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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 15. January (including Sts. Secundina; Ephysius; John the Calybite; Maurus, abbot in France; and Arsenius of Armo):
http://tinyurl.com/6s3gpca
In that earlier post's notice of Ephysius, the link to the small image showing the battle scene following the one of Ephysius and the angel no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/8y33bjn
In that same notice, the second link to press accounts of the use of a bacterium in these scenes' restoration no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7oyv7yt
A more recent account of the use of this technique:
http://tinyurl.com/86bwdux
In the earlier post's notice of John the Calybite, the first link to views of the remains of the rupestrian monastery dedicated to him at Caloveto (CS) in Calabria no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/4wfdrcp
And here's a page of expandable views of the perhaps originally fourteenth-century chiesa di San Giovanni Calibita in the same town:
http://www.artesacrarossano.it/eng/details_church.php?IDc=18
In that same notice, add to the view of John the Calybite and Alexius / Alexis of Rome as depicted in the earlier twelfth-century frescoes (1230s) of the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje in Serbia this larger view of that panel:
http://tinyurl.com/7tt5rt6
and this detail view of its image of John the Calybite:
http://tinyurl.com/6tavfpg
In that same notice, the image of John the Calybite in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes of the church of the Holy Ascension in the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć is in the chapel (parecclesion) of St. Demetrius (structurally part of the nave).
Further images of John the Calybite:
John the Calybite (at right; at left, St. Alexius / Alexis of Rome) as depicted in an eleventh-century fresco in the church of Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis at Kakopetria (Nikosia prefecture) in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://tinyurl.com/65punyd
http://tinyurl.com/6jngeur
John the Calybite as depicted in a thirteenth-century fresco in the rupestrian church of St. Michael the Archangel at Radožda (Struga municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7nfh3ob
John the Calybite as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (1259) in the church of Sts. Nicholas and Panteleimon at Boyana near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia:
http://galenf.com/Bulgaria/36/bu_0001x.jpg
John the Calybite as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7j27reo
John the Calybite as depicted in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545 and 1546) by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3mlmcfc
In the earlier post's notice of Maurus, abbot in France, the file of extracts from charters pertaining to Glanfeuil is no longer up on the Regnum Francorum site.
In that same post, the link previously given for Maurus depicted as a mitred abbot as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7httzr5
15. January is also the feast day of:
Ita of Limerick (d. 570 or 577). Ita (in Latin, also Itta, Mida; in her native Irish, Íte and Íde or, familiarly, M'Íde). The saint of today's Killeedy (from the Irish Cell Íte, Cill Íde), where she was held to have founded a religious house for women, she seems to have been the patron saint of a local dynasty who were conquered by the Uí Chonaill; the latter adopted her and spread her cult throughout their lands in Limerick. Ita has two major Vitae (BHL 4497 and 4498), both quite legendary and both derived from a lost, probably eleventh-century predecessor. She was revered as the fosterer of Brendan and other major Irish saints; her maternal construction extends even farther in the late ninth-century Old Irish poem _Ísucán_, of which she is the speaker and where she presents herself as fostering the infant Jesus. The Martyrology of St. Oengus, which preserves the poem and which records her feast on this day, calls her the 'white sun of the women of Munster'.
For those with access to Google Books, a text and an English-language translation of _Ísucán_ is here, preceded by an anecdote involving a huge beetle that was devouring the saint from within and so making her quite ill (Seamus Deane et al., eds., _The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing_ [Lawrence Hill, Derry: Field Day Publications, 1991], vol. 4, pp. 80-81):
http://tinyurl.com/7vgz7wl
Ita's monastery fairly soon became a house for men. It declined in the wake of post-conquest Norman settlement. The ruinous remnant of a church on its site at Killeedy (now a cemetery) is called St. Ita's Old Church. Herewith a couple of views (the second seemingly somewhat older):
http://tinyurl.com/79xjty3
http://tinyurl.com/7cb57rv
Best,
John Dillon
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