Peleusus

ON SAINT PELEUSUS, OR PELUSIUS,

PRIEST, MARTYR AT ALEXANDRIA.

Peleusus, or Pelusius, Priest, Martyr at Alexandria (Saint)

G. H.

The memory of this Saint is most celebrated in many Martyrologies, but with some variety of spelling. In a double transcript of Saint Jerome he is written Peleusius, in which way also it is read in the present-day Roman Martyrology, likewise in others printed at Cologne and Lübeck in the year 1490, and in several Manuscripts. But Pelusius is written in the Blumian Manuscript of Saint Jerome, likewise in Usuard, Notker, Bellinus, Molanus, and in very many ancient Manuscripts. Pilusus is found in the Lucca codex of Saint Jerome, Pelosus in Rabanus, Palensius in the Pseudo-Bede, Peleusoppus in the auctarium of Usuard by Greven. Peter de Natalibus, in book 11 of his Catalogue, number 114, has the following: "Pleusius the Priest on the same day (the seventh day before the Ides of April) rested in Christ." Hence in some Martyrology, supplemented by the Carthusians of Utrecht, he is called Confessor. But with all the ancients these things are better found in the Roman Martyrology: "At Alexandria of Saint Peleusius, Priest and Martyr." One scruple troubles us, whether this Martyr among so many names is also called Clusius in the ancient transcripts of the Martyrology of Jerome on the preceding day, where we reported Clusius the Priest, with others also having suffered at Alexandria. Both we retain with this added warning, on account of the antiquity of the Martyrologies; and for the same reason we distinguish him from Saint Eleusus the Priest reported above, although we strongly fear that Eleusius and Peleusius may be one and the same.

ON SAINTS CYRIACUS AND COMPANIONS,

MARTYRS AT NICOMEDIA.

Cyriacus, Martyr at Nicomedia (Saint)

Ten Companions, Martyrs at Nicomedia (Saints)

G. H.

In the most ancient transcript of the Martyrology of Jerome which we have hitherto used, after other Martyrs already reported these things are read: "At Nicomedia of Cyriacus with ten others." The same things are found in the ancient Fasti of the monasteries of Reichenau and Rheinau, likewise in Rabanus, Notker and Pseudo-Bede; with which cited, and with the consent of the ancient manuscripts indicated, these things are found in the present Roman Martyrology: "At Nicomedia of Saint Cyriacus and ten other Martyrs." Galesinius commemorates the same with this number of companions. Nor has more been permitted hitherto to be known concerning these Martyrs.