S. CIRILLO DI COSTANTINOPOLI
S. PIER TOMMASO
S. ANGELO MARTIRE
S. ILARIONE
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MEDALLIONS ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT
of Saint Albert of Trapani
On the splendid page of the fresco of Saint Albert of Trapani, whose memory was very well known in the Carmelite Order during the 15th Century, we can admire fourteen medallions that frame the figure of St. Albert.
The first two medallions on the upper left respectively represent: St. Cyril of Constantinople and St. Peter of Burgoyne.
St. Cyril of Constantinople is represented as a Patriarch, and he is portrayed with his pastoral staff. Being one of the Fathers of the Oriental Church, it is probable that the Order of the Carmelites also considered the saint as one of its founders, one of the first monks , who had become Patriarch of the glorious Church of Constantinople.
Saint Peter of Burgoyne should correspond to Saint Peter Thomas who, indeed, was a Carmelite monk, born in France and destined to the Oriental Church as Patriarch and pontifical legacy to Constantinople about 1360. He was a man of peace and for this reason he was esteemed and revered among not only the Carmelites , but in all the Church, as well.
On the right of Saint Albert, the first medallions from the top down depict Saint Angelus a martyr and St. Hillarion.
Saint Angelus of Sicily was one of the first monks of the Carmelite Order and therefore was much revered by the monks of San Felice del Benaco who aspired to imitate the initiators of the life of the Order. A great preacher, he died, killed by a sword, on May 5th, 1220 at Licata, a town in Sicily.
Saint Hillarion is one of the Fathers of the Desert; he lived in the 5th Century and had nothing to do with the Carmelite monks who emerged at the beginning of the 13th Century. Nevertheless, the monks of San Felice del Benaco considered him equally as one of their founders and venerated him as such.
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