{"id":6643,"date":"2021-03-15T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.borgosanmarco.it\/?p=6643\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:23:20","slug":"the-painted-wonders-of-borgo-san-marco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borgosanmarco.it\/en\/the-painted-wonders-of-borgo-san-marco\/","title":{"rendered":"The painted wonders of Borgo San Marco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New discovers emerged in the cave church of the masseria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the cave church at the rear of Borgo San Marco (owned by Dr. Alessandro Amati and recently restored by Mrs Nori Meo Evoli) important and beautiful frescos, never seen before, were discovered. The images of the Saints and medieval writings have been hidden for years, perhaps centuries, underneath a whitewash and plaster blanket.<\/p>\n<p>The information that our recent discovery has uncovered are extremely interesting. A painted epigraph, recently discovered by academics, has reappeared to the side of Christ Pantocrator thrilled in the apse of the crypt, who blesses by raising an arm, in the middle of the Saints Medici Cosma and Damiano (after whom, the little carved temple was named after). On the right of Jesus on the throne, the text states: \u201cMEME TO D(OMI)NE \/ FAMULA TUA\/ DESPINA\u201d (i.e. \u201cRemember, Almighty God, your truly devoted Despina\u201d). Therefore, the person who dedicated and purchased the complex was a woman named Despina, who was wealthy enought to commission an extraordinary set of painted frescos (XII- XII cent.).<br \/>\nA \u201cfemale purchaser\u201d was unusual at the time and therefore points out the high economic power which belongs to this woman: something very unusual due to the role of the male as the primary authority figure, that was central to that kind of social organization (late middle Ages).<br \/>\nOn the southern wall of the cave church of San Marco, other images were discovered (even if the lower part has been lost): there is a bearded saint Bishop with a crosier and a prelate headcloth and a female figure (perhaps coming from the East) with a gold diadem on her head and wrapped in a drapery.<br \/>\nYou can clearly see the letters \u201cNO\u201d and \u201cPE\u201d: it is therefore supposed that they might be Saint Norbert (a saint coming from middle-northern Europe) and Saint Pelagia (coming from the middle east). If this is the case, once again the nearby territory preserved traces of an Eastern and Western Christianity mixed together, as the Christian faith was united into the same Creed, in the same holy temple. There is still more\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>SO CLOSE YET SO FAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the same cave church, another text has been found: it\u2019s a Greek name, \u03a3\u03c4\u03ad\u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2, (STEFANOS) which clearly hints at Saint Stephen \u2018s cult. The rest of the fresco (placed to Saint Norbert\u2019s left) has now re-emerged: the protomartyr of Christianity is kneeling while he\u2019s stoned to death by a number of people, who are depicted while throwing stones at him.<br \/>\nDue to the conditions of the fresco, the condition is not great, but Saint Stephen\u2019s figure is almost clear.<br \/>\nFinally, this last Saint is strictly linked to the other two figures of Saints (the Saints Doctors, Cosmo and Damian) because he had a reputation as a healer of the sick too and is mentioned in many intercessory prayers in Byzantium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New discovers emerged in the cave church of the masseria In the cave church at the rear of Borgo San Marco (owned by Dr. Alessandro Amati and recently restored by Mrs Nori Meo Evoli) important and beautiful frescos, never seen before, were discovered. 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