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Herewith a link to an earlier (2011) 'Feasts and saints of the day' for 2. August (including St. Rutilius; St. Stephen I, pope; St. Centolla; St. Eusebius of Vercelli; St. Serenus of Marseille; St. Betharius of Chartres; St. Peter of Osma):
http://tinyurl.com/c4tm6dr
Further to Stephen I:
In that previous post's notice of this saint, for 'S. with a martyr's palm as depicted in a Roman Missal of ca. 1370 (Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 136, fol. 258v)' please read: 'S. with a martyr's palm as depicted in a later fourteenth-century (ca. 1370) Roman missal of north Italian origin (Avignon, Bibliothèque-Médiathèque Municipale Ceccano, ms. 136, fol. 258v)'.
Further to Eusebius of Vercelli:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the third of the four links to views of the crucifix from ca. 1000 in Vercelli's cattedrale metropolitana di Sant'Eusebio no longer functions.
Further to Peter of Osma:
Add this view of a figured silk cloth of ca. 1100 from al-Andalus found in Peter's tomb in the cathedral of Burgo de Osma and now in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA:
http://tinyurl.com/d6culbk
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of the cathedral of Burgo de Osma's originally late fifteenth-century head reliquary of him no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.escuelacima.com/sanpedrodeosma.html
Today (2. August) is also the feast day of:
Joan of Aza (Bl.; d. late 12th cent.?). Joan of Aza (or an equivalent in a language other than English) is the now-standard ecclesiastical designation for the mother of St. Dominic of Caleruega. According to Bl. Jordan of Saxony, whose earlier thirteenth-century _Libellus de principiis Ordinis Praedicatorum_ offers the first biographical account of the order's founder, Dominic's mother was the sister of an archpriest. Though Jordan does not name Dominic's parents, this defect was remedied later in the thirteenth century by Pedro Ferrando, whose _Legenda sancti Dominici_ (BHL 2216) gives the parents' names as Joan and Felix. Later tradition, not attested before the fifteenth century, supplied her with an ancestry in the noble family of Aza. Various of Dominic's virtues have been ascribed to Joan's influence; she is further said to have multiplied wine miraculously for distribution to the poor and to have died at Caleruega (Dominic's birthplace). Joan's immemorial cult was confirmed papally in 1828 at the level of Beata; her putative relics are in the convent church of San Pablo in Peñafiel (Valladolid).
Best,
John Dillon
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