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Herewith a link to an earlier (2011) 'Feasts and saints of the day' for 24. July (including St. Christina of Bolsena; St. Victorinus of Amiternum):
http://tinyurl.com/bmbbueu

Herewith a link to another earlier (also 2011) 'Feasts and saints of the day' for 24. July (including the Three Magi; St. Fantinus the Elder; St. Sigolena; Sts. Boris and Gleb; St. Baldwin of Rieti; Bl. Christina the Astonishing; St. Kinga):
http://tinyurl.com/casdbwn


Further to Christina of Bolsena:

In that earlier post's notice of this saint, please replace the link to a view Christina as depicted in the heavily restored mosaics of Ravenna's Sant'Apollinare in Classe with this link to a better one (Christina at far right; photograph courtesy of Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/ApNNorth2.jpg

In the same notice, at the end of the links to various views of the basilica di Santa Cristina at Bolsena add this link to that church's page at Italia nell'Arte Medievale:
http://www.medioevo.org/artemedievale/Pages/Lazio/Bolsena.html

In the same notice, the first two links to illustrated pages on the iglesia de Santa Cristina de Lena at Pola de Lena no longer function (they were both at the now vanished www.1romanico.com). And the final link to 'More views' of that church also no longer functions. For that, please substitute the views in the slide show here:
http://tinyurl.com/ct3tz7v

In the same notice, the link to a view of Christina as depicted in a fifteenth-century fresco in the cappella del Santissimo Sacramento of the basilica di Santa Cristina at Bolsena no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26897070@N05/4019404091/

Inthe same notice, the third link to the views of the église (or chapelle) Sainte-Christine at Valle-di-Campoloro (Haute-Corse) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/bnswaeb
In the same notice, the link to the detail views of the frescoes in this church now takes one to a site to which many more photographs of aspects of ancient and medieval Corsica have been added. The views in question are still there but now they are fairly close to the bottom of the page. 


Further to Victorinus of Amiternum:

In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to the Italian-language account of the catacombe di San Vittorino no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/cpe7p4a

In the same notice, substitute this for the link given there to views of the former Roman spa at Aquae Cotiliae:
http://cittaducale.xoom.it/cutiliam.htm


Further to the Three Magi:

In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the first link to the views of their altar in Milan's basilica di San'Eustorgio no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/d34dyjc

Further updates / corrections to the links to the visuals of the Magi furnished in 'Saints of the day' for 6. January 2010 <http://tinyurl.com/cgzaxav>:

at no. 2, the video from the Museo diocesano in Milan is no longer available through tiscali.it (I haven't looked to see whether it's available elsewhere). at no. 9, the link given no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/arts_of_armenia/highres/061.jpg

at no. 10, the link to the detail view of the Adoration of the Magi on the Altar of Duke Ratchis no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7sxdp2d
That replacement image is from an illustrated, Italian-language Wikipedia page on the altar itself:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altare_del_duca_Rachis

between nos. 10 and 11 add this view (courtesy of Genevra Kornbluth) of the Adoration of the Magi as portrayed (second strip, at far right) on a panel from the ninth(?)-century Werden Casket in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/WerdenCasket.jpg 

at no. 15, for 'illimunations' read 'illuminations'. add to no. 22 these views of the earlier twelfth-century capital of the Dream of the Magi from the cathédrale Saint-Lazare at Autun, now displayed in the latter's chapter house:
http://tinyurl.com/7xrgpgt
http://tinyurl.com/7d2nfj9
http://tinyurl.com/6ur4sts
and this Adoration of the Magi now displayed in the same venue:
http://tinyurl.com/7oacuya
as well as this Adoration of the Magi as portrayed on a capital in the cathédrale Saint-Lazare at Autun:
http://tinyurl.com/7rlfjzj
 between nos. 22 and 23 add these views of the Dream of the Magi as portrayed on an earlier twelfth-century capital (betw. 1130 and 1135) from the cloister of the former abbaye Notre-Dame at Coulombs (Eure-et-Loir) and now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/7fb4vtn
http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/photobank/37.jpg
together with Christopher Crockett's comments here: <http://tinyurl.com/cpx38b6>. between nos. 23 and 24 add this view of the Adoration of the Magi as portrayed in the probably mid-twelfth-century sculptures of the west portal of the basilica abbaziale di San Silvestro at Nonantola (MO) in Emilia-Romagna:
http://tinyurl.com/86z79cs

between nos. 30 and 31, add this view of two Magi scenes as depicted in the late twelfth-century (betw. 1190 and 1200) Leiden Saint Louis Psalter (Leiden, University Library, MS. BPL 76A, fol. 17r):
http://tinyurl.com/3olaoho

at no. 37, the third link no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://mydas.ath.cx/bourgogneromane/EDIFICES/pontaubert.htm at no. 38, the links to the detail views no longer function. Use these instead (and click on the images to expand them):
http://www.thais.it/scultura/sch00554.htm
http://www.thais.it/scultura/sch00555.htm at no. 39, the monastery is at Sopoćani (Raška dist.) in Serbia and the correct link is:
http://tinyurl.com/yeluzoe between nos. 41 and 42 add this expandable view of the Adoration of the Magi as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 17v):
http://tinyurl.com/7opn6pa between nos. 44 and 45 add these views of the Adoration of the Magi as depicted by Duccio di Buoninsegna on a front predella panel of his Maestà (betw. 1308 and 1311) in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Siena:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/maesta/predel_f/pre_f_e.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/76n2u3h at no. 45, the links given for the Magi scenes in the exonarthex of the Chora church no longer function. Use these instead (the first link is to a greatly expandable view of both scenes; the second link is to a better view of just the Magi before Herod):
http://tinyurl.com/6rsh7kf
http://www.lessing-photo.com/p3/120101/12010109.jpg

between nos. 45 and 46, add this view of the Magi as depicted on the earlier fourteenth-century altar frontal from Mosoll now in Barcelona in the Museu Nacional de Art de Catalunya:
http://tinyurl.com/d7cmzwp
The frontal in its entirety:
http://tinyurl.com/bte5prz 

between nos. 46 and 47, add this view of the Dream of the Magi as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century apse frescoes of the basilica di Sant'Abbondio in Como:
http://tinyurl.com/26c8u6z 
and this view of the Adoration of the Magi as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/c3duqsh

at no. 47, the last link for the Bethlehem portal of the collégiale Notre-Dame at Huy leads to an image of the upper portions of its central part. For the portal as a whole, the best I could quickly find is this:
http://www.pays-de-huy.be/bethleem-old2.JPG

between nos. 47 and 48, add this view of the Adoration of the Magi in a Nativity scene in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the dome of the church of the Holy Ascension in the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/84qmxdy
The scene as a whole:
http://tinyurl.com/6nnumyy

at no. 55, the link given no longer functions. Herewith links to views of just some of the Magi scenes in the Bolognini chapel in Bologna's basilica di San Petronio:
a) The Magi see the star and depart [click on the image to expand it]:
http://tinyurl.com/87zhx42
b) The Adoration of the Magi:
http://tinyurl.com/7g87f4v
c) The Magi return by sea [click on the image to expand it]:
http://tinyurl.com/7n3cmnu at no. 61, for 'wall painting' read 'vault painting'. at no. 68, the link to the altar relief of the Adoration of the Magi in the collégiale at Huy no longer functions. Here's a slightly closer view of the altar as whole:
http://excursions.arenval.com/Images%202011/Huy%20002.jpg add after no 68 the Adoration of the Magi as portrayed by Tilman Riemenschneider in a lime-wood relief panel (betw. ca. 1505 and ca. 1510) now in the British Museum:
http://tinyurl.com/7xuos6p

Further to Fantinus the Elder:

In that earlier post's notice of this saint, all three of the links to the visuals no longer function. Smallish views of the excavated remains of his early medieval church at Taureana di Palmi (RC) will be found towards the bottom of this page:
http://www.arteculturafotoin.it/il_tempio_di_san_fantino.html


Further to Sigolena:

In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of what's left of the early medieval crypt at Troclar no longer functions. Four not awfully good views are accessible from this page:
http://pmc.cabot.pagesperso-orange.fr/Troclar/photos.htm

Best,
John Dillon

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