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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 25. May (including St. Canio of Atella; St. Dionysius of Milan; St. Zenobius of Florence; St. Aldhelm; St. Bede the Venerable; St. Gregory VII, pope; Bl. Heribert of Knechtsteden):
http://tinyurl.com/cd6fnqn
Further to Aldhelm:
An expandable view of Aldhelm as depicted in an earlier tenth-century copy (ca. 920) of his prose _De virginitate_ (London, BL, Royal MS 7 D.xxiv):
http://tinyurl.com/cvdov52
Add this illustrated, English-language account of the chapel dedicated to Aldhelm on St Aldhelms Head in Dorset:
http://tinyurl.com/ca6sc5d
Add this illustrated, English-language page on Malmesbury Abbey and on its mostly twelfth-century church of St. Mary (now of St. Mary and St. Aldhelm):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmesbury_Abbey
A rather fuller account (not illustrated):
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36532
Other views of this church:
http://tinyurl.com/bpxmae4
http://tinyurl.com/cqy9b4n
http://tinyurl.com/ct5vfqx
http://tinyurl.com/crxx3eu
Further to Bede the Venerable:
In the first paragraph of that earlier post's notice of this saint, mention should also be made of George H. Brown's _A Companion to Bede_ (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009). At the end of that paragraph, add this link to the opening page of a mid-ninth-century copy from Freising of Bede's _De locis sanctis_ (Munich, BSB, Hss., Clm 8369) in which an author/title statement is followed by Bede's verse _sphragis_ from the end of cap. 19 and then by the work's _capitula_):
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00047272/image_5
In the second paragraph of that notice, the link to an early twentieth-century view of Bede's tomb no longer functions. Here's a view that could be as recent as the mid-1950s:
http://ww2.durham.gov.uk/nd/dre/m/00581.jpg
Bede as depicted on the opening folio of a twelfth-century copy of his _Homiliae Evangelii_ (Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 47, fol. 1v):
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/bke/0047/1v/small
Bede as depicted in an initial 'S' in an earlier thirteenth-century copy (ca. 1220) of his _De locis sanctis_ (Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 36, fol. 221r):
http://tinyurl.com/btgge3t
Bede as depicted in an illumination illustrating his prayer _Domine ihesu christe qui septem verba..._ in a later fourteenth-century (ca. 1378-1383) book of prayers of southern French origin (Avignon, Bibliothèque-Médiathèque Municipale Ceccano, ms. 6733, fol. 56r):
http://tinyurl.com/bo7qoec
Further to Gregory VII:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of his sarcophagus at Salerno no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/bnsxcpj
In the same notice, the two links to further views of the cathedral of Sovana no longer function. Add this link to that church's page at Italia nell'Arte Medievale:
http://tinyurl.com/brufsfo
and use this link for further views:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Duomo_%28Sovana%29
Further to Heribert of Knechtsteden:
In that earlier post's notice of this Beatus, strike the matter after the links to the views of the Basilika Sankt Andreas at Knechtsteden and replace it with the following:
An illustrated, German-language account of the abbey and its church:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Knechtsteden
More views are here:
http://tinyurl.com/288lo63
Today (25. May) is also the feast day of:
Leo of Troyes (Leo of Mantenay; d. earlier 6th cent.?). The (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology enters under today _Trecas Leonis monachi_ ('At Troyes, Leo, a monk'). Absent from the martyrologies of Florus of Lyon and St. Ado of Vienne, Leo recurs as follows in the martyrology of Usuard of Saint-Germain: _In territorio Trecasino sancti Leonis confessoris_. The source of Usuard's information that the monastery lay at some distance from Troyes is unknown. One supposes, though, that in the ninth century some monastery in the vicinity of Troyes claimed to be the one in question. Perhaps it was situated at or near today's Saint-Lyé (Aube), whose name is said to be a version of that of our saint (but the eponym of today's Saint-Lyé-la-Forêt [Loiret] in the Beauce is said to have been named Laetus). Local tradition presented in Nicolas Camuzat's seventeenth-century _Promptuarium sacrarum antiquitatum Tricassinae diocesis_ places the monastery at Mantenay-sur-Seine (Aube) and makes Leo its second abbot, having succeeded its founder Romanus when that worthy succeeded St. Remigius as archbishop of Reims. These details and others in a brief and seemingly rather late Vita of Leo (BHL 4843) printed by Camuzat have come under increasing suspicion in the past century, a suspicion that the editors of the revised RM of 2001 extended to Usuard when they abandoned his _In territorio Trecasino_ (reproduced in earlier editions of the RM as _In territorio Tricassino_) and reverted to the (ps.-)HM's _Trecas_. Reliable information about this monk of Troyes or its vicinity appears to be lacking.
A page of expandable exterior views of the eleventh- to fifteenth-century église Saint-Lyé at Saint-Lyé (Aube):
http://tinyurl.com/d3h6vhv
Another exterior view:
http://tinyurl.com/ckaysjs
Best,
John Dillon
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