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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 23. May (including St. Ephebus; St. Desiderius of Langres; St. Spes; Sts. Eutychius and Florentius; St. Honoratus of Subiaco; St. Syagrius of Nice; St. Guibertus of Gembloux):
http://tinyurl.com/d8u5u5r
Further to Desiderius of Langres:
A new set of views of the chapelle Saint-Didier in Langres' ex-église Saint-Didier, now part of the city's Musée d'art et d'histoire (Musée Guy Baillet):
http://tinyurl.com/bp6e8e8
http://tinyurl.com/33tqbq
http://tinyurl.com/d2wgdse
http://tinyurl.com/cgnod8m
Further to Sts. Eutychius and Florentius:
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the second of the links to different views of the abbazia di Sant'Eutizio near Preci (PG) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/dxulwou
Further to Guibertus of Gembloux:
A skull believed to be that of Guibertus preserved in a modern display reliquary in his abbey at Gembloux:
http://tinyurl.com/d7zm5ps
Today (23. May) is also the feast day of:
Michael of Synnada (Michael the Confessor; d. 826). Most of what we know about this prominent victim of Byzantine second iconoclasm comes from his closely posthumous Bios (BHG 2274x). A learned and talented native of the formerly Phrygian city of Synnada on the western edge of the Anatolian plateau (under Diocletian it had been a provincial capital and in Michael's time it was part of the theme of Anatolikon; now it is ªuhut in Turkey's Afyonkarahisar province), he moved as young man to Constantinople. Michael became friendly with St. Theophylact of Nicomedia, who at the time was private secretary to patriarch St. Tarasius, entered religion with Theophylact at a monastery on the Asian side of the Bosporus, and was recalled by Tarasius, who ordained him priest and made him scevophylax of the Great Church. Not long afterward Michael returned to Synnada as its metropolitan. He took part in the Second Council of Nicaea (787) and as a diplomat and orator led an imperial mission to caliph Harun al-Rashid in 806 and another to pope St. Leo III and to Bl. Charlemagne in 811 and 812. A vocal opponent of emperor Leo V's banning of the images in December 814, Michael was deposed and imprisoned in the following year. He remained under guard until the emperor's death in 820 and died in on this day in 826, never having been allowed to reclaim his see. St. Theodore the Stoudite was present at Michael's passing and wrote an account of it (BHG 2275). Michael has a notice in the SynCP; cardinal Baronio entered him in the early RM.
Michael of Synnada (at right, after Sts. Dionysius the Areopagite and Hierotheus of Athens) 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 Ohrid:
http://tinyurl.com/6ck3m8x
Best,
John Dillon
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