medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, June 9, 2006, at 08:42 am, John Briggs wrote:
> St Primus and St Felician [presumably martyred in 1969]
Well, reduced in rank at least. They're still in the RM for this date,
but without the memorial.
P. and F., martyrs (supposedly under Diocletian and Maximian) of the Via
Nomentana some fifteen kilometers east of the Eternal City, were
translated by pope Theodore I (642-49) to the church of St. Stephen on
the Caelian and there re-interred in a chapel whose apse restored bears
the seventh-century mosaic seen in these views:
http://beil.typepad.com/photos/rome/altar.html
http://muvtor.btk.ppke.hu/korakoz/kep/s240014.gif
and in this drawing of it in an earlier state:
http://tinyurl.com/pmdfj
The church itself, long known as Santo Stefano Rotondo, was built in the
papacy of St. Simplicius (468-83) to house relics of the protomartyr
Stephen. Originally designed in the form of a Greek cross enclosing
within its arms three concentric circles, each higher than the next, it
has undergone considerable modification over time. A couple of
illustrated, English-language discussions of it are here:
http://tinyurl.com/kem9t
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Stefano_Rotondo
and an illustrated, Italian-language one is here:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Stefano_Rotondo
Some exterior views:
http://ujember.katolikus.hu/Archivum/2001.11.04/1605.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/rxdac
http://tinyurl.com/r4ym8
http://tinyurl.com/jvnxl
Some interior views:
http://www.faculty.sbc.edu/wassell/ArchMath/Unit5/stefano_my.htm
http://tinyurl.com/p9so8
http://tinyurl.com/eneud
In the year 846 relics of P. and F. were deposited in a chapel in the
church of St. Syrus (of Pavia) at today's Leggiuno (VA) on Lago
Maggiore. In time the church itself, rebuilt in the eleventh century
and subsequently modified, came to be known after these saints.
Exterior views:
http://tinyurl.com/ntsc2
http://tinyurl.com/rpgvr
A closer view of the entrance, with Italian-language discussion of the
spolia used:
http://www.provincia.va.it/preziosita/itin/maggiore/leggiuno.htm
Interior view:
http://tinyurl.com/rgd24
Interior: plaque at P.'s loculus recording the arrival of the relics:
http://tinyurl.com/o5h79
Interior: chancel screen:
http://tinyurl.com/qstya
Interior: holy water font:
http://tinyurl.com/hgphj
Interior: Syrus between P. and F.:
http://tinyurl.com/nzu9e
An illustrated, Italian-language page on the church and its history:
http://tinyurl.com/lzpjb
A bare mention suffices for Pavia's own church of Santi Primo e
Feliciano (eleventh-century with fourteenth-century chapels; interior
redone to contemporary taste in the eighteenth century; facade a
nineteenth-century recreation). An illustrated, Italian-language page
discussing its fifteenth-century frescoes is here:
http://www.miapavia.it/articolo.cfm?Id=3585
Best,
John Dillon
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