medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Thanks, Karl. Perhaps you shouldn't feel more ashamed than the rest of us -
there were few enough, even among those who were not in personal danger,
who stood up to the Nazis, to defend either their chosen victims among the
Jews, Slavs, gypsies, etc. or Christian teaching. For an English site on Bl.
Restituta Kafka, see
http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id241.htm
Bernadette Filotas
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From: "Karl Brunner" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 17. May
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Sister Restituta:
> One of the few persons of the 20th century Austrian and Czech people
> can be proud of is Sister Restituta, also called by friends "Sister
> Resoluta" because of her resolute nature, executed by the Nazis 1943
> Fevruary 18, blessed 1998 June 21. If you read German see:
> http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.k/k012235.htm
> http://www.restituta.net/
> http://www.franziskaner.at/Blick/restituta.html
> Sorry for mentioning a nearly contemporanian person, but there are
> not so much who are worth to be remembered like her.
> yours
> b.k.
> vienna
>
> Am 17. Mai.2006 um 19:10 Uhr schrieb John Dillon:
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> > culture
> >
> > Today (17. May) is the feast day of:
> >
> > Restituta of Teniza or of Carthage (d. 304). One of the martyrs of
> > Abitene recently highlighted by His Holinesss Benedict XVI for the
> > pronouncement said to have been made by another of their number, _Sine
> > dominico non possumus_ ("We cannot live without Sunday / the
> > Eucharist"), Restituta became a saint of the Regno in the early Middle
> > Ages with an important cult in the area of the Bay of Naples. Her
> > remains are said to have arrived at Ischia in the fifth century and to
> > have been translated in the ninth to Naples, where an early fourth-
> > century basilica was renamed in her honor. In the early fourteenth
> > century this basilica was incorporated into the city's then newly
> > built
> > cathedral as a large chapel; in the seventeenth century it was rebuilt
> > and redecorated. In this plan of the cathedral, it is the structure
> > shown at front left:
> > http://www.icapeceminutolo.it/duomo1.html
> > Here's a view of it:
> > http://www.interviu.it/cards/maggio1/na36.jpg
> > An Italian-language account is here:
> > http://www.lastoriadinapoli.it/luoghi_chiese_restituta.asp
> > An English-language guide is here (click on "Holy Restituta" in the
> > menu bar at top):
> > http://www.duomodinapoli.it/
> > Clicking through the arrows under the plan at right will take one on a
> > Flash Player tour.
> >
> > The Basilica / Cappella di Santa Restituta's side aisles have been
> > converted into individual smaller chapels. One of these side chapels,
> > that of Santa Maria del Principio, is distinguished by a mosaic
> > (signed
> > by Lello of Orvieto and dated 1322) whose central figure of the Virgin
> > enthroned is flanked by Januarius (Gennaro) on the left and by R. on
> > the right:
> > http://tinyurl.com/hs3pt
> > http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/b5eba864.html
> > Better views in color are included in the Flash Player tour noted
> > above.
> >
> > R.'s Passio (BHL 7190) is attributed to the tenth-century Neapolitan
> > hagiographer Peter the Subdeacon. This records how she miraculously
> > escaped execution at sea by her African persecutors and died
> > peacefully
> > at sea; the vessel containing her corpse was then guided
> > angelically to
> > Ischia, where R. was buried and her cult instituted. Recently re-
> > edited
> > by Edoardo D'Angelo, it will be found at pp. 183-99 of his Pietro
> > Suddiacono napoletano, _L'opera agiografica_ (Tavarnuzze [FI]: SISMEL;
> > Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002).
> >
> > R.'s cult spread widely in the Beneventan cultural area. One instance
> > is the late 11th-century chapel dedicated to her at the abbey of San
> > Vincenzo al Volturno, remains of which may be seen here:
> > http://www.sanvincenzoalvolturno.it/pg/sez3_b_ii.htm
> >
> > Whether the Restituta honored at Cagliari (also commemorated today) is
> > in origin the same saint is unclear. That city's Crypt of Saint
> > Restituta contains Christian funerary inscriptions from late antiquity
> > and seems (though the original inscription is lost) to have housed
> > relics of a saint R. since perhaps the sixth century. Its marble cult
> > statue dedicated to her is also late antique. This R. may have been a
> > local saint not identified with R. of Teniza, etc. until the eleventh-
> > century arrival of Benedictines from Montecassino (though if she is
> > the
> > Restituta of the _Vita antiqua_ of Eusebius of Vercelli [BHL 2748-49;
> > variously dated from the late fourth to the seventh century], then she
> > too is said to have been of African origin). Three
> > photograph-accompanied Italian-language accounts of the site are here
> > (the second at the bottom of its webpage):
> > http://web.tiscali.it/gcc/Restituta.htm
> > http://www.ilportalesardo.it/archeo/cacitta_4.htm
> > http://tinyurl.com/8f9lj
> >
> > Views of the statue (said to be of Coptic manufacture) are here:
> > http://www.cagliaridascoprire.it/archeologia/img/statua_restituta.jpg
> > TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/deds4
> > and here (several views):
> > http://www.fotodisardegna.it/cagliari/cripta/cripta.htm
> >
> > Best,
> > John Dillon
> > (last year's post, revised)
> >
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