Victor

ON STS. VICTOR, MAXIMUS, MARCIANUS, PAUL, GERMANUS, AND SIX OTHERS,

MARTYRS IN EGYPT.

Victor, Martyr in Egypt (Saint)

Maximus, Martyr in Egypt (Saint)

Marcianus, Martyr in Egypt (Saint)

Paul, Martyr in Egypt (Saint)

Germanus, Martyr in Egypt (Saint)

Six others, Martyrs in Egypt (Saints)

G. H.

This sixth class of Martyrs, marked in the copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology, various other Martyrologies report; as the one of the Queen of Sweden which we have, printed by Lucas Holstenius in his Animadversiones on the Roman Martyrology, in which is read: "In Egypt of Victor, Maximus, Paul, Martianus, Germanus with six others." Which are entirely the same (except that Paul is put to one place later) in the Roman manuscript of Cardinal Barberini. In the Arras, Tournai, and Lätien manuscripts is read: "In Egypt the deposition of Victor, Maximus, Marcianus, Paulinus, and Germanus," with the six anonymous ones omitted, and in the Tournai is written "Martinianus," in others "Marcianus." In the manuscript of Saint Cyriacus, used by Baronius in supplementing the Roman Martyrology, is read: "In Egypt of Victor, Maximianus." The Trier manuscript of Saint Maximin adds more: "In Egypt of Victurinus, Neophorus" (who belong to the following class), "Victor, Maximus, Martianus, Paul, Germanus." Having set these down, we pass to the Martyrology of Saint Jerome. "In Egypt of Nicomedia" (which name of the city we refer to the following class) "of Victor, Maximus, Marcianus, Paul, Germanus, with six others"—who are written as seven in the Lucca codex and the Prague manuscript, with entire agreement in the other names. Victor and Germanus are commemorated in the Augsburg and Labbean manuscripts. In the double Usuardine manuscript of the Queen of Sweden, and in the manuscript Kalendar before Saint Isidore On the Ecclesiastical Offices in the Vallicellian library, and on the following day in the Vatican manuscript of Saint Peter, this is read: "In Egypt of Victor, Maximus, and Martin," in place of "Marcianus." Finally Victor is recalled in the Aachen and Cologne manuscripts of Saint Mary ad Gradus. Some sacred relics of Saint Martin the Martyr are said to be preserved at Bologna in the church of Saint Francis, writes Masini in Bononia Perlustrata; which there is nothing that persuades us to presume to be those of this Egyptian Marcianus.