THE NINTH DAY OF AUGUST.

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

St. Secundianus, Martyr, in Tuscia.

St. Verianus, Martyr, in Tuscia.

St. Marcellianus, Martyr, in Tuscia.

St. Romanus the soldier, Martyr, at Rome.

St. Numidicus, Martyr, in Africa.

His Companions, Martyrs, in Africa.

St. Crescentianus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Largus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Tiberius, Martyr, in the East.

St. Amius, Martyr, in the East.

St. Tiberianus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Theodotus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Nomedianus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Laudacus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Julian, Martyr, in the East.

St. Polycarp, Martyr, in the East.

St. Primus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Xistus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Agatopus, Martyr, in the East.

Eleven other Martyrs, in the East.

St. Felicissimus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Carpophorus, Martyr, in the East.

St. Zemaragdus, Martyr, in the East.

Ten other Martyrs, in the East.

St. Onion, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Tiburtius, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Valerian, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Dionysius, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Felix, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Euticianus, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Gagius, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Melciades, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Stephen, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Urban, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Lucius, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Memorius, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Satirus, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Numidus, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Ladicus, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Julian, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Polycarp, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Magnus, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Silvanus, Martyr, at Alexandria.

St. Martin of Brive, at Limoges in Gaul.

St. Domitian, Bishop, at Châlons in Gaul.

St. Antoninus, Martyr, among the Greeks.

St. Firmus, Martyr, at Verona in Italy.

St. Rusticus, Martyr, at Verona in Italy.

St. Samuel, priest of Edessa, at Constantinople.

St. Erneus, Abbot, among the Cenomani in Gaul.

St. Gregory the Spatharius, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Julian, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Marcian, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. John, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. James, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Alexius, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Demetrius, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Leontius, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Photius, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Peter, Martyr, at Constantinople.

St. Mary the Patrician, Martyr, at Constantinople.

Two young boys, Martyrs, at Constantinople.

Bl. Hathumar, Bishop and Confessor, at Paderborn in Westphalia.

Bl. John, of the Order of Minors, on Mount Alverna in Italy.

St. Falcus, Confessor and hermit, in Apulia.

St. Nicholas, Confessor and hermit, in Apulia.

Bl. John Plebanus, Confessor, at Venice.

Bl. Leo Bembo, Confessor, at Venice.

PASSED OVER AND DEFERRED TO OTHER DAYS.

Bl. John, monk in the monastery of St. Andrew at Rome, is marked on this day by Menard in the Benedictine Martyrology, as is also St. Merulus in the small Kalendar of the same Order. For what reason this was done I for my part do not understand: of both, with their companion St. Anthony, treatment was given from Gregory the Great on 17 January.

St. Earcongotha, an English virgin, the author of the French Cabinet wrongly marked on this day; she belongs to 23 February.

The memory of St. Matthias the Apostle on this day I find in the great printed Menaea of the Greeks; to which add the Typicon of Sabas, the Arabic-Egyptian Martyrology, the Menaeum of Chifflet, and the figured August of the Muscovites before volume 1 of May, page XXXIX: for which name "of St. Matthew the Apostle" is written in our Slavo-Russian Menologium of Sparwenfeld, and also in Possevino, volume 2 of the Apparatus sacer, page 368, in the Kalendar of the Ruthenians; but, according to what has been said, erroneously. Treatment has been given with us of this holy Apostle on the day on which he is venerated among the Latins, 24 February.

St. Swithbert, bishop of Verden, I know not why is marked on this day by Camerarius. See the day 30 April.

The translation of St. Eudald is entered on this day by Tamayo. His deeds have been illustrated on the day on which he is venerated, 11 May.

The memory of St. Constantine, archbishop τῆς βασιλίδος πόλεως, that is, of the city of Constantinople, I find in our Sirmond-Chifflet copies, by which the printed Menaea of the Greeks are supplemented. We treated of him on the day 29 July.

"Of Bl. Wallen, abbot of the Cistercian Order in England" (others say in Scotland) is the present-day announcement of Menard in the Benedictine Martyrology, who in the annotations adds an eulogy, variously amplified by Henriquez in the Menologium, but contracted by Chalemot. This most illustrious Man, with truly deserved praises, we have already entered among the Saints under the name of Walthen at the day 3 August.

Of St. Richard, confessor, that on account of remarkable relics the Office is said on this day at Tortona in Insubria under the double rite, papers received from there inform us: I should wish the writer had explained which St. Richard is spoken of there; whether the English king laid to rest at Lucca, as you have it at 7 February, or St. Richard, likewise English, bishop of Andria, whom we gave in the Acta on 9 June. However it may have been, it is enough here to have made mention of his celebration.

The finding of the venerable image, not made by hand, τῶν Καμουλιανῶν, written by our holy Father Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, is noted in the great printed Menaea of the Greeks; with which the Sirleto Menologium is almost in agreement. "I have Nyssenus at hand," says Rader in the Ms. Observations on the aforesaid Menaea, "and indeed the Greek-Latin edition of him; but I find nothing in him about this image." Concerning the patronymic Καμουλιανῶν, of the Camuliani, light is brought by what Ortelius observes in his geographical Thesaurus; which consult at the words Camuliani episcopi and Camulienses.

Benignus, priest, confessor, entered on this day by Dempster: who he is we wish to be informed.

Eric VI, king of Denmark, killed by the treachery of the faithless, is thus recorded on this day by Greven among the Usuardine auctaria: "Likewise of Eric of holy memory, king of Dacia and martyr." Where by "of holy memory" he indicates sufficiently that he was not acknowledged as a Saint even in his time. The Life of St. Canute from Saxo, towards the end, at the day 7 January, can be seen, and likewise Pontanus, page 336.

Urraca, a Spanish nun and abbess, is also honoured with the title of Blessed by Henriquez and Chalemot, which we should wish proved by other arguments, which certainly would not have been neglected by Tamayo.

"Julian, Alexius, James and companions, martyrs, for the cult of the image of our Saviour Jesus Christ, set up on Carmel of Jerusalem at the Golden Gate, suffered many hardships and martyrdom in the year DCCXL." So Philip the Visitandine relates in the Acies bene ordinata.

A Claudian, I know not who, and companions, martyrs, added in some Ms. annotation of the Charterhouse of Brussels to Greven: where they belong, it has not been possible to conjecture sufficiently.

Cono, disciple of St. Hildemar, from abbot of Arrouaise in Artois bishop of Palestrina, celebrated for his legations to Gaul and to Syria, is praised in the Life of his holy Master at 13 January, chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8, in the last of which it is said that, his spirit having been called forth to God on the fifth day before the Ides of August, he honoured Palestrina, the city of his see, with the clod of his body in the year of the Lord MCXVII. The illustrious deeds of the Man are established for us, but about his cult there is deep silence everywhere.

"At Limoges, the natal day of St. Maximus, martyr, conspicuous more from the ancient cult of his earned crown than from a history of his life or death." These are the words of Saussay on this day in the Supplement of his Martyrology, which I should wish suggested to us a little more explicitly; as also what he means by his present-day announcement: "At Bourges, the octave of St. Stephen the Protomartyr."

"In England, the deposition of blessed Hugh, bishop of Ely and confessor, most illustrious for sanctity and learning," is entered on this day by Wion in the Benedictine Martyrology. In the annotations he recites an illustrious eulogy of him from Matthew of Westminster and Matthew Paris; of whom the latter was a contemporary of this Hugh, who departed in the year of Christ 1254, on the 9th (or, as Wharton prefers in Anglia sacra, part 1, page 635, on the 6th) day of August; the former a whole century younger: he adds also Polydore Vergil in the English History, book 16, towards the end; but he errs: for it is not this Hugh who is treated of there, but Hugh Balsham, who, after William, succeeded ours in the see of Ely. Wion was followed by Dorganius, Menard, Bucelinus, all the Benedictine Martyrologists; besides by Wilson in the English Martyrology, and him in turn Ferrarius in the general Catalogue of the Saints. But since the age of all these is such that it cannot of itself suffice to assert a public and lawful cult of Hugh; and since from elsewhere, whether from the authors whom they themselves cite on their behalf or from others, however old, no trace of a once public cult has so far occurred to us, it was a matter of scruple to give him a place among the Saints here; although we would wish nothing to be taken away from the most deserved praises of so great a Man, whatever Godwin the Heterodox may mutter after his own bent in the Commentary on the prelates of England, page 313. Would that it were at least established that this Hugh is ours, in whose name and feast the church of Avor in the diocese of Bourges rejoices on this day, as Catherinot rather timidly suspects in the Sanctuary of Bourges, page 28! But this was very recently examined in vain in the place itself.

The deposition of Bl. Simeon the Achaean is announced on this day in the Benedictine Menologium in Bucelinus, at Reichenau, with an eulogy or compendium of his Life, from the writings of John Egon, Prior in the monastery of Reichenau, who finally ended his life in the year 1643. We have this Egon's work on the illustrious Men of the monastery of Augia major or Reichenau, written in the year 1630 and published in print by Bernhard Pez in the year 1721 in the Thesaurus anecdotorum novissimus, volume 1, part 3, column 627. There Simeon the monk is treated of as Blessed at column 634 and column 770, and his Life, written by an old monk of Reichenau, though anonymous, is said to survive today. And this we received by the kindness of our Gamans, copied from the Ms. codex of Sts. Ulric and Afra at Augsburg, and indeed rather wretchedly and ineptly composed. It would nevertheless be given, if we could have dug out the public cult of this Simeon either from it, or from Egon, or from Bucelinus, or from elsewhere. For now let it suffice meanwhile to have made mention of him here.

The words of Tamayo, conceived in this manner, may be entered here: "In the universal Church, the Vigil of St. Laurence, martyr, who suffered at Rome, a Spaniard by origin; which is granted generally to no Saint except the Apostles, on account of the remarkable triumph of the combatant and the celebrated trophy of the archdeacon."

Rayner of the Order of Preachers, from Cantimpré, Raissius rightly honours with the title of venerable in the Natales of the Saints of Belgium.

Nicholas of the same Order, formerly celebrated at Bruges, he calls Blessed with a remarkable eulogy, which in Marchese (who makes no mention of Rayner) is adorned from various sources. And then in the same there follow

Michael Archangel Nanni, whose life is described at greater length. Then

Sister Philippa of Jesus, to whom in the Belgian Annus sanctus and in the German Viridarium is added

Dominica of St. Jerome.

Thomas, Bonaventure, John, Richard, Martyrs in England; Algot, confessor and eminent doctor, at Skara in Gothland; Toribio of Benavente, confessor, in Mexico; Anne of the Conception, virgin, at Lisbon in Portugal: these are honoured with the title of Blessed by Arthur in the Franciscan Martyrology, and the last also in the Gynaeceum.

Hueber, more prudent, abstains from every title, adding to those already mentioned

Octavian Penterieder, a Bavarian, at Grand Cairo.

Lucy of Caltagirone at Salerno in Sicily; to whom are added the Capuchin Fathers

Bonaventure of Recanati in the March of Ancona.

Peter the Pomeranian near Genoa.

John of Soria at Rome.

Jerome of Reggio in Calabria.

Ivo of Multa in Sicily.

Bernardine of Ascoli near the town of San Giovanni Rotondo.

Augustine of Pesto near Bologna.

Alexander of Terni near Assisi.

Angelo of Florence in Tuscany.

Andrew of Sicily near Naples.

Alexander of Catania in the same place.

Peter of Urbino, and John Baptist of Ascoli in the March of Ancona.

St. Auctor, bishop of Metz, is recorded on this day, not in his place, in the Lübeck-Cologne edition; the other Usuardine codices better entered him on the following day, 10 August.

The memory of Irene (τῆς νέας) the younger, in the Holy Apostles (it is a sacred building at Constantinople, on which see Du Cange, book 4, from page 105, in his Constantinopolis Christiana), is found in our transcript from the Menaeum of the convent of St. Louis of the Friars Preachers at Paris. One of the same name occurs on the 7th day of this month; from which she was deferred to the 13th day of the same month, as may be seen among the Passed Over at the said 7th day. Consult therefore what is to be said at the day 13 August.

Maurilius, archbishop of Rouen, a man truly most worthy of all remembrance, is not yet known ever to have been honoured with any sacred cult in that proper church of his, since in the Breviaries, whether of the year 1627 or others, no memory of him whatever exists. By Menard and other Benedictines he is honoured with the title of Blessed, which Mabillon also claims for him in his saeculum VI, part 2, from page 222. Saussay, a quite munificent collector of the Saints, had gone before; but the more clear-sighted Castellanus dared to ascribe to him no other appellation than that of venerable, announcing thus on this day in his universal Martyrology: "At Rouen, of the VENERABLE Maurelius, bishop, to whom John of Avranches dedicated his book on the ecclesiastical Offices." We do not think it open to us to give him another title until clearer arguments of cult are added, referring the whole matter meanwhile for examination, with the French Legendary, to the day on which treatment of St. Maurilius of Angers will have to be given, 13 September.

"Among the Sequani, of the holy martyrs Amor and Viator," is the present-day announcement of the new Martyrology of the church of Paris of the year 1727, taken, as at least may be gathered, from the circumstances given by Castellanus on this very day in his universal Martyrology, where he records them as slain by a cruel death, with the note "Fifth century" placed in both. Whence Castellanus alone dug out that pair of Martyrs I for my part do not know, and I have accordingly run through the ancient and more recent sacred Fasti solicitously but in vain, to find even a trace of those whom, namely, Saussay himself was altogether ignorant of. There were among our papers some rather obscure aids, once sent by Fr. Chifflet, in which for this very day Amor or Amator and Viator were entered in the suburb of Lyons, just as they are announced in the Usuardine Codex of Charlieu, but on whose burial these words were noted as inscribed: "To God the Best and Greatest, and to the holy Martyrs Amor and Viator, Theban soldiers"; as those whom popular tradition reports, having escaped by flight from the common slaughter at Agaunum, to have found the crown of martyrdom in the village called Cevenna, whence others will have it that they were translated by St. Guntram the king to the place which is now named after St. Amor, Saint-Amour; who accordingly must belong not to the fifth century but to the third. And this is the sole and only information about both Pairs of the same name which has reached us so far: for what Baldesano wrote of these two Thebans in his Italian history is of very little value, nay of none. If more distinct and more solid things are added, there will be a place where the whole matter, quite ambiguous, as is evident enough, and entangled, can be examined a little more accurately, at least when the Thebans are treated of, 22 September.

"At Rome in the cemetery, the deposition of Diunisus, bishop," is the announcement of the Hieronymian codices, otherwise twisted in that of Echternach. What is indicated here Fiorentini asks. But it matters little to us, who, with the Roman Martyrology and other sacred Fasti, shall treat of him on the day on which he is venerated in the Church, 26 December.