Tag: Bartolo di Fredi
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51 Paintings, Interpretation of the bible by Artists of 16th and 17th Centuries, with footnotes
Saint Acisclus was a martyr of Córdoba, in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula. His life is mentioned by Eulogius of Cordoba. He suffered martyrdom during the Diocletianic Persecution along with his sister Victoria. Their feast day is 17 November. There is doubt about the historical veracity of Victoria’s existence, but both martyrs were honored in Mozarabic…
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1 Religious Icon, Bartolo di Fredi’s Saint Anthony Abbot, with footnotes #14
Saint Anthony or Antony (251–356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony by various epithets: Anthony the Great, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, and Anthony of Thebes. For his importance among the Desert Fathers…
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06 Works, Today, May 31st is Saint Aurelia Petronilla’s day, her story in Paintings #151
Saint Aurelia Petronilla is an early Christian saint. She was venerated as a virgin martyr by the Catholic Church. She died in Rome at the end of 1st century, or possibly in the 3rd century. Petronilla, her name is the feminine and diminutive of Peter, and is traditionally identified as the daughter of Saint Peter,…
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