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Re-sent, this time with the missing link (or some other early hominid).
Herewith a link for an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 9. January
(including St. Marcellus of Ancona; St. Hadrian of Canterbury; St.
Honoratus of Buzançais; Bl. Giulia Della Rena; Bl. Antonio Fatati):
http://tinyurl.com/7khwx3l
Further to Marcellus of Ancona:
In
that earlier post, the view of the terracotta statue of Marcellus is
available to those with access to Google Books. In this case the book
is Bruce Boucher, _Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from
Donatello to Canova_ (Yale Univ. Pr., 2001) and the illustration is on
p. 3.
Further to Hadrian of Canterbury:
For that awful satellite view of Nisida please substitute the aerial view here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenpixel/2223005747/
9. January is also the feast day of:
Eustratius
the Thaumaturge (d. earlier 9th cent.). We know about this victim of
Byzantine second iconoclasm chiefly from his Bios (BHG 645) and from one
of the latter's primary sources, the Bios of St. Joannicius the Great
by the monk Sabas (BHG 935). A native of the Tarsia in Bithynia, at the
age of twenty he entered the monastery of the Agauroi on the Bithynian
Mt. Olympus. There he became close friends with Joannicius and later
succeeded his own uncle Gregory as hegumen. In the reign of Leo V he
was exiled from the monastery in a purge of iconophiles. After that
emperor's assassination in 820 Eustratius returned but not, it would
seem, as hegumen. By the time he died a little short of the age of one
hundred he was credited with miracles; his cult was immediate. Thus far
his Bios.
Best,
John Dillon
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