medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Sunday, February 3, 2008, at 5:11 pm, I wrote:
> Blaise (d. ca. 316, supposedly).
>
> Since the tenth century B. has been the patron saint of Dubrovnik
> (formerly Ragusa), where an eleventh-century head reliquary of him,
> formed as a Byzantine crown, is kept in that city's early modern
> cathedral dedicated to him:
> http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/5418/dubro41wf.jpg
More views of B.'s head reliquary in Dubrovnik:
On parade:
http://tinyurl.com/2fgkyl
Being touched:
http://www.glas-koncila.hr/rubrike_izdvojeno.html?news_ID=6267
In close-up:
http://www.superstock.com/ImagePreview/1566-0218820
> Dubrovnik also has at least one arm reliquary of B. Another is in the
> cathedral of Ruvo di Puglia (BA) in Apulia, where B. is also the
> patron saint.
>
> Yet another arm reliquary of B. belonged to his originally late
> twelfth-/early thirteenth-century collegiate church at Braunschweig,
> commonly known as the Braunschweiger Dom. Herewith two expandable
> views of this object, now in Braunschweigs's Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfenschatz
The chiesa ("duomo") di San Flaviano at Giulianova (TE) in Abruzzo houses a fourteenth-century silver-gilt arm reliquary of B. and of other saints whose identities were unknown when the reliquary was fashioned:
http://tinyurl.com/27x5xt
http://tinyurl.com/yrgxuh
The same object in another state:
http://tinyurl.com/3685ne
Detail views (expandable by left-clicking) at bottom here:
http://tinyurl.com/35athr
Still in Abruzzo, here's a reliquary of B. and of other saints formerly in the possession of the chiesa di San Nicola at Lanciano (CH) and now in the museum into which that church has been converted:
http://tinyurl.com/2g7z4s
detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/2g55wb
> ... medieval dedications to B. emanating
> from Admont are the fourteenth-century St. Blasius Kirche in Vienna
er, Salzburg
> (replacing a late twelfth-century predecessor):
> http://tinyurl.com/245thz
> http://www.classictic.com/venues/de/26
> http://www.salzburg.com/wiki/index.php/Bild:Blasius_2.jpg
Another view, showing the church's siting against a cliff face:
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2956036680073759724ehVOzb
Its wooden reliquary shrine of B. (1481):
Enlargeable image here:
http://tinyurl.com/2qs397
> and the fifteenth-century St. Blasius Kirche at Klein-Wien in
> Niederösterreich (replacing an originally late eleventh-century predecessor);
> http://www.pfarre-paudorf.com/html/kirche_st__blasien.html
See also:
http://www.bda.at/organisation/126/0/4158/1/3/galerie/852/
http://bda.at/image/431232827.jpg
More dedications to B.:
B.'s late eleventh-century church, now deconsecrated, at Gela (CL) in southeastern Sicily:
http://tinyurl.com/2nadyq
The originally eleventh-century église Saint-Laurent at Empury (Nievre), dedicated in the twelfth century to B. and to the BVM:
http://tinyurl.com/2mfrpg
The eleventh-/fourteenth-century église Saint-Martin et Saint Blaise at Louveciennes (Yvelines):
http://tinyurl.com/2hwekm
http://www.romanes.com/Louveciennes/
The originally twelfth-century église Saint-Blaise at the Abbaye Sainte-Marie in Valbonne (Alpres-Maritimes):
English-language account with plan:
http://www.abbyvalb.com/history_abbey.html
Views:
http://tinyurl.com/2yvj2k
The twelfth-/fourteenth-century église Saint-Blaise at Dompierre-sur-Charente (Charente-Maritime):
http://www.bernezac.com/Dompierre_eglise.jpg
The originally twelfth-century église Saint-Blaise at Arles:
http://www.memo.fr/LieuAVisiter.asp?ID=VIS_FRA_ARL_041
The twelfth-/fifteenth-century Evangelische Stadtkirche St. Blasius in Bopfingen (Ostalb-Kreis) in Baden-Württemberg:
http://tinyurl.com/2sl7xh
The thirteenth-century St. Blasius-Kirche at Hannoversche Münden (Landkr. Göttingen) in Niedersachsen:
http://www.belocal.de/images/36025,1,3,238,0,true,true,0.jpg
http://regiowiki.hna.de/images/4/47/Blasius.jpg
http://kassellexikon.hna.de/images/4/47/Blasius.jpg
This next has dates of parts of the church:
http://kassellexikon.hna.de/Bild:Blasius-alt.jpg
The late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century fortified église Saint-Blaise at Les Pujols (Ariège; belfry dated 1333):
http://tinyurl.com/2nwk4q
Facade (portal is on south flank):
http://tinyurl.com/3yg3b9
The thirteenth-century Dominikanerkirche in Regensburg:
http://www.capa-op.org/regensburg/blasius.html
http://www.bistum-regensburg.de/borPage000391.asp
http://tinyurl.com/yokce4
http://www.mmc-regensburg.de/dominikanerkirche.htm
http://www.capa-op.org/regensburg/blasrundgang.html
The thirteenth-/fourteenth-century Divi-Blasii-Kirche in Mühlhausen (Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis), Thüringen:
http://tinyurl.com/ywxwhp
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divi-Blasii-Kirche_(M%C3%BChlhausen)
J. S. Bach was organist here early in his career.
The fifteenth-/sixteenth-century St. Blasius-Kirche at Kaufbeuren in Bavaria:
http://tinyurl.com/2e9wa8
The fifteenth-/sixteenth-century Oude Blasiuskerk at Delden (Overijssel), restored in 1968:
http://www.cedargallery.nl/images/mini-Delden,%20Blasius.JPG
http://tinyurl.com/2uqy2e
http://tinyurl.com/37vj69
http://www.vomhimmelhoch.nl/VHhArchiefBlassius.html
http://overijsselchurches.tripod.com/deldenherv.html
More portraits:
B. in the twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina at Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/28mj2e
Mid-thirteenth-century (ca. 1250-1260) illumination of B. in the act of healing (Limoges, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 63v):
http://tinyurl.com/23uod3
Fifteenth-century statue of B. at Dubrovnik:
http://www.dubrovnik-croatia.net/novo_web/st_blaise.htm
http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveti_Vlaho_i_Dubrovnik
http://tinyurl.com/ysj65g
http://www.matis.hr/vijesti.php?id=367&lang=hr&month=12&next=OK&today=3&year=2006
Views:
http://www.matis.hr/upl/novosti_1170_v.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hr/6/66/Sv_vlaho.jpg
Fifteenth-century panel painting of B. at Dubrovnik:
http://tinyurl.com/2zkl77
Best again,
John Dillon
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