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Thank you, John, for the clarification of the veneration of the little-known
dog-headed saint, Toto.
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Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the day (February 6): St. Dorothy,
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Dorothea of Caesarea in Cappadocia (the Wikipedia article's "Caesarea
Mazaca" is a modern retronym for today's Kayseri in Turkey, clumsily putting
together -- in reverse chronological order -- two individual names borne by
the city at different times in its history) shares the essential aspects of
her legend with the earlier attested Dorothea of Alexandria in Egypt, about
whom one first hears in Rufinus' early fifth-century additions to Eusebius'
_Historia ecclesiastica_. But there is no evidence for that Dorothea's ever
having enjoyed a recognized cult, whereas a Dorothea of Caesarea in
Cappadocia does appear in the late sixth- or early seventh-century
(pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology. Either Rufinus erred in his localization
of the virgin martyr Dorothea or else the latter's legend was transferred to
Dorothea of Caesarea in Cappadocia at some point prior to its appearance in
St. Aldhelm's late seventh- or very early eighth-century prose _De
virginitate_.
We have no evidence at all for the date of Dorothea of Caesarea's martyrdom:
the Wikipedia article's fixing her death after Diocletian's resignation
derives from Rufinus' ascription of Dorothea of Alexandria's suffering to
the reign of Maximinus. On the other hand, Dorothea of Caesarea in
Cappadocia's entry in the (ps.-)HM seems to have furnished the legend with
its secondary martyr Theophilus Scholasticus, as he's absent from Rufinus'
account of Dorothea of Alexandria. The apples and the roses (later and more
generically, flowers) that become Dorothea's characteristic attribute make
their first appearance in the ninth-century martyrology of St. Rabanus
Maurus and the six-year-old boy whom brings them to Theophilus makes his
first appearance in the also ninth-century martyrology of St. Ado of Vienne.
The basket containing these gifts is an even later development. The basket
containing the dog Toto belongs to another Dorothy altogether.
Some medieval images of Dorothea of Caesarea in Cappadocia:
a) Dorothea as depicted in the early twelfth-century mosaics of Grado's four
female saints in the cupola di San Leonardo of the basilica cattedrale di
San Marco in Venice:
http://tinyurl.com/kq7eyjv
b) Dorothea (at right; on the wing at left, St. Mary Magdalene) as depicted
by Ambrogio Lorenzetti on a wing of an earlier fourteenth-century triptych
(ca. 1325) in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena:
http://www.wga.hu/art/l/lorenzet/ambrogio/1triptyc.jpg
c) Dorothea as portrayed in an early fifteenth-century limewood statue with
traces of polychrome (ca. 1410-1420) in the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria in
Budapest:
http://www.wga.hu/art/m/master/zunk_hu/zunk_hu2/06doroth.jpg
d) Dorothea at left (at right, St. Catherine of Alexandria) as depicted by
the Master of the Darmstadt Passion in an earlier fifteenth-century panel
painting (ca. 1440) in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon (in a late medieval
interpretation reflected here the boy who serves as Dorothy's messenger is
the young Jesus):
http://tinyurl.com/mtfmgex
e) Dorothea's hand holding a basket as portrayed on a fifteenth-century arm
reliquary in the treasury of the Catedral Primada Santa María in Toledo:
http://tinyurl.com/n5sqd6h
f) Dorothea as depicted in a fifteenth-century fresco on the apsidal arch of
the chiesa di San Giacomo in Urtijëi (BZ) in the South Tirol's Val Gardena:
http://tinyurl.com/mw5ehhb
g) Dorothea as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century glass window of upper
Rhine origin in the Musée national du Moyen Age (Musée de Cluny) in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/k24zoa8
h) Dorothea as depicted in a later fifteenth-century fresco in the now
deconsecrated church of San Pietro at Carpignano Sesia (NO) in Piedmont:
http://tinyurl.com/pn65ul8
i) Dorothea as depicted in a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century book of hours
for the Use of Sarum (Riom, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 76, fol. 37v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_080691-p
.jpg
j) Dorothea as portrayed in an originally polychromed limewood statue of ca.
1500 from Arlesheim (Kanton Basel) now in the Historisches Museum Basel:
http://tinyurl.com/n92hja6
k) Dorothea as portrayed by Andrea della Robbia in a terra cotta statue of
ca. 1500 in the Bode Museum in Berlin:
http://tinyurl.com/lw49ymt
l) Dorothea as depicted in an early sixteenth-century wall painting (ca.
1510) in Nibe kirke, Nibe (Aalborg Kommune) in Nordjylland:
http://tinyurl.com/lfs9tzu
Best,
John Dillon
On 02/06/15, Matt Heintzelman wrote:
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> Saint Dorothy (Dorothea, Dora; Italian: Santa Dorotea, Spanish: Santa
Dorotea; died ca. 311) is a 4th-century virgin martyr who was executed at
Caesarea Mazaca. Evidence for her actual historical existence or acta is
very sparse. She is called a martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution,
although her death occurred after the resignation of Diocletian himself. She
should not be confused with another 4th-century saint, Dorothea of
Alexandria.
> She and Theophilus are mentioned in the Roman Martyrology as martyrs of
Caesarea in Cappadocia, with a feast day on 6 February. She is thus
officially recognized as a saint, but because there is scarcely any
non-legendary knowledge about her, she is no longer (since 1969) included in
the General Roman Calendar. (Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_of_Caesarea(http://l.facebook.com/l.ph
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> Matt H.
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