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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 6. May (including St. John before the Latin Gate; Sts. Marian and James; St. Venerius of Milan; St. Eadbert; St. Petronax; Bl. Markward of Wilten; and St. Peter Nolasco):
http://tinyurl.com/brwjoj2
Further to John before the Latin Gate:
In that earlier post's notice of this feast, the link to the Italian-language page on Rome's chiesa di San Giovanni a Porta Latina no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.romasegreta.it/s.giovanni-a-porta-latina.html
Links to two late medieval depictions in stained glass of John before the Latin Gate are here (photographs and text courtesy of Gordon Plumb):
http://tinyurl.com/82a9pnp
John before the Latin Gate as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century blockbook Apocalypse of Netherlandic origin (University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections, MS Hunterian Ds.2.3, plate 3):
http://tinyurl.com/7hb4arq
John before the Latin Gate as depicted by Hans Fries in an earlier sixteenth-century panel painting (1514) now in the Kunstmuseum in Basel:
http://tinyurl.com/bofe7o7
Further to Marian and James:
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the second link to a view of the building at the former legionary headquarters at Lambaesis / Lambesa no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.livius.org/a/algeria/lambaesis/lambaesis.JPG
Further views of this structure and of other Roman ruins at Lambesa are here:
http://www.ermaktravel.com/Africa/Algeria/Lambaesis/Lambaesis.htm
An aerial view of the site:
http://tinyurl.com/7h9cxvq
A problematic inscription cut into a rock at Cirta in late antiquity (_CIL_ VIII, 7294) speaks of the celebration on 2. September of the suffering of Marian, James, and another nine saints (none bearing the names of the other martyrs in the Passio of Marian and James), all of whom are characterized as _marturorum Hortensium_. The significance of _Hortensium_ is not clear and 2. September is not otherwise recorded as a feast day for Marian and James. Here's a view of the inscription:
http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/africa/martiri/images/rummel.jpg
In the same notice of these saints, the first of the links to exterior views of Gubbio's cattedrale dei Santi Mariano e Giacomo no longer functions. Use these instead:
http://tinyurl.com/6sqflmg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitto_75/2854842515/lightbox/
Two panel paintings of ca. 1348 by Mello da Gubbio depicting 1) Marianus, James, and other clerics being escorted into a walled city by soldiers and 2) Marianus' torture at Cirta (in the Passio he is said to have been hung up by his thumbs) were in Gubbio's cathedral in 1844 and are now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, where they flank another panel painting from the same set but depicting the Crucifixion. Herewith some views:
http://tinyurl.com/79afozj
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/LowRes2/TR1/0TPTBI/09-519887.jpg
http://mban.nancy.fr/typo3temp/pics/40873da1f2.jpg
http://storage.canalblog.com/47/51/809028/60400426.jpg
Further to Peter Nolasco:
Peter's day of commemoration in the RM prior to 2001 fell in late January. The revised RM of 2001 moved it to 25. December, one of the candidates for his _dies natalis_. Another candidate for that is 6. May, the day on which the Mercedarians honor him with a Solemnity.
Best,
John Dillon
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