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Ooops! Things one once knew but had allowed to slip from memory. Thanks, Herwig.
To reinforce the point, herewith _bullae_ from the pontificates of Martin IV (1281-1285), Clement VI (1342 -1352), Innocent VI (1352 -1362), Gregory XI (1370-1378), and Boniface IX (1389-1404):
Martin IV:
http://tinyurl.com/ol9rq8z
Clement VI:
https://finds.org.uk/images/rwebley/medium/HAMP-A295D7bulla.jpg
Innocent VI:
https://finds.org.uk/images/harpin1/medium/innocent%20vi%20bulla.jpg
Gregory XI:
http://tinyurl.com/pxbm4v8
Boniface IX:
http://tinyurl.com/gomjx2z
READ: ...over the basilica's high altar. Reference to this happy event, so thematically significant for Urban's attempted renewal of the Roman papacy, would become standard in his Italian iconography.
Best again,
JD
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Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (Dec. 19): Bl. Urban V
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Am 19.12.2015 um 12:06 schrieb John Dillon:
> On 1. March 1368 Urban's preparations to say Mass in the papal chapel (the _Sancta Sanctorum_) of the Lateran basilica led to the discovery there of the putative heads (cranial fragments) of Sts. Peter and Paul, which latter he then had placed in new reliquaries; on 15. April 1370 these were enshrined in a newly built ciborium over the basilica's high altar. Urban commemorated this happy event, so thematically significant for his renewal of the Roman papacy, on at least one of his seals; reference to it would become standard in his Italian iconography.
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> A seal bearing the images of St. Peter (at right) and St. Paul (at left):
> http://tinyurl.com/yendt2x
this image, of course, shows the standard iconography of the papal lead
bulls appearing in the 11th c. long before the happy event, becoming the
norm in the early 12th c. and remaining so (only changing in artistic
style).
Best, Herwig Weigl
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