h33x3
The adjacent medieval burying ground is now an archeological site of note:
http://www.archeologiamontichiari.it/scheda_sito.asp?id=10
A later dedication to P. in the same region is his former parish church
at Vedano Olona (VA), said to be originally of the thirteenth century:
http://www.comune.vedano-olona.va.it/foto/galleria/pancrazio.jpg
http://www.comune.vedano-olona.va.it/foto/galleria/pancrazio3.jpg
http://www.comune.vedano-olona.va.it/foto/galleria/pancrazio_interno2.jpg
Finally, the facade of the originally fifteenth-century Franciscan
church of San Pancrazio at Barbarano (VI) in the Veneto:
http://www.prolocoponte.it/pagineimg/sanpancrazio3PAG.htm
bears an interesting resemblance to that of one of P.'s better known
north European dedications, Saint Pancras Old Church in London:
http://tinyurl.com/kkcnf
Best,
John Dillon
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