ON SAINT CLERIUS,
WONDER-WORKER AMONG THE GREEKS.
HISTORICAL COMMENTARY.
Clerius, Wonder-worker among the Greeks (St.)
G. H.
The Latin calendars offer us several Saints called by the name Clerus. Of these, on January 7 there is Saint Clerus the Deacon of Antioch, but who was beheaded and died a Martyr: and by others is also called Licerius, Lucerius, and Bilicerius. Another Saint Clerus, likewise a Deacon and Martyr, is set forth on January 14, but cast into the sea, and is written by others as Clarus, Clericus, Glicerius. The Greeks offer us Saint Clerius, not a Martyr, but a Wonder-worker, who having died holily amid the exercises of the virtues, then being deemed worthy by God of the working of miracles, earned the name of Wonder-worker. A very ancient Greek manuscript Synaxary, which we found at Paris in the College of Clermont of the Society of Jesus, commemorates him thus: "On the same day, April 29, of our holy Father Clerius the Wonder-worker." More of him we do not find, but we indicate this to the benevolent Reader, who perhaps may find more elsewhere of his virtues and miracles: for he must have been an Abbot or at least a monk or anchorite, who is noted to us under the customary title of "holy Father" used for such Saints.