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Today (3. July) is the feast day of:
Leo II, pope (d. 683). L. succeeded his fellow Sicilian, pope St.
Agatho, and was in office for slightly less than a year. During his
brief papacy he confirmed the acts of the Third Council of
Constantinople. L. dedicated to St. Stephen the diaconal church in
Rome's Greek quarter into which pope St. Zachary in the following
century placed a relic of St. George and which in time became San
Giorgio in Velabro. He also renovated the church of Santa Bibiana on
the Esquiline and brought there from the catacombs of Generosa the
relics of the martyrs Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice.
A view of the much rebuilt San Giorgio in Velabro showing its twelfth-
or thirteenth-century belltower and the portico as restored following
the bombing of 1993:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SanGiorgio.jpg
Santa Bibiana was rebuilt by Bernini in the early seventeenth century.
The columns in the nave are said to have come from the fifth-century church:
http://tinyurl.com/rcpds
The principal church of Assoro (EN) in Sicily is dedicated to L. A late
fourteenth-century reconstruction of a building perhaps dating to 1186
(when the priory to which it once belonged was founded), it underwent a
series of rebuildings from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth.
A page of views is here:
http://www.comunediassoro.it/pages/leone.htm
Exterior views (belltower, south porch):
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/198/198-06-07-51-8899.jpg
http://www.ciclopiclub4x4.it/974n.JPG
http://www.sicilysicily.it/arte/gruppo_1/images/Assoro_gradinata.JPG
http://www.foto-sicilia.it/go-foto.cfm?id=18699
http://www.siciliaoggi.it/images/Enna/Assoro/viewer.asp?start=6
Though the interior is chiefly baroque:
http://www.apt-enna.com/immagini/Assoro.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/198/198-05-37-58-4769.jpg
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/198/198-05-43-21-5058.jpg
, the presbytery is fourteenth-century (with later appointments):
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/198/198-05-41-25-7218.jpg
A page of views of the church's restored fifteenth-century painted crucifix:
http://www.comunediassoro.it/pages/gagini.htm
Assoro, whose patron saints are Petronilla (31. May) and Nicholas of
Tolentino (10. September), is an agricultural center in Sicily's Monti
Erei. Two panoramas:
http://freeweb.supereva.com/capizzello/assoro.jpg
http://www.siciliaoggi.it/images/Enna/Assoro/images/normal/assoro12.jpg
After the Norman-led conquest of Sicily's Muslim emirates Assoro was
given to the bishop of Catania. Later it passed into the hands of a
series of baronial rulers, who maintained a large fort (the originally
thirteenth-century "Castello Federiciano") at the top of its hill:
http://sicilyweb.com/foto/en/assoro/assoro1.jpg
http://www.siciliaoggi.it/images/Enna/Assoro/images/normal/assoro04.jpg
http://www.siciliaoggi.it/images/Enna/Assoro/images/normal/assoro03.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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