ON STS. SIMPRONIUS, VENERIUS OR VENERIA, AND SEVEN OTHERS, MARTYRS OF ANTIOCH.
From the Hieronymian Martyrologies.
CommentarySimpronius, Martyr, at Antioch (S.)
Venerius or Veneria, Martyr, at Antioch (S.)
Seven other Martyrs, at Antioch
J. B. S.
Written "Simpronio" with the Corbie codex, although the Lucca one has "Simfloni," and the most ancient Echternach one "Suffroni," in which manner Greven transcribed it from some old codex, whose supplement alone and singly is among the Usuardine ones. I do not sufficiently understand what Galesinius meant, when out of the class of Antiochene Martyrs he took Sophronius, to join him to Peter and Julian, today's Roman Martyrs, in which indeed he did not have Baronius as an imitator. Notable is the confusion of the Echternach codex, when it is read there thus: At Antioch, of Suffronius, Veneria, and at Arezzo of Donatus, and of seven others. But the intrusion of these words, "and at Arezzo of Donatus," is patent — the ignorance of an unskilled copyist. But it agrees with the Corbie one, when it anonymously numbers seven, who whether they were brothers I would not dare to assert on the sole authority of this Corbie codex. Florentinius rightly noted this, that these holy Martyrs are by no means common to the other Martyrologies published up to now. Their most ancient cult is abundantly proved by the consent of the cited codices.