Identifier: cu31924028356396 (find matches)
Title: Ravenna, a study
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hutton, Edward, 1875-
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent New York, E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thesame authority asserts, was elected in 429. AU agree that S.Ursus reigned for twenty-six years, and therefore, if he im-mediately preceded S. Peter Chrysologus, he was elected not 1 Iste primus hie initiavit Templum construere Dei, ut plebesChristianorum quae in singulis tuguriis vagabant in unum ovile piissimuscollegeret Pastor . . . Igitur aedificavit iste Beatissimus Praesulinfra banc Civitatem Ravennam Sanctam Ecclesiam Catholicam, quoomnes assidue concurremus, quam de suo nomine Ursianam nomina-vit. . . . * A. Testi Rasponi, Note Marginali al Liber Pontificalis di AgnelloRavennate in Atti e Memorie della R. Dep. di St. Pat. per la Romagna.iii. 27 (Bologna, 1909-10). L l62 RAVENNA in 370, but in 403; that is to say, in or about the same time asHonorius took up his residence in Ravenna. However that may be, we must attribute the foundationof a new cathedral church in Ravenna to S. Ursus, for till thisday it bears his name, Ecclesia Ursiana, though it appears ,4.:. Ill Af / V--.
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The Cathedral (BasilicaMJrsiana) to have been dedicated in honour of the Resurrection(Anastasis.) Agnellus gives us a fairly full account of this church, whichconsisted of five naves divided and upheld by four rows offifty-six ^ columns of precious marble from the temple ofJupiter. That the church was approached by steps we learn ^ Fabri, however, in his Sacve Memorie, says there were forty-ninecolumns. CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF FIFTH CENTRUY 163 from Agnellus in his life of S. Exuperantius, for he there tellsus that Felix the patrician was killed on the steps of the.Ecclesia Ursiana. Both the vault and the walls wereadorned with mosaics,^ which Agnellus describes and whichwould seem to have covered then or later the whole of theinterior; the wall on the womens side of the church beingdecorated with a figure of S. Anastasia, while over all was adome adorned with various coloured tiles representingdifferent figures. When Agnellus wrote (ninth century)this great church was of course standing

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