ON SAINT VICTURINUS,
MARTYR AT ALEXANDRIA.
CommentaryVicturinus, Martyr at Alexandria in Egypt (Saint)
By G. H.
Very many Martyrs occur throughout this whole work of ours called Victurinus or Victorinus; of which, in these four months, more than twenty have been published, not counting those who have related names—Victor, Victrix, Victoria, Victorianus, Victoricus, Victorina, Victorius, Victurus, Victuria, Victuriana, Victurianus, Victuricus, Victuri, Victurius, Victurina. But this Victurinus with whom we here deal, four copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology report, after the three Martyrs who suffered in Pannonia, with these words only: "At Alexandria, the Nativity of Saint Victurinus," or (as in the Corbie codex printed at Paris) "Victorinus." The same is reported as having suffered at Alexandria in the ancient MSS. Trier of Saint Maximin, the Roman of Cardinal Barberini in the Supplement of the genuine Bede, likewise another of the Queen of Sweden praised by Holstenius, and in the Annotations on the printed Roman Martyrology. Without the palaestra being indicated, he is mentioned in the Augsburg and Paris MSS. of Labbe, but with the last syllable removed, "Victuri" is written. Of another Saint Victurinus, or Victorinus, but in some Victorina, we also treat on this day among the African Martyrs in Numidia. We gave on April 27 Victorinus, who suffered at Nicomedia with twelve companions; likewise on February 28 Saint Victorinus who suffered at Alexandria, but with fifteen companions, whose names may there be read, expressed from the same copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology: so that this Victurinus with whom we deal seems to have been quite another.