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stitchwhichThe Feast of the Chair of St Peter at Antioch. The feast of the Chair of St Peter at Rome is on January 18. This feast is first mentioned in 354(!). In the late fifth century Perpetuus of Tours calls it Natalis S. Petri episcopatus (the anniversary of Peter’s consecration as bishop). When the Cathedra Petri came to be celebrated in January, the two feasts were differentiated by calling them "of Rome" and "of Antioch" (commemorating Peter's elevation to the episcopate in that city). Both feasts are already present in the early eighth-century Calendar of St. Willibrord. With the suppression in 1960 of the January 18 feast the specification "of Antioch" was dropped from today's celebration.
The wood and ivory Chair enclosed in Bernini's splendid bronze installation was very probably among the gifts brought to Rome on the occasion of Charles the Bald's imperial coronation in 875 and was probably made in Metz. How it became identified with St Peter is unknown. It was hidden under an embroidered cover in 1481 and then enclosed by Bernini in 1689. It underwent a thorough investigation and restoration in 1968-74 before being returned to its bronze shrine.
It is suggested that the January celebration was a Frankish feast of the sixth or seventh centuries which later spread to Rome, duplicating that of 22 February - this feast was known in the twelfth century as 'St Peter's banquet day'.
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Beradates (d. c. 460) Beradates was a Syrian hermit, whom Theodoret calls "the admirable." He lived in a hut open to the weather and engaged in severe ascetic exercises (for example, he wore a leather garment that allowed only his mouth and nose to be seen). He was credited with great religious insight; Emperor Leo I even wrote to consult him about the Council of Chalcedon (451). He was even a good, obedient hermit - probably a great relief to bishops in that age of rather wild-eyed ascetics: when his bishop ordered him to give up the eremetical life, he obeyed without question.
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Thalassius and Limnaeus (5th cent.) These were two hermits. Thalassius, the elder of the two, made himself a hermitage in a cave in Syria; his disciple Limnaeus later joined him there. Limnaeus in particular had a great reputation as a healer; he later walled himself up as a recluse, but had crowds turn up at his window. So many blind people came to him for help that he had two houses built to care for them.
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Papias of Hierapolis (d. prob. earlier 2d century) The Apostolic Father Papias, bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, was the author whose work others preserve somewhat in quotations. It is the source for the traditions that Matthew wrote his gospel in Aramaic and that Mark's gospel was a summary of Peter's preaching. He is said by St. Irenaeus of Lyon to have been an auditor of John and a companion of Polycarp. The latter is clearly the martyr bishop of Smyrna and the former is identified by Eusebius and by Jerome as being, in Papias' case, John the Presbyter. Ado, who entered Papias in his martyrology under today's date, understood this John to be St. John the Evangelist. For the remainder of the Middle Ages Papias was in the Latin West considered in a direct recipient of apostolic teaching.
The wood and ivory Chair enclosed in Bernini's splendid bronze installation was very probably among the gifts brought to Rome on the occasion of Charles the Bald's imperial coronation in 875 and was probably made in Metz. How it became identified with St Peter is unknown. It was hidden under an embroidered cover in 1481 and then enclosed by Bernini in 1689. It underwent a thorough investigation and restoration in 1968-74 before being returned to its bronze shrine.
It is suggested that the January celebration was a Frankish feast of the sixth or seventh centuries which later spread to Rome, duplicating that of 22 February - this feast was known in the twelfth century as 'St Peter's banquet day'.
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Beradates (d. c. 460) Beradates was a Syrian hermit, whom Theodoret calls "the admirable." He lived in a hut open to the weather and engaged in severe ascetic exercises (for example, he wore a leather garment that allowed only his mouth and nose to be seen). He was credited with great religious insight; Emperor Leo I even wrote to consult him about the Council of Chalcedon (451). He was even a good, obedient hermit - probably a great relief to bishops in that age of rather wild-eyed ascetics: when his bishop ordered him to give up the eremetical life, he obeyed without question.
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Thalassius and Limnaeus (5th cent.) These were two hermits. Thalassius, the elder of the two, made himself a hermitage in a cave in Syria; his disciple Limnaeus later joined him there. Limnaeus in particular had a great reputation as a healer; he later walled himself up as a recluse, but had crowds turn up at his window. So many blind people came to him for help that he had two houses built to care for them.
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Papias of Hierapolis (d. prob. earlier 2d century) The Apostolic Father Papias, bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, was the author whose work others preserve somewhat in quotations. It is the source for the traditions that Matthew wrote his gospel in Aramaic and that Mark's gospel was a summary of Peter's preaching. He is said by St. Irenaeus of Lyon to have been an auditor of John and a companion of Polycarp. The latter is clearly the martyr bishop of Smyrna and the former is identified by Eusebius and by Jerome as being, in Papias' case, John the Presbyter. Ado, who entered Papias in his martyrology under today's date, understood this John to be St. John the Evangelist. For the remainder of the Middle Ages Papias was in the Latin West considered in a direct recipient of apostolic teaching.
