Septimus the Deacon and Victoricus

ON SAINTS SEPTIMUS THE DEACON AND VICTORICUS,

MARTYRS AT SALONA IN DALMATIA.

Septimus the Deacon, Martyr at Salona in Dalmatia (Saint)

Victoricus, Martyr at Salona in Dalmatia (Saint)

G. H.

Concerning the once most celebrated city of Dalmatia, Salona,

and concerning the people of Salona taught the faith of Christ by Saint Titus,

and concerning Saint Domnius the Bishop sent to them by

the Apostle Saint Peter, we treated at length on April 11; because Saint Domnius,

killed with nine soldier-companions,

is referred on that day in the ancient copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology,

which themselves begin this day with the two aforenamed Martyrs thus on the 14th day before the Kalends of May:

"In the city of Salona, the natal day of Saints Septimus the Deacon, Victoricus or Victuricus,

and corruptly in the Manuscript of the Queen of Sweden praised by Holstenius,

Victurus." Both are also celebrated in the Manuscripts of Rheinau

and of Saint Lambert of Liège; and without place of martyrdom in Greven

in the additions to Usuard: likewise in the Manuscripts of Augsburg

of Saint Ulrich, of Labbé's Paris, and of Tallaght in Ireland;

but in place of Victoricus, Mauritius is read in the Augsburg.

Notker has this: "In the city of Salonica the nativity of Saint

Septimus the Deacon." Who also alone is inscribed in a very ancient

Trier Manuscript of Saint Maximin. Among the soldiers, crowned with martyrdom at Salona with

Saint Domnius on April 11, is a certain

Septimus; whom we think different from this Deacon. Whether

the Deacon whom we now venerate was the Deacon of the said Bishop Domnius,

killed on the seventh day after his Martyrdom, cannot in the lack of Acts

be certainly established.

ON THE HOLY MARTYRS

HERMOGENES AND DIONYSIUS.

Hermogenes, Martyr (Saint)

Dionysius, Martyr (Saint)

G. H.

After the two Martyrs who suffered at Salona, in the most ancient

Martyrology of Saint Jerome, which

we had from the Epternach books, there is added: "And

elsewhere of Hermogenes," but by contraction in

the Lucca and Blumian Manuscripts "Hermonis." A companion is given to him in

the Corbie Manuscript printed at Paris, in these words: "And elsewhere of Hermogenes

and Dionysius." Hermogenes is also referred in the Tallaght Manuscript.

We have not read more about them on this day. On

April 17 Saint Hermogenes the Martyr is venerated, a minister of Saint Peter

the Deacon, crowned with him at Antioch. Again on April 19

Saint Hermogenes is referred with many others who suffered in Armenia,

from whom the Hermogenes referred on this day may be different.