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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture John, The final site in your note below mentioned briefly the Exultet scrolls of S. Italy and stated, 'Fortunately, thanks to a CD-rom created by the Department of Philology and History at the University of Canosa, it is still possible to study or simply admire them together.' I don't recall mention of such a CD in T.F.Kelly's treatise with its extensive bibliography, though it's several years since I read his work. Does anyone have any bibliographic info on this CD or suggestions about tracking down a copy? Many thanks. Stan Metheny ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Dillon" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 11:44 PM Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 11. February (1 of 2) > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Today (11. February) is also the feast day of: > > Secundinus (7th cent.?), venerated at Troia (FG). Well, today was this > less well known saint from the Regno's feast day medievally, as > evidenced by his listing for III id. Feb. in the 13th-century sanctorale > of the former neighboring diocese of Bovino as summarized in 1534 by the > church historian G. P. Ferretti. The website of the Diocese of > Lucera-Troia has neither a calendar nor a listing of its local and/or > patron saints, making it difficult to determine when this local saint is > celebrated liturgically now; according to the _Gazzetta del > Mezziogiorno_, in 2004 he was celebrated on 13. February. > > Troia occupies a spur of the southern Appennines extending into the > northern plain of Puglia. It is said to have been founded (in 1019) by > the East Roman katepan Basil Boioannes** as a fortress defending the > Capitanata against military attack by the area's former master, the > Lombard principality of Benevento. As an habitation it replaced on > approximately the same site the decayed Roman town of Aecae. According > to both the eleventh-century _Historia inventionis corporis sancti > Secundini_ (BHL 7554/55) and S.'s so-called Vita by the later > eleventh-century Cassinese hagiographer Guaifer (BHL 7556; an expansion > of the Inventio), while the town was being rebuilt a sarcophagus bearing > the name of _sanctus et venerabilis Secundinus episcopus_ and noting his > day of death was discovered at Aecae's church of St. Mark by builders > looking for ancient spolia. Within was a marble urn containing the > remains of the aforementioned saintly person. These were wrapped in a > clean shroud and brought into the new city; placed temporarily in the > church of the Holy Cross they were, after a miracle that overcame > episcopal reluctance, brought into Troia's cathedral. > > Guaifer, whose _Vita sancti Secundini_ is an important document for the > medieval valorization of classical antiquity (old Troy vs. new, and so > forth), was also a poet. We have two poems from him on S.: a longish > praise piece in elegiac distichs transmitted with the Vita and a brief > hymn in the sapphic strophe. These are nos. IV and V in the PL edition > of Guaifer's _Carmina_ (vol. 147, cols. 1289-91). > > S.'s sarcophagus survives; it's now in the Museo Civico di Troia. Said > now to be of the seventh century (but its inscription has also been > dated to the fifth or sixth century), it is shown here: > http://xoomer.virgilio.it/guidoiam/arte/guidoiam/Images/sarcofago.jpg > TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/64wnc > Where it spent the Middle Ages after the removal of the relics to the > new town is unknown. At some point prior to 1968 (when it was in the > cathedral treasury of Troia), it was discovered serving as the basin for > a fountain behind Troia's monastery of the Combonian Missionaries. The > inscription is said to be as described in the eleventh-century accounts, > except that it lacks the word _episcopus_. But as it is also reported > to say that S. restored (_renovavit_) the churches of the saints, the > inference that S. had in fact been a bishop seems justified. And > probably a local one, despite conjectures that S. is really one of the > other sainted bishops of this name venerated in early medieval southern > Italy. > > One of Troia's patron saints, S. is one of the two flanking saints on > the architrave of the main portal of Troia's cathedral: > http://xoomer.virgilio.it/guidoiam/arte/guidoiam/porta_centrale.htm > TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/5597j > > The cathedral itself (finished in 1127) is worth a look: > http://www.itineraweb.com/it/gt/cr_troia.php > http://www.mondimedievali.net/Edifici/Puglia/Foggia/Troia.htm > http://www.circolofilnumdauno.it/troiafoto.html > http://www.pugliadocitalia.it/parte_istituzionale/romantico_gotico_pugli > ese2.htm > TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/4axeh > > Also (facade): > http://www.pugliago.it/itinerari/troia.html > and an extensive, multi-page site in Italian, with numerous .jpgs: > http://xoomer.virgilio.it/guidoiam/arte/guidoiam/index.htm > > A much less extensive English-language introduction is here: > http://www.masseriacanestrello.it/english/pagine_web_eng/troia_eng.htm > TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/5beb4 > > Best, > John Dillon > > **Given the name of Troia's founder, it is perhaps no accident that its > oldest church is the eleventh-century San Basilio, shown here: > http://www.comune.troia.fg.it/sanbasilio.htm > http://web.tiscali.it/prolocotroia/ > and in ground plan here: > http://www.zen-it.com/symbol/geo/Tbasilio1.htm > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html