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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 24. February (including St. Evetius; St. Sergius "of Caesarea in Cappadocia"; St. Modestus of Trier; St. Ethelbert of Kent; Bl. Costanzo of Fabriano):
http://tinyurl.com/73ug2oa
Further to Ethelbert of Kent:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of a twelfth-century copy of his written law code no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/asset63522_427-.html
Further to Bl. Costanzo of Fabriano:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint the first three links to views, etc. of Ascoli Piceno's chiesa di San Pietro Martire still function, though they do not appear in the list's Archives as hotlinks. Here they are again:
http://www.erap.it/sanpietromartire/sanpietro_m.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orarossa/3483498992/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atrogu/3442742586/sizes/o/
Today (24. February) is also the feast day, in Orthodox and other Eastern-rite churches, of the First and Second Finding of the Head of St. John the Forerunner. Roman-rite martyrologies from at least the ninth century through to the modern RM prior to its revision of 2001 entered under today a commemoration of the Finding (later, the First Finding) of the Head of John the Baptist. In Greek tradition the First Finding took place in the time of Constantine the Great (306-337). In the Latin tradition represented by the later ninth-century martyrology of Usuard of Saint-Germain the Finding took place in the time of the emperor Marcian (450-457); this corresponds with the customary dates for the Second Finding (either 452 or 453).
Both in Greek tradition and in Usuard the (First) Finding was effected by two monks. These are shown in
a) the depiction of the Finding in the St. John the Forerunner cycle in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the diakonikon of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peæ at Peæ in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/83eevtp
b) the depiction (upper register; lower register, the Entombment of John the Forerunner) of the Finding in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545 and 1546) by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the chapel of St. Nicholas in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/6lgc36s
Best,
John Dillon
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