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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 7. March (including Sts. Perpetua and Felicity; Sts. Satyrus, Saturninus, Revocatus, and Secundinus; St. Eubulus of Caesarea; St. Paul the Simple; St. Gaudiosus of Brescia; St. Ardo of Aniane; Bl. Reinhard of Reinhausen):
http://tinyurl.com/7v68p5g
Further to Perpetua and Felicity:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the final sentence of the second paragraph was badly garbled. Read instead:
On the other hand, they are perfectly willing to accept from the Acta the datum that the town -- unnamed in the Passio -- from which P., F., and the others arrested with them came was Thuburbo Minus (in the view of some, "Thuburbo" -- both Maius and Minus -- should really be spelled "Thuburdo").
In the same notice, the comment in the sixth paragraph about clearly identifiable images of the portraits of Perpetua and Felicity in the Cappella arcivescovile in Ravenna not being available on the Web is no longer valid. Images of these two portraits occur here in a context identifying the portraits' location in Ravenna:
http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/africa/martiri/perpetua.html
and a smaller view of them, showing their gold backgrounds and their identifying inscriptions, is here (the saint at top is Daria):
http://tinyurl.com/66ufl88
Add this view of the fourth-century Christian sarcophagus from Quintanabureba (Burgos) now in the Museo de Burgos portraying the scene from these saints' Passio in which Perpetua envisions herself ascending to heaven on a ladder:
http://tinyurl.com/77kt3ze
Add this view of a fourteenth-century altar frontal, of Catalan manufacture and portraying Perpetua and scenes from these saints' Passio, in the Museo Diocesano de Barcelona:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26897070@N05/3665409013/lightbox/
Add these views of the originally later twelfth- and thirteenth-century fortified iglesia de Santa Perpètua in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda (Barcelona):
http://www.poblesdecatalunya.cat/element.php?e=6012
http://tinyurl.com/7ewjd94
http://tinyurl.com/76ljwmn
Further to Paul the Simple:
To that earlier post's notice of this saint, add this link to Paul the Simple (at right; at left, St. Theodore the Stoudite) as depicted in the late thirteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1295) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv. Climent Novi) in Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/8xjleuk
Detail views (Paul the Simple):
http://tinyurl.com/7njvl56
http://tinyurl.com/cdkj853
http://tinyurl.com/bm8s9gz
Also add this link to Paul the Simple (lower register at right; at left, St. Ammonas of Nitria) as depicted in an October calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and ca. 1321/1322 in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/77up4k5
And add this link to Paul the Simple as depicted in the fourteenth-century frescoes of the monastery church of St. Nicholas at Ramaća, a locality of Stragari (Šumadija dist.) in central Serbia (for a slightly better view, click on the image):
http://tinyurl.com/8x5kk58
Today (7. March) is also the feast day of:
John Larke, German (or Jermyn) Gardiner, John Ireland (Bl.; d. 1544). These three ran afoul of Henry VIII for different reasons but were tried together for violations of the Act of Supremacy, were convicted, and were executed together on this day. Larke, who had been St. Thomas More's parish priest, is said to have been inspired by the latter's behavior to oppose Henry's claim to be head of the church in England. The layman Gardiner, who had been secretary to Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester, and who is said to have been a close relative of that worthy, was a canon lawyer who wrote against the supremacy but whose downfall was the direct result of his significant involvement in the Prebendaries' Plot against Cranmer. Little is known about Ireland other than that he was a priest. Larke and Gardiner were beatified in 1886; Ireland was beatified in 1929.
Best,
John Dillon
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