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21. October was also the feast day of:
1) Dasius, Zoticus, and Gaius (d. 304?). D., Z., and G. are martyrs of Nicomedia entered for today in the Syriac and the (pseudo-)Hieronymian martyrologies as well as in the historical martyrologies of the ninth century. Nicomedia having been Diocletian's capital, it is supposed that they were early victims of his persecution. A brief Passio in Greek (BHG 492) says that they were tortured before being thrown into the sea to drown.
2) Tammarus (d. later 5th cent., supposedly). This less well known saint of the Regno has been venerated since at least the twelfth century in Benevento and in other towns of Campania and of Frosinone province in southern Lazio. Absent from the early martyrologies and from the Marble Calendar of Naples, he is one of twelve African bishops said in the legendary and synthesizing thirteenth(?)-century _Vita sancti Castrensis_ (BHL 1644-1645) to have been exiled under the Vandals and to have found found refuge in Campania, with T. settling down at Benevento as a hermit and later becoming its bishop. At Benevento, where T. is entered under 15. October in the twelfth-century calendar of Santa Maria del Gualdo and in the also twelfth-century missal of San Pietro (Bibl. Cap., Cod. VI. 29;still[?] in the British Library, which latter has agreed to return it to the archdiocese), he is now celebrated on 21. October.
Putative relics of T. repose under the main altar of Benevento's cathedral. Elsewhere in Campania, he is the patron saint of San Tammaro (CE), of Villa Literno (CE), and of Grumo Nevano (NA); in these place T. is celebrated on 15. or 16. January (the latter since the later MIdlle Ages has been his feast day in the dioceses of Capua and Aversa). A few slightly expandable views of his originally twelfth-century church at San Tammaro, a _frazione_ of today's Casaluce (CE) are here:
http://tinyurl.com/5szzj6
3) Wendelin (d. later 6h or early 7th cent.?). W. is a saint of the dioceses of Metz and Trier, where he seems to have been venerated since at least the tenth century. His fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Vitae (BHL 8845, 8846; there are also two contemporary Lives in German) make him an Irishman who became a hermit and at whose tomb at a locale called _Basonis villare_ (attested in an early eleventh-century calendar of Stablo/Stavelot) miracles took place. W. is credited in these Vitae with saving the city of Saarbrücken from a great fire in 1417. His cult was confirmed papally in 1450. In Germany he is usually celebrated on 20. October.
In about 1050 _Basonis villare_, now St. Wendel in the Saarland, began to be called by the name of its saint. Its originally fourteenth-century church dedicated to him houses his putative remains in a raised tomb (Hochgrab) that was dedicated in 1360. Some exterior views of the church:
http://tinyurl.com/2lchsn
http://tinyurl.com/68uywg
http://tinyurl.com/5qpcm3
An interior view:
http://tinyurl.com/6xpwhd
Other interior views of the church, including (lower down on the page) views of the tomb, will be found here:
http://www.sankt-wendelinus.de/index.php?id=196
Another view of the tomb:
http://tinyurl.com/5kb57d
Best,
John Dillon
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