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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 21. March (including St. Beryllus; the Martyrs of Alexandria under Constans I; St. Serapion of Thmuis; St. Lupicinus of the Jura; St. Enda; St. John of Valence; St. Nicholas of Flüe):
http://tinyurl.com/7q586ac
Further to Lupicinus of the Jura:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a distance view of the originally twelfth-century église Notre-Dame at Saint-Lupicin (dépt. du Jura) no longer functions. Use these instead:
http://www.aricia.fr/jura-patrimoine/saint-lupicin.htm
http://tinyurl.com/7e73oor
Today (21. March) is also the feast day of:
James the Confessor (d. earlier 9th cent.). Greek synaxary notices under today and under 24. March record a James who had been a bishop, became an hermit, and late in life resumed his episcopal dignity. Greek menaia transmit under today a canon in this saint's honor that seems to have been written by Ignatius the Deacon (d. ca. 847) and that praises him both for his eremitical life and for his struggles against iconoclastic persecution. That prominent organizer of resistance to Byzantine second iconoclasm, St. Theodore the Stoudite, is the author of three letters addressed to an anti-iconoclast monk named James whom he calls 'confessor' (_Epp._ 189, 328, 466) and of another referring to such a person (_Ep._ 462). Traditional accounts of today's saint, relying upon a presumed identity of the James of each of these letters, make him a Stoudite monk as well as a bishop. Modern scholarship tends to distinguish between the Stoudite but not explicitly episcopal James of _Epp._ 189 and 328 and the episcopal but not explicitly Stoudite James of _Epp._ 462 and 466.
In 1995 Stephanos Efthymiadis argued fairly persuasively (_REB_ 53, pp. 146-48) that today's saint is the James of _Epp._ 462 and 466 and identifies him with the former bishop of Anchialos in Thrace whom the Bioi of Sts. Peter of Atroa and Anthony the Younger say retired to the Bithynian Mt. Olympus where he lived as an ascetic, fought on behalf of the icons, and served as a spiritual adviser to the saints just mentioned.
Best,
John Dillon
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