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Herewith a link to an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 28. October (including Sts. Simon and Jude, apostles; St. Fidelis of Como; Sts. Vincent, Sabina, and Christeta; St. Faro; St. Leodardus):
http://tinyurl.com/9gadcwh
Further to Simon and Jude:
A revised set of visuals for these saints should be forthcoming in the near future. In the interim, most of the links for Simon and Jude in that post from 2010 still function. Gordon Plumb's links from 2011 to further views of Simon in glass are here:
http://tinyurl.com/9o2whl4
Further to Fidelis of Como:
A revised set of views of the oratorio / tempietto di San Fedele / San Fedelino in Novate Mezzola (SO), starting with these illustrated, Italian-language accounts:
http://tinyurl.com/yffe6d4
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio_di_San_Fedele
http://www.gruppoartecultura.it/Percorsi/sanfedelino.htm
Other views:
http://tinyurl.com/9hbshxr
http://tinyurl.com/9bjbhhp
http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/architetture/schede/CO250-00432/
http://www.hikr.org/gallery/photo949030.html
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to the ground plan of Como's basilica di San Fedele no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/9dpdpow
Further to Vincent, Sabina, and Christeta:
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the second and third links to Spanish-language pages on Ávila's basilica de San Vicente no longer function. Use these instead:
http://tinyurl.com/8cs5pgf
http://tinyurl.com/8n7bnv6
Further to Faro:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a page (at enluminures.culture.fr) with expandable views of illuminated pages of a fourteenth-century breviary for the Use of Saint-Faron at Meaux no longer functions in that way. Please use this instead:
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/documentation/enlumine/fr/BM/meaux_002-01.htm
28. October is also the feast day of:
Arsenius I of Serbia (d. 1266). Thought to have been a native of the region of Srem / Syrmia in today's Vojvodina, Arsenius (in Serbian, Arsenije) was archimandrite of the Žiča monastery in today's Kruševica (Raška dist.) in Serbia when, in 1233, he succeeded St. Sava of Serbia as the second archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church. As archbishop he officiated at the coronation of king Stefan Uroš I in 1243 and assisted both in that worthy's foundation of the Sopoćani monastery and in queen St. Helen of Anjou's foundation of the monastery at Gradac. At some point Arsenius moved the archiepiscopal see from Žiča to Peć in today's Kosovo, where he built the monastery church of the Holy Apostles, the initial foundation of what would become the Patriarchate of Peć. A stroke caused him to resign his office in 1263. The Serbian Orthodox Church, which uses a version of the Julian calendar, celebrates Arsenius both on 28. October, his _dies natalis_, and, along with other thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Serbian archbishops and patriarchs, on 30. August. Arsenius has yet to grace the pages of the RM.
In the years just prior to his resignation Arsenius provided the church of the Holy Apostles at Peć with extensive frescoing. Expandable views of his inscription in the apse recording this benefaction will be found on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/92fmxgd
The prothesis of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć is dedicated to Arsenius. Among its earlier fourteenth-century vault frescoes (1330s) are this painting of St. Sava anointing him as his successor:
http://tinyurl.com/9zpqoqd
and this painting of his dormition at Peć:
http://tinyurl.com/9nbtzsn
Arsenius I as depicted in a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century icon in Bulgaria's Rila monastery:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Arsenius_der_Grosse1.jpg
(Although the URL implies that this is a portrait of Arsenius the Great, both the beard and the vestment are wrong for that saint.)
Best,
John Dillon
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