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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 26. September (including St. Senator of Albano Laziale; Sts. Cosmas and Damian; Bl. Stephen of Rossano; St. Nilus of Rossano):
http://tinyurl.com/9xfmzjz
Further to Senator of Albano Laziale:
A revised set of visuals for this saint:
Two illustrated, Italian-pages on the catacomba di San Senatore in Albano Laziale (RM):
http://www.romasotterranea.it/catacombadissenatore.html
http://tinyurl.com/23rxwq7
A multi-page, illustrated, Italian-language site on the complex begins here:
http://tinyurl.com/6a3gjg
Views of an eleventh-century fresco showing Christ between the Theotokos and St. Smaragdus (of Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus; 8. August):
http://tinyurl.com/2vdc7qt
http://tinyurl.com/c64lab5
http://tinyurl.com/bmb8jp5
http://tinyurl.com/cvlnstl
Note the latinized Greek in the legend over the portrait of the Theotokos.
A partial view of a much earlier fresco on the wall to the left of the one with Christ and the Theotokos:
http://www.lazio-directory.org/albanolaziale/catacomba1.jpg
Other views of that fresco, whose figures flanking Christ are thought to depict donors (the two outermost figures) and the local saints Secundus, Carpophorus, Victorinus, and Severianus (whose feast on 8. August presumably will have led to Smaragdus' also being honored in this cemetery):
http://tinyurl.com/29gnkrx
http://tinyurl.com/cknawco
A face in another partly preserved fresco:
http://tinyurl.com/9putm4e
Further to Cosmas and Damian:
In the first paragraph of that earlier post's notice of these saints, in the first sentence please delete the parenthesis '(their region of origin is variously reported)' and add a new second sentence: 'Although their region of origin is variously reported, the preponderance of modern scholarly opinion appears to favor Cyrrhus (also Cyrus) in Syria; another candidate is Aegae and vicinity in Cilicia, at which latter they had by the sixth century a famous cult center at which healing miracles reportedly occurred during incubation.'
A revised set of visuals for Cosmas and Damian:
The originally sixth-century stational church of Santi Cosma e Damiano on Rome's Via dei Fori Imperiali. Created for pope St. Felix IV (III) in the temple of Romulus (Maxentius' son, not the legendary founder and brother of Remus) and in an adjacent structure belonging to the Forum Pacis, it is particularly noteworthy for its sixth-century apse mosaic.
The Sacred Destinations main page on this church:
http://tinyurl.com/oywcz
Floor plan:
http://tinyurl.com/njfs2
Satellite view of the church (center), with the round Roman temple on the south side. The major road to the north is Via dei Fori Imperiali and the large structure to the viewer's right (east) is the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine:
http://tinyurl.com/onshr
The apse mosaic:
http://tinyurl.com/qczvx
http://tinyurl.com/ycj6tn6
http://tinyurl.com/yd882fh
Expandable view of St. Felix holding a model of the church; St. Paul introducing Cosmas or Damian:
http://tinyurl.com/me62b
The mosaic over the triumphal arch:
http://tinyurl.com/yatzydo
http://tinyurl.com/y9hptkr
http://tinyurl.com/yetd7s4
Multiple views:
http://tinyurl.com/jmx2c
http://tinyurl.com/fdugd
OTHER DEDICATIONS:
a) Remains of the originally sixth-century Justinianic crkva Sv. Kuzme i Damjana at Barbat on the island of Rab (Primorje-Gorski county) in Croatia:
http://www.tzg-rab.hr/eng/rab/utvrda-sv-kuzme-damjana.php
http://ineco.posluh.hr/pgz/rab/barbat01v.jpg
b) Remains of the church of Cosmas and Damian at Jarash (Jerash; anciently Gerasa) in Jordan, with a mosaic floor dated 553:
http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/jordan/jerash/0978.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/y93axtc
http://tinyurl.com/ycgt7zd
http://tinyurl.com/29fr9hz
http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/jordan/jerash/0981.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/yc65el5
http://galenf.com/graphics/jordan44.jpg
c) The originally tenth-century entrance to the monastery of San Cosimato at Rome:
http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi151f.jpg
d) The originally eleventh-century church of Ag. Anargyroi in Kastoria (Kastoria prefecture) in northwestern Greece:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nones/5020283509/
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2616/3754950501_18cf62ac9b_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2509/3755841064_da53edc9cc_b.jpg
A set of expandable exterior views, including one of the worn exterior fresco of Cosmas and Damian, occurs on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/6ky6ymf
An illustrated, English-language account concentrating on this church's late twelfth-century frescoes:
http://tinyurl.com/y8z6tt5
e) Views of the originally eleventh-century chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano in Genoa:
http://tinyurl.com/f5ctz
f) The originally eleventh- or twelfth-century crkva Sv. Kuzme i Damjana at Zablaće in the town of Blato on the island of Korčula (Dubrovnik-Neretva county) in Croatia:
http://tinyurl.com/2atac2x
http://crkve.prizba.net/images/kuzma1.jpg
http://crkve.prizba.net/images/kuzma2.jpg
g) The remains of the originally late eleventh- and twelfth-century church and other buildings of the prieuré Saint-Cosme at La Riche (Indre-et-Loire), just west of Tours:
http://tinyurl.com/29yk35e
http://tourainissime.blogspot.com/2009/12/la-riche.html
http://monumental.over-blog.net/article-20685889.html
http://tinyurl.com/39wuj3m
Single views:
http://tinyurl.com/2bt3jsq
http://tinyurl.com/28u49p8
http://tinyurl.com/2fg6ho6
An aerial view of the excavations of the site's originally late ninth- /early tenth-century monastic structures:
http://tinyurl.com/32ojrnk
h) The twelfth-century crypt of Sts. Cosmas and Damian in the church of St. Wenceslas (Václav) at Stará Boleslav (German: Altbunzlau), now part of Brandýs nad Labem - Stará Boleslav in the Czech Republic:
http://tinyurl.com/9dhva7e
In 922 St. Wenceslas (Václav) was murdered before the door of an oratory on this site that also was dedicated to Cosmas and Damian.
i) The rebuilt but originally thirteenth-century oratorio dei Santi Cosma e Damiano at Arsago Seprio (VA) in Lombardy:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/renzodionigi/2339630155/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/renzodionigi/2518426124/
j) The originally thirteenth-century church of Ag. Anargyroi at the village of Kipoula in Anatoliki Mani (Lakonia prefecture) on the Peloponnese, frescoed in 1265:
http://www.zorbas.de/maniguide/scans/kip1.jpg
This church's portraits of its titulars Cosmas and Damian:
http://www.zorbas.de/maniguide/scans/kip2.jpg
The same church's fresco of the baptism of Jesus:
http://www.zorbas.de/maniguide/scans/kip3.jpg
k) The originally thirteenth-century Church of Sts Cosmas and Damian in Challock (Kent), restored in the 1950s after serious damage in World War II:
http://tinyurl.com/c8yzpfm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lysander2/3540009386/lightbox/
http://www.beechcourtgardens.co.uk/challock-church.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lysander2/3539197865/lightbox/
http://www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Challock
l) The originally fifteenth-century crkva svetog Kuzme i Damjana at Fažana (Istria county) in Croatia:
http://tinyurl.com/3a2mtwv
http://tinyurl.com/ybn8nxu
OTHER PORTRAYALS:
a) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (flanking, in the upper register, the three boys in the fiery furnace and, in the lower register, their own three martyred brothers Leontius, Euprepius, and Anthimus) in a sixth-century wall painting from a house in Wadi Sarga in Egypt, now in the British Museum in London:
http://tinyurl.com/34c2joy
http://tinyurl.com/3zthgpf
b) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613):
http://www.br-faksimile.de/Menologion2.jpg
c) Cosmas as depicted in an earlier eleventh-century mosaic (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/3wtm7uc
d) The eleventh-century book cover of the Gospels of Theophanu of Essen (1029-ca. 1058), showing, beneath Sts. Peter and Paul, Cosmas and Damian (the patron saints of the monastery founded there in the ninth century by St. Altfrid of Hildesheim):
http://www.bodarwe.de/buch.jpg
Later Cosmas and Damian became patrons of the city of Essen as well.
e) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the mid- to slightly later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
Cosmas:
http://tinyurl.com/39crtv7
Damian:
http://tinyurl.com/34usy6e
f) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in a later twelfth- or very early thirteenth-century fresco in the narthex of the originally early twelfth-century church of the Panagia Phorbiotissa at Asinou near Nikitari in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/89173218/De-Agostini
A full-length but distance view will be found in the panorama of the frescoes in the narthex accessible from this page:
http://cyprus.arounder.com/
g) The martyrdom of Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century drawing (ca. 1230) by Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 19093, fol. 27r):
http://tinyurl.com/9lkhpmj
h) Damian as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (1259) in the church of Sts. Nicholas and Panteleimon at Boyana near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia:
http://galenf.com/Bulgaria/36/bu_0017a.jpg
i) Cosmas and Damian (at left) as depicted in one of the later thirteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1270 and 1285) devoted to them in the diakonikon of the St. Demetrius cathedral at Mistra:
http://tinyurl.com/2fqagcg
j) An expandable view of Cosmas and Damian attaching the black leg of an Ethiopian to a white man whose diseased leg they had removed, as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 132r):
http://tinyurl.com/3cjxvl5
k) Cosmas (at left) and Damian 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/3u9c8dk
http://tinyurl.com/6eshpzr
l) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the frescoes of ca. 1300 (or, perhaps, ca. 1290) attributed to Manuel Panselinos in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
Cosmas:
http://tinyurl.com/yebrpe4
http://tinyurl.com/y88xs4f
Damian:
http://tinyurl.com/y8wy7b4
http://tinyurl.com/2bye89k
m) Cosmas and Damian (at left) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) of one of the domes of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/2wsvm8t
n) Cosmas as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1313 and ca. 1320) of the nave of the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/yc5stwe
o) Cosmas (center) and Damian (at right) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7w8vlra
Detail view (Cosmas):
http://tinyurl.com/7ol6t3e
p) Cosmas and Damian (busts; Cosmas at left) as depicted elsewhere in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7gebhof
http://tinyurl.com/7w8vlra
q) Cosmas as depicted in a calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7tcktbs
r) Cosmas and Damian (at left) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1317 and 1324) of the church of St. Demetrius in the Patriarchate of 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/3akweqn
Detail view (Cosmas):
http://tinyurl.com/26gkcn5
Detail view (Damian):
http://tinyurl.com/2a5a6pq
s) A partial view of Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) of the church of the Holy Savior (Sv. Spas) at Kuceviste in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3kv3ygt
Detail (C., full-length):
http://tinyurl.com/3max6q4
t) Cosmas and Damian (at left and center; at right, St. Panteleimon) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century (1330s) frescoes of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of 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/3jgsftt
Detail view (Cosmas):
http://tinyurl.com/3mvhn47
Detail view (Damian):
http://tinyurl.com/3ud7jap
u) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in September calendar portraits in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the narthex in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/yflqj7y
v) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in two joint portraits in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the nave in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/37dfvns
AND
http://tinyurl.com/342o797
http://tinyurl.com/3ywlm9w
w) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the chapel of St. Demetrius in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/82zvmvo
Detail view (Cosmas):
http://tinyurl.com/6pwhwm2
Detail view (Damian [at right]):
http://tinyurl.com/7vmhzmj
x) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language collection of saint's Lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 227v; illuminations attributed to the Fauvel Master):
http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63(http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63%29)(http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63%28http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63%29%29)(http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63%28http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63%29%29%28http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63%28http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63%29%29%29)
y) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (1348) of Jean de Vignay's French-language translation of the _Legenda aurea_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 258r):
http://tinyurl.com/276u33e
z) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in a later fourteenth-century fresco (1371?) in a niche in the katholikon of the Vatopedi monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3zlqvxo
aa) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in a later fourteenth-century (before 1398) Hours for the Use of Besançon (Vesoul, Bibliothèque municipale, fol. 119r):
http://tinyurl.com/ycm6r7l
bb) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an early fifteenth-century (ca. 1414) breviary for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, fol. 343v):
http://tinyurl.com/y8qvtr6
cc) Cosmas and Damian as portrayed as portrayed in an earlier fifteenth-century terracotta relief (betw. 1428 and 1445) by Donatello in the old sacristy of Florence's basilica di San Lorenzo:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/sacristy/1sacri08.jpg
dd) An expandable view of Cosmas and Damian being saved from drowning as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1435) by Zanobi Strozzi now in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/3lwne9y
ee) Expandable views of three earlier fifteenth-century paintings (betw. 1438 and 1440) by Beato Angelico with scenes of Cosmas and Damian for his now dismembered San Marco altarpiece will be found on this page (a little more than halfway down):
http://www.artunframed.com/angelico.htm
Expandable views of these and of five other surviving predella panels with scenes of Cosmas and Damian by Beato Angelico for the same altarpiece are here:
http://tinyurl.com/3cmj3wc
ff) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century icon in the Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Art in Moscow:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=505
gg) Cosmas and Damian attaching the black leg of the Ethiopian to the sick white man as depicted by the Master of Los Balbases in a later fifteenth-century panel painting seemingly from Burgos and now in the Wellcome Library, London:
http://nicholasspyer.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/img_1500.jpg
hh) Damian as depicted in a late fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1490) by Bartolomé Bermejo now in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon:
http://tinyurl.com/8l6tt8w
ii) Cosmas and Damian (lower register, Cosmas at left) as depicted by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (Theophanes the Cretan) in an earlier sixteenth-century fresco (1545 or 1546) in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3my9xsc
OTHER VISUALS:
The shrine of Cosmas and Damian (ca. 1400) in Munich's Michaelskirche:
http://tinyurl.com/kdkwq
Best,
John Dillon
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