Virgin Saints and Martyrs

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S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould. Virgin Saints and Martyrs

Virgin Saints and Martyrs

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IBLANDINA THE SLAVE

IIS. CÆCILIA

IIIS. AGNES

IVFEBRONIA OF SIBAPTE

VTHE DAUGHTER OF CONSTANTINE

VI.THE SISTER OF S. BASIL

VIIGENEVIÈVE OF PARIS

VIIITHE SISTER OF S. BENEDICT

IXS. BRIDGET

XTHE DAUGHTERS OF BRIDGET

XIS. ITHA

XIIS. HILDA

XIIIS. ELFLEDA

XIVS. WERBURGA

XVA PROPHETESS

XVIS. CLARA

XVIIS. THERESA

XVIIISISTER DORA

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S. Baring-Gould

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The chapel or crypt contains frescoes. In the luminare is painted a female figure with the hands raised in prayer. Beneath this a cross with a lamb on each side. Below are three male figures with the names Sebastianus, Curinus (Quirinus), and Polycamus. Sebastian is doubtless the martyr of that name whose basilica is not far off. Quirinus, who has the corona of a priest, is the bishop and martyr of Siscia, whose body was brought in 420 to Rome. Of Polycamus nothing is known, save that his relics were translated in the ninth century to S. Prassede.

Against the wall lower down is a seventh-century representation of S. Cæcilia, richly clothed with necklace and bracelets; below a head of Christ of Byzantine type, and a representation of S. Urban. But these paintings, which are late, have been applied over earlier decoration; behind the figure of S. Cæcilia is mosaic, and that of Christ is painted on the old porphyry panelling. There are in this crypt recesses for the reception of bodies, and near the entrance an arched place low enough to receive a sarcophagus; and there are traces as though the face had at one time been walled up.

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