medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, at 12:13 pm, John Briggs wrote:
> The Four Crowned Martyrs
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> In the Hereford Calendar, a Feast with three lessons.
A group of martyrs about whom nothing is known. Their cult is ancient but all accounts of them are plainly legendary. Their church on the Caelian is built over the remains of a basilica of fourth or fifth century. The latter was presumably the _Titulus Aemilianae_ known from this vicinity from at least the year 499; excavations in its apse in 1882 yielded two fragments of an inscription in Philocalian letters (so created in the fourth century under pope St. Damasus) referring to the suffering of martyrdom by a person or persons whose identity has not been preserved. Reference to the church as the _Titulus sanctorum quattuor coronatum_ is first attested from 595. It was rebuilt in the ninth century, was badly damaged in the eleventh during Guiscard's sack of Rome, was constructed anew in twelfth, and received significant modifications in the thirteenth and the fifteenth. Various accounts of the present church and monastery are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santi_Quattro_Coronati
http://roma.katolsk.no/quattrocoronati.htm
http://www.santiquattrocoronati.org/index_enn.htm
http://www.romasegreta.it/celio/ss.quattrocoronati.htm
http://www.medioevo.roma.it/saggi/chiese/quattro.htm
Views (cosmatesque floor; cloister; chapel of San Silvestro):
http://www.giovannirinaldi.it/page/rome/santiquattro/
Website of the cloister restoration project:
http://www.santiquattrocoronati.org/index_enn.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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