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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 24. March (including Sts. Timolaus, Dionysius, Paesis, Romulus, Alexander, another Alexander, Agapius, and another Dionysius; Hildelith; John of the Staff; Catherine of Sweden):
http://tinyurl.com/774qmog
Further to Timolaus, Dionysius, Paesis, Romulus, Alexander, another Alexander, Agapius, and another Dionysius:
Orthodox churches celebrate this group on 15. March under the heading 'Agapius and those with him'.
The martyrdom of Agapius and those with him as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century March calendar fresco (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Graèanica 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/623funo
Further to Catherine (Katarina) of Sweden:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'C.'s relics are kept along with those of her mother in the latter's shrine at Vadstena.' please read 'C.'s putative relics are kept along those traditionally believed to be her mother's in the latter's shrine at Vadstena. The skull long thought to be Birgitta's is too old to have been hers, while the skull traditionally thought to be Catherine's is too young to have been hers.' See (e.g.):
http://tinyurl.com/38mlezs
In the same notice, the second of the two links to views of different statues of Catherine said to be by Håkan Gulleson no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7zynbdy
Today (24. March) is also the feast day of:
Mac Caorthainn of Clogher (d. 5th cent.?). This saint (there is also a Mac Caorthainn of Coolcor), whose name has been anglicized as Macartan and latinized as Maccarthennus, is the fairly legendary protobishop and patron of the diocese of Clogher in today's County Tyrone. Traditionally associated with St. Patrick, who is said to have established him in his see and to have given him relics, he has a brief and incompletely preserved Vita that clearly postdates the erection of the Irish dioceses at the synod of Rathbrassil in 1111 (BHL 5105; two versions).
The Irish relic known as the Domhnach Airgid (an early medieval gospels with three successive covers; kept in the National Museum of Ireland) was by the later Middle Ages thought to have been given by Patrick to Mac Caorthainn. In particular this scene, on the relic's mid-fourteenth-century upper cover of silver plated with gold, of a bishop presenting another ecclesiastic with what seems to be a book reliquary (a _cumdach_) is often interpreted as portraying Patrick giving this particular relic to Mac Caorthainn of Clogher:
http://tinyurl.com/764mvnd
A view of the cover with that scene at lower left:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monceau/6425707879/lightbox/
Best,
John Dillon
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