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And I found some good images of St Radegund (after MUCH searching!)
- links from the Other Women's Voices site at
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/radegund.html to two miniatures from
a manuscript of Fortunatus' Vita S. Radegundis, prepared in the later
1000s: expelling a demon from a possessed woman at
http://www.corpse.org/issue_5/broken_news/kupfer2.html , and 
curing a blind woman at
http://www.corpse.org/issue_5/broken_news/kupfer3.html 
and from another manuscript at
http://www.storiadimilano.it/miniatura_radegonda.gif , an illumination
showing Radegund, at top, asking the king to send men to ask the emperor
for a relic of Jesus' cross; and at bottom, praying before the reliquary
(according to Gregory, the oil lamp hanging above the reliquary never
needed to be refilled)..

and here is her writing desk
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/4505/desk01.gif 
on Steve Muhlberger's Visual Tour through Late Antiquity.

Anyone else got any more? I'm writing about the religious culture of a
little convent at Usk which had a chapel to St Radegund and a late
medieval depiction of her, something I could use as an illustration,
would be lovely.

Maddy

Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent

Head of History

School of Education/Ysgol Addysg

University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd

Caerleon Campus/Campws Caerllion, PO /Blwch Post 179

Newport/Casnewydd  NP18 3YG, Wales/Cymru

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inconveniences have thereupon ensued; and those many times more and
greater than the evils, that were intended to be remedied by such
change.' (from the Preface to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer)

 

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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 13. August

medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture

Today (13. August) is the feast day of:

1)  Cassian of Imola (??).  Our first testimony to this martyr's
existence is Prudentius' _Peristephanon_, 9, in which the early
fifth-century poet recounts his visit to C.'s shrine at Forum Cornelii
(today's Imola in the Romagna) and describes the picture there of the
saint's martyrdom.  According to this account, C. was a teacher who
endured a slow and painful martyrdom at the hands of his non-Christian
students who stabbed him repeatedly with their styluses.  Later legend
made C. the apostle of Sabiona in the Tirol, subsequently exiled to his
place of martyrdom.  C.'s cult spread widely in north central Italy.
St. Peter Chrysologus, Ravenna's first bishop (d. 450), had a special
devotion to this regional martyr.  Imola's first cathedral is said to
have been built over C.'s tomb; it and its successors have always been
dedicated to him.

Perhaps the best known of the many other medieval dedications to C. is
the originally eleventh-century church of San Cassiano in Pennino at
Predappio (FC) in the Romagna:
http://www.appenninoromagnolo.it/foto/predappio/foto/sancassiano.jpg
http://weecheng.com/europe/bologna/pred9.jpg
This church's fame, such as it is, derives from Benito Mussolini's
reposing here in his family's tomb in the adjacent burial ground.

Also worth a look are A) the thirteenth-century former Benedictine
priory church of San Cassiano in Valbagnola in an outlying section of
Fabriano (AN) in the Marche:
http://www.fabrianostorica.it/abbazie/sancassiano.htm
http://www.guanciarossa.it/leviedellafede/scassian.htm
http://www.fabrianostorica.it/epigrafi/sancassiano.htm
http://tinyurl.com/g3ht2
B) the originally eleventh(?)-century abbey church of San Cassiano at
Narni (TR) in Umbria, radically rebuilt in the early fourteenth century
shortly before the construction of the present fortification wall:
http://tinyurl.com/2txxx7
http://tinyurl.com/2p4bdf
http://tinyurl.com/2k7vfr
http://tinyurl.com/3ax9ks
http://www.ternionline.net/itg.narni/S.Cassiano/disegni.htm
C) the twelfth-century Pieve dei Santi Cassiano e Giovanni at Settimo
(PI) in Tuscany, also known as a church of Santi Ippolito e Cassiano or
simply San Cassiano (many views towards the foot of the page):
http://www.stilepisano.it/immagini/Pisa_Pieve_di_San_Cassiano.htm
and D) -- just for fun -- the recently restored remnant of the church of
San Cassiano at Trescore Balneario (BG) in Lombardy, first documented
from 1105:
Before restoration:
http://tinyurl.com/2xt5ao
After renovation:
http://tinyurl.com/yvtgru
http://tinyurl.com/yu452s
http://tinyurl.com/2x795f

2)  Cassian of Todi (d. 304, supposedly).   C. has a relatively late,
highly legendary Passio (BHL 1637) that makes him an early bishop of
today's Todi (PG) in Umbria who, imprisoned during the Great
Persecution, refused to apostasize and was finally martyred.  His
medieval cult, centered upon the diocese of Todi, is first documented
from the twelfth century.  Both the coincidence of his feast day with
that of the much better known Cassian of Imola and the reappearance in
his Passio of details drawn from Prudentius' account of that saint have
led to the supposition (paralleled in the case of the recently noticed
Cassian of Benevento) that this C. is in origin C. of Imola re-imagined
at Todi as a local bishop.

In 1198 altars to C. and to Todi's St. Fortunatus were consecrated in an
oratory dedicated to them in a former Roman-period cistern near the
predecessor of today's Tempio di San Fortunato at Todi.  In 1301 their
putative relics were translated to the latter church, then newly built,
and deposited under its main altar.  In the later Middle Ages Todi also
had a separate chapel dedicated to C.  This was not the oratory in the
former cistern, in which other altars were dedicated in 1242 and 1263,
and which at some point came to be thought of as the prison in which C.
had been immured after his arrest.  Here's a view of the entrance to the
oratory (the so-called _carcere di San Cassiano_):
http://www.comune.todi.pg.it/images/g57.jpg

Since 1596 C. has resided in the crypt of San Fortunato.  Links to views
of that church were given two days ago in the Saints of the Day notice
of Digna of Todi (11. August).  Here are a few other views showing San
Fortunato's location near the highest point on the hill of Todi:
http://www.medioevoinumbria.it/images/citta/todi_ok.jpg
http://www.casaleulivi.com/files/images/Todi-panoramica.jpg
http://www.sitodi.net/panoramadaImaggio.jpg 

Best,
John Dillon
(Cassian of Imola revised from earlier posts)

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