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Today (19. July) is also the feast day of:
Ambrose Autpert (d. 784). Of Provençal origin, today's less well known saint of the Regno is best known for his ten-book _Expositio in Apocalypsin_, written between 758 and 769. A monk of San Vincenzo al Volturno in today's Molise, he became its abbot in 777, shortly after the Frankish conquest of most of the Lombard kingdom. But the abbey was situated in the still Lombard-ruled duchy of Benevento and in the following year A. was forced to yield to an anti-Frankish Lombard. A. withdrew to Spoleto; he died while on his way to Rome in an attempt to regain his position. Venerated by his fellow Benedictines, he has never graced the pages of the RM.
San Vincenzo al Volturno became an imperial abbey in 787. Its ninth-century "golden age" came to an end with the Muslim sack of 881. The abbey experienced a second period of prosperity in the late tenth and earlier eleventh centuries; in the early twelfth century it opened a new complex across the Volturno and ceased to maintain the Carolingian and Ottonian structures at the original site. An Italian-language virtual tour begins here (NB: illustrated subordinate pages may be reached by clicking on the map and on the plans):
http://www.sanvincenzoalvolturno.it/pg/sez3_0.htm
More views here:
http://web.tiscali.it/aptvolturnia/page12.html
Some expandable views of illuminated pages from manuscripts of A.'s Apocalypse commentary:
http://tinyurl.com/5a4x9m
Best,
John Dillon
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