THE EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST.

THE SAINTS WHO ARE VENERATED ON THE SIXTH OF THE IDES OF AUGUST.

St. Cyriacus, M., at Rome.

St. Largus, M., at Rome.

St. Smaragdus, M., at Rome.

Their Companion MM., at Rome.

St. Nazarius, M., at Nicomedia.

St. Juliana, V. M., at Nicomedia.

St. Agape, V. M., at Nicomedia.

St. Eutychianus, M., at Nicomedia.

St. Corintho, M., at Nicomedia.

St. Diomedes, M., at Nicomedia.

St. Metrodora, V. M., at Nicomedia.

St. Hormisdas, M., in Persia.

St. Eleutherius, M., in Greece.

St. Leonides, M., in Greece.

St. Myron, bishop, confessor, Wonderworker, in the island of Crete.

St. Marinus the Elder, M., at Anazarbus in Cilicia.

St. Severus, presbyter and confessor, at Vienne in Gaul.

St. Theodore the hegumen, confessor, among the Greeks.

St. Mummolus, abbot and confessor, at Bordeaux in Gaul.

St. Aemilianus, bishop and confessor, at Cyzicus on the Hellespont.

Blessed Rathard, presbyter and confessor, at Diessen in Bavaria.

Blessed Altmann, bishop of Passau.

St. Famianus, confessor, at Gallese in the Roman territory.

Blessed Hugolina, virgin, at Vercelli in Insubria.

PASSED OVER AND DEFERRED TO OTHER DAYS.

Ultan, monk of Lindisfarne, far different from him who is venerated on 1 May, Menard dug out on this day from I know not where in his Benedictine Martyrology. In Colgan, by no means sparing in reviewing the Irish Saints, he is marked from Harpsfield on 17 January, on which day Colgan, not yet published, could not be consulted by Bollandus. If, however, he is truly venerated on that day, treatment of him will be possible in the Supplement of January at the said day, 17 January.

The translation of St. Valerius, bishop of Trier, is marked in the Ms. additions of the Charterhouse of Brussels. See what has been said of him on the day on which he is venerated, 29 January.

St. Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne, I know not why Colgan wishes to be entered on this day, in the notes on the seventh Life of St. Patrick, page 181, column 1, notation 167; where, treating of the island of Inisbofinde, he speaks thus: "In which is venerated St. Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne, who died in the year DCLXXIV, on 8 August"; to which he was vainly referred among the Passed Over on 7 March. Colgan must have slipped in memory here, since he entered that St. Colman on 18 February, on which day his deeds were illustrated by our predecessors, as may be seen there, 18 February.

The contest of the holy Apostle Matthias with a small eulogy is read in the Sirleto Menologium. We treated of him on 24 February.

The passion of St. Quiriacus, bishop, at Jerusalem under Julian is roundly announced on this day in the Usuardine codex of Pulsano; others chiefly dwell upon his translation, made, as they will have it, on this day to Ancona. About the Quiriaci or Cyriaci enough has been disputed. For the Jerusalem Martyr and his translation, volume 1 of May from page 439 is to be seen, where the whole matter was long since discussed, 4 May.

St. Theodomus, bishop of Lucca in Etruria, why Castellanus entered him on this day in his auctaria I confess I altogether do not understand, since he could and should have known that he is venerated at Lucca on 19 May, on which day he was entered in our Acta under the true name of Theodore, where it was also said that he is called Thodomus and Theodolus by some; see what was said there, volume IV, page 329, 19 May.

St. Justin, martyr, whose body rests in the cathedral church of the blessed Virgin at Paris, is recorded on this day by Muneratus, Greven and Molanus: but we have already warned in the Usuardine auctaria that he is this very same one who is placed by Usuard on 1 August, on which day we also illustrated his Acts, so that accordingly recourse must be had to 1 August.

So St. Felix, martyr of Gerona, has also been transferred hither in the codex of Hagenau, from the already mentioned first day, on which his Acts were illustrated. See therefore again 1 August.

St. Faustinus, martyr of Milan, is wrongly marked on this day in the Usuardine codex of Centula: he belongs to the preceding day, on which treatment of him was given, 7 August.

Valerian, Martyr, the additions of the Charterhouse of Brussels mark: but whom among so many of the same name they wish to indicate, no one would easily divine.

Two Martyrs from Tyre are found in the Menaeum of Chifflet, not known even so far as their name.

Marinus, monk and martyr in Apulia, Ferrarius alone marks for us on this day in the general Catalogue, whom he had not recorded in his greater one on the Saints of Italy. We know that he was a celebrated man, but that he was ever lawfully venerated as a Saint we should wish established by an authority other than that of Ferrarius alone.

Ternatius, with other bishops of Besançon, marked on this day by Saussay in the Supplement, was passed over the day before from the others.

Roger, monk, disciple of St. Bernard, first Prior of the monastery of Meira in Galicia, so ordered his life there that he wonderfully profited that whole region, praised by his brethren in religion and honoured with the title of Blessed, from which, however, we judge that we must abstain so far.

"David Douglas, of most noble birth, sought heavenly things, who, being detected as a Catholic at York in England, with his head cut off merited the company of the heavenly ones in the year MDLXXV." These are the words of Camerarius in his Scottish Menologium.

Diego, Cistercian monk, whom we praised in the series of the Passed Over on 2 July, inasmuch as he was then marked by Henriquez and others, is announced on this day in the Cistercian Kalendar thus: "There died Bl. Diego Velázquez, the eminent coadjutor of St. Raymond," namely when he put the Mohammedans to flight and instituted the military Order of Calatrava. Proof of lawful cult was lacking there, and since it has not been added since that time, we are compelled here too to leave him again in the same series.

Of Leobald, marked on this day by Ferrarius, we treated at sufficient length among the Passed Over of the preceding day.

"In Hungary, the arrival of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ," is a singular commemoration of Greven: but that what concerns Christ the Lord and His most holy Mother belongs to another work has already been indicated quite often and abundantly.

There is another announcement of the same Greven, conceived in these words: "Likewise the feast of the fifteen Helpers, whose names are these: the glorious Mother of God, ever Virgin Mary, Blaise, Denis, Erasmus, Pantaleon, Vitus, George, Cyriacus, Christopher, Acacius, Eustace, Giles, Barbara, Catherine, Margaret." Of each treatment has already been given or will be given in its place. They are venerated especially under that title of Helpers at Langheim in Germany, where only XIV are numbered, of whom we have a Mass and a German book containing compendia of their Lives. There is also with us an Italian book printed at Palermo which keeps the number XV, even without the most blessed Virgin. Nor indeed do the said works entirely agree in the names, which it is enough to have indicated here.

Finally Paymon too, martyr, is recorded without further information by the so often mentioned Greven, whom I should wish to be inserted in other Fasti also.

William, martyr, at Gaza in Palestine; Raymond Roedanus, martyr, at Condom in France; Francis the Frenchman, confessor, in the Abruzzi; John a Bucca, confessor, at Palermo; Electus, confessor, at Die in the Dauphiné; Gregory, confessor, at Spoleto; James of Testera, confessor, in the kingdom of Mexico; Andrew de Olmos, confessor, in the West Indies; Elandia of Corceyum, virgin, in the territory of Besançon: these are honoured with the title of blessed by Arthur in the Franciscan Martyrology, and the last also in the Gynaeceum, as also the three following.

Gertrude, martyr, in England.

An Anonymous woman in Brabant.

Adeltrude, widow, in Auvergne.

Hedwig, queen, widow, in Poland; Cecilia Gonzaga at Mantua; another Cecilia, also of Mantua: these are added by Hueber in the Menologium, but without a title.

Hartwic, abbot of Tegernsee in Bavaria, is entered on this day by Mabillon among the Saints of the Order, but with only the title of venerable.

John Abercromby, priest, slain for the faith by the ministers of Satan, is marked on this day in the Scottish Menologium of Dempster.

A certain Orus, archimandrite of the Eliotae, for the year of Christ 370, is noted in the Acies bene ordinata of Fr. Philip the Visitandine, which it is enough to have indicated here.

"Likewise of Helger of blessed memory, confessor, of the Order of Preachers, son of a Count," are the words of Greven, which Marchese, in his Dominican Diarium, not very aptly attributes to Usuard himself, where he complains rather bitterly about the writers of his Order, that they treated so sparingly and meagrely of the deeds of so great a Man. We seek his cult, about which nothing has so far been ascertained, so that even the place of his burial seems to be unknown, although here and there he is honoured with the title of Blessed. An Urso, I know not who, nor received from where, the Florarium joins to Hilger.

Two Rinalducci, both of Perugia, are also praised on this day by Marchese, but simply.

Alphonsus of St. Matthew is marked by the same and in the same manner in Portugal.

"The holy ten Egyptian Ascetics rest in peace," from the great Greek Menaea. Add the Sirleto Menologium. But of these let it suffice to have made mention in this place.

Of Artemia, daughter, as they will have it, of Diocletian, and indeed virgin and martyr, our predecessors have already treated in more than one place, as on 16 January at the Life of St. Marcellus, number 20, on 16 March among the Passed Over, and elsewhere, nowhere daring to give her a place among the Saints, whatever the name of Saint she has been distinguished with in some auctaria of Usuard, in Panciroli and others. Ferrarius also records her at 12 and 16 August, on I know not what occasion. More need not be said by us here, since treatment of her has been given abundantly in today's Commentary on the Acts of St. Cyriacus etc., §2, from number 20.

Daria, one among several of the same name, Colgan wishes to be entered on this day in the Life of St. Brigid, page 545, notation 67, from the Martyrology of Tallaght, where she is said to be announced thus: "On this day, of Daria, virgin, who died in the eightieth year of her age." I should wish he had added those things from which a conjecture could be made about her deeds, virtues, miracles and cult. Certainly from those words what is necessary for us is not made out, for a place to be given to this Daria here.

The contest of the holy martyr Antoninus is entered with an eulogy in the Synaxarion collected from the Menologium of the emperor Basil. We shall treat of him with the great printed Menaea on the next day, 9 August.

Arcisius the Usuard of Brussels writes out for us today, who is unknown among the others: no wonder, since the name is corrupted from Ursacius, whose proper eulogy is wrongly adapted here, being namely to be referred to 16 August.

"Of St. Dubricius, archbishop of the City of the Legions in Britain," is an addition of the Charterhouse of Brussels to Greven: no other Saint of that name is known to us except the bishop of Llandaff in Wales, who is venerated on 14 November.

St. Fagan is entered by Wilson on this day in the English Martyrology, as distinct from Fugatius, whom he inserted in the same Martyrology at the day 26 May. To say nothing here of Wilson's fabulous announcement, which our predecessors have already partly exploded in the Acts of St. Joseph of Arimathea at the day 17 March, we think it more probable that this Fagan is the same as Fugatius, who was sent by the Roman Pontiff to Lucius, king of the Britons, to preach the faith. Besides our Alford and other more severe critics, we are moved to acknowledge this identity by John Brompton, an English author of the twelfth century, who, published among the ten ancient Writers of England, column 725, calls that herald of the faith who was sent to king Lucius in the second century Fagan. Since therefore our predecessors referred Fugatius among the passed over on the days 24 and 26 May to the Acts of St. Lucius, king of the Britons, we refer Fagan to the same Acts, which are to be illustrated with the Roman Martyrology on the day 3 December.