St. Hippolytus, Martyr, at Rome.
St. Concordia, Martyr, at Rome.
XIX other Martyrs, at Rome.
St. Cassian, Martyr, of Imola.
St. Cassian, bishop and Martyr, of Todi.
St. Centolla, Martyr, at Burgos in Spain.
St. Helena, Martyr, at Burgos in Spain.
St. Junianus, abbot, in the province of Poitou in Gaul.
St. Radegund, queen, afterward a nun at Poitiers.
St. Radegund or Radiana, virgin, in Swabia.
St. Laudulf, bishop and confessor, at Évreux in Gaul.
St. Maximus, abbot and confessor, at Constantinople.
St. Anastasius, monk and confessor, at Constantinople.
St. Anastasius, likewise a monk and confessor, at Constantinople.
St. Wigbert, priest and confessor, in Germany.
St. Zwentibold, king and confessor, at Susteren in the territory of Jülich.
St. Ludolf, abbot of Corvey in Westphalia.
Bl. Druthmar, abbot of Corvey in Westphalia.
Bl. Gertrude, daughter of St. Elizabeth, abbess of Altenberg in Germany.
St. Hippolytus, martyr in Africa, Canisius, or rather Walasser, in his German Martyrology subjoined on this day to the Roman of the same name: but he does not belong to this day, but to that on which treatment of him was given long ago, 23 February.
St. Macarius, bishop of Jerusalem, the Ms. Florarium of the Saints wrongly intruded on this day. See of him 10 March.
St. Eberhard, from a celebrated Count a monk of the Order of St. Benedict in Swabia, I know not why is recorded on this day by Menard alone in the Martyrology of his Order. By others he is better entered on the day on which his Acts were long since illustrated, 7 May.
St. Guibert, founder of Gembloux, also has a place among the various confusions of this day in our Ms. Florarium of the Saints. But treatment of him was long since given on 23 May.
The translation of the holy martyrs Sisinnius, Martyrius and Alexander is marked in Greven; of them treatment was given on 29 May.
Sts. Sergius and Stephen, martyrs, are noted in some places among the Greeks on this day; but we gave them with the great printed Menaea on 12 August.
The holy martyrs Pamphilus and Capito are noted on this day in our Ms. Sirmond-Chifflet Supplement to the printed Menaea, and also in our Ambrosian copies. Of them treatment was given on the day 12 August.
A certain Bernard, monk, who died at Clairvaux on this day, Henriquez and Chalemot extol with many praises, both adorning him with the title of Blessed, which I wish proved from elsewhere before I dare to grant him a place in this Work.
Henriquez adds the following, which I copy out: "In Spain, the falling asleep of Martin of Logroño of pious memory, first Prior of the monastery of Mount Sion, a man of admirable sanctity and purity."
Latino Malabranca Orsini, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, is extolled on this day with wonderful praises and adorned with the title of Blessed by Marchese in the sacred Dominican Diarium. About his cult there is deep silence up to now.
Jordan of St. Stephen is recorded as an illustrious martyr in Japan in the Belgian Annus sanctus of the Order and in the German Viridarium.
St. Columbus of Lérins is entered separately on this day by Bucelinus in the Benedictine Menologium. Everything that is known of him has been said in yesterday's Acts of St. Porcarius etc.
Henry Clauss, abbot of Wiblingen, is entered on this day as a venerable man by the same Bucelinus.
The finding of the body of the Venerable Thomas à Kempis, author, as is reported, of the golden little book on the Imitation of Christ, and its translation made to Zwolle on 3 August of the year 1672 in the old style, and so on this 13th day in the new style, deserves to have a place here on account of various wonderful things written in Flemish by an eyewitness, the Rev. D. Arnold Waeyer, and sent here, which Papebroch, having turned them into Latin, long since entered in the Propylaeum of May among the Paralipomena, page 108, to be of use if a man of such illustrious memory should at some time be inserted by the Church in the sacred Fasti.
Anne de Meleun, daughter of William, prince of Épinoy, is entered among the Venerable by Castellanus, as one who, illustrious for many excellent examples of virtues at St. Waltrude's at Mons in Hainaut, was afterwards foundress of the Hospitaller Sisters at Baugé in Anjou, where she rested in a holy end.
Wigbert or Wigberecht, companion of St. Egbert, Molanus and Miraeus proclaim on this day, from Pseudo-Marcellinus, as a Saint and a martyr in Fosteland, and from these Wilson, Ferrarius, Menard and Ghini. Better in Bede, book 5, chapter 10, he is said to have preached to the Frisians for two years and to have returned to his former tranquillity in his homeland: the same things are related in the Lives of St. Swithbert, volume 1 of March, page 72, and of St. Egbert, volume III of April, page 314. Papebroch, however, noted that it is nowhere found that he was venerated as a Saint: certainly he is not known in Dempster or Camerarius. See volume 1 of March, where St. Swithbert is treated of, page 72.
"Potentianus, bishop," is so formed in Greven in the auctaria of Usuard, where we long since noted that Pontianus is without doubt to be understood, of which name there are several other saints. I should believe that he is meant here who is marked on this day in the Hieronymian codices.
The memory of the empress Irene was referred to this day among the Passed Over at the 7th day of this month; to which was also deferred the commemoration of Irene (τῆς νέας) the younger in the Holy Apostles, of whom among the Passed Over on the day 9 August; these are to be examined here a little more fully. Our Sirmond-Chifflet Supplement to the Menaea published in print notes on this day the following, which we render thus from the Greek into Latin: "On the same day, the memory of the celebrated and most blessed empress Irene, foundress of the venerable monastery of the Almighty Saviour Christ, who on account of the holy and angelic habit was surnamed Xene (that is, Guest), nun." A long eulogy of the same is subjoined in the same place. With the aforesaid announcement agree the printed Menaea and the Sirleto Menologium, in which, however, in place of "Xene, nun," "Irene, nun" is put. In the Supplement just cited, at the day 7 August, these things are marked, which we interpret thus in Latin: "On the same day, the memory of our Empresses Pulcheria" (of whom treatment will be given on 10 September) "and Irene, held in pious honour. Their solemnity is performed in the Holy Apostles," the most celebrated church indeed at Constantinople. John Cinnamus, book 1 of the Histories, page 5 of the royal Paris edition of the year 1670, praises her thus: "John" (son of the emperor Alexius Comnenus, and himself) "emperor, had taken to wife Irene, daughter of Vladislaus" (king of Hungary), "a woman of singular modesty above all, and adorned with virtues. Whatever she acquired from the liberality of her august husband, or from the revenues of the empire, she did not pass on to her children, nor spend on superfluous expenses and immoderate luxury: but, always keeping the same manner of living, she bestowed it on her needier servants. She built a monastery at Constantinople and dedicated it to the Almighty, a work second to none in elegance and amplitude of structure." So Cinnamus. Du Cange, in the notes on the History of Cinnamus, page 430, observes that the monastery of the Pantocrator, or God Almighty, was built by John, and also that it was a monastery of men. Of St. Ladislaus treatment has been given with us in volume V of June, on the 27th day, where of Irene, his daughter, in the Annotations, page 327. But because those things which we related of John Comnenus in the Chronological History of the Patriarchs of Constantinople before volume 1 of August, page 132 *, prove indeed that the emperor and the Patriarch did not then greatly shrink from union with the western Church, but from them it does not yet follow that they were united with the Roman Pontiff. Because, likewise, the said emperor afterwards made war on the Latins, and felt the avenging hand of God; as may be seen in the Annals of Baronius at the year of Christ 1143, namely after, warned by Innocent the Roman Pontiff through a legate, the bishop of Gabala, he had by no means desisted; nay had raged more bitterly even against most holy men (as Otto testifies) dwelling in the desert, it came to pass etc. Because, finally, the Greeks sometimes ascribe to their sacred Fasti heretics, schismatics and others unworthy of the number of the Saints, as is shown in various places in the same Chronological History, on which see its index at the word Menaea; therefore, before we insert this Irene among the Saints of our Work, we wish to be made more certain about her union with the Roman Catholic Church, especially in those dangerous and schismatic times, although we cannot say for certain that she was not united with it. Hence we do not dare to condemn Castellanus, who in the Table of the names of the Saints to his universal Martyrology notes Irene of Constantinople, Religious, as omitted on the day 13 August.
"Frigia, of Antoninus," is the announcement on this day in the most ancient Hieronymian codex of Echternach. The codex of Corbie reads: "At Synnada in Phrygia, the natal day of St. Antony, bishop." The text of Fiorentini from the codices of Lucca has the same position; but reads "of the bishop of Antioch." Almost everything there is disordered on this day, so that you would not easily see which reading is to be preferred. It has pleased me to copy these things out in this place for the moment, until some light shines from elsewhere.
John a Bucca, confessor, at Trogir in Dalmatia; Dominic of Padua, confessor, in Italy; Francis Trivulzio, confessor, in the East; Diego de Luminibus, confessor, at Toledo; Peter of Benavente, confessor, at Aloncolium in Castile; Blaise of Vilalva, confessor, at Murcia in Spain; Margaret Tormella, virgin, at Novara; Catherine de Quadia, virgin, Tertiary, at Ulmetum in the territory of Ávila: these are honoured with the title of Blessed by Arthur in the Franciscan Martyrology, from which Hueber abstains.
To these Hueber adds a certain quite wonderful Frances at Benavente in Galicia (he meant to say in the kingdom of León), with a long eulogy.
Likewise at Paris in France Vincent Mussart, also with a long series of his Life.
He put first, however, the martyrs in Hungary at the year 1545, among whom the chief are Peter of Mezanicum, George of Capronza, Laurence of Berennium, Benedict of Szerdahely and Michael of Pest.
He treats finally of various anonymous persons of the same Order who were cruelly put to death by the heretics in Languedoc in hatred of the Roman Catholic faith.
Higbald, abbot in England, was placed by us, after Mabillon, among the Passed Over on 21 July. On this day he is entered by Molanus among the Usuardine auctaria, whom Ferrarius followed. Greven marked him on 14 December, and Wilson on 22 September. But on these latter days too, unless I am greatly mistaken, he will have to be passed over, just as we said was already done on 21 July.
Sancha Carrillo is wonderfully praised in the Life written in Spanish by Fr. Martín de Roa and translated into Flemish. Whether her beatification has been treated of, or is treated of today, we have not yet learned.
Sanctinus, abbot of the Scots at Vienna, Camerarius enters on this day among his Scottish Saints. Other authority is needed for him to be placed in this work.
The burial of Reinildis, Virgin and Martyr, and of Grimoald and Gondulph, her companions, martyrs, procured on this day, you will find in volume IV of July, on the 16th day, page 177 c.
John Berchmans of the Society of Jesus Miraeus adorns on this day with a brief eulogy in these words: "He was born at Diest in Brabant, at the first milestone from Scherpenheuvel, celebrated for the cult of the Mother of God and for miracles: he died at Rome in the year MDCXXI, with a great fame of innocence and holiness, in his twenty-second year. He was accustomed to say: Three things are dearest to me, namely Christ crucified, the Rosary of the Mother of God and the Rule of the Society of Jesus: with these I shall gladly die." See the Life most accurately written by Fr. Virgilio Cepari.
The commemoration of the empress Eudoxia, who is held in pious memory, occurs on this day in our Sirmond-Chifflet Greek copies, with the place added, "in the Holy Apostles," that is, in the church sacred to the Holy Apostles and, after that of Sophia, the most celebrated and most beautiful, on the testimony of Du Cange, book 4 of Constantinopolis Christiana, chapter 5. In our Latin transcripts from the Ms. Greek Menaea of the Ambrosian library a simple mention of Eudocia is also made on this day. If anyone supplies both certain testimonies about her public cult and distinct ones about her person, deeds and virtues, they may at some time be of use, so that the said Empress may be given her place in our Work.
Hariolf or Herulph, bishop of Langres, as founder of the once celebrated monastery of Ellwangen or Elvacum on the borders of Swabia, Castellanus suggested to me on this day in his universal Martyrology, taken, I think, from the Gallican of Saussay, besides whom I find absolutely no one who has mentioned Hariolf or Herulph among the Saints, not even in all the auctaria of Usuard. Nor indeed do the Sainte-Marthe brothers attend him with such honour, nor is he acknowledged any more by Mabillon; nor does his Life, which we have in Ms. and which Pez lately published in volume 4 of the Thesaurus anecdotorum, display any other title than "Here begins the Life of our Lord Hariolf, bishop of Langres and founder of this place," which for the rest is a mere dialogue, in which a certain Grimold is treated of no less than Hariolf; certainly in the whole context nothing at all occurs from which we may be made more certain either about a due elevation of the body or about a lawful cult ever shown to him in the very church of Ellwangen: besides that the things recorded of him are wrapped in not a few entangled knots, which Corbinian Khamm tried in vain to untie in the first Auctarium of his Hierarchia Augustana. If the people of Ellwangen inform me better, a due place will be given to Hariolf elsewhere. Wishing to anticipate the matter, I had recourse to the Rev. Fr. Rector of our college of Ellwangen, Anton Ephensteiner, who informed me accurately about everything, yet in such a way that from his elegant narration I could by no means gather that a true and lawful ecclesiastical cult was ever shown to the Man, otherwise most deserving, so that, until other things are added, he can so far be placed only in this place.
St. Simplician, bishop of Milan, was wrongly entered on this day by Belinus, Greven, Molanus and others; he is better marked in the Roman on 16 August.
Herneldia and Ermelina our Ms. Florarium of the Saints joins together on this day as holy virgins, of whom I have so far found elsewhere not a shadow, except that Greven alone subjoined to his Usuardine auctaria at the 19th of this month "of Ermelina, virgin," whether another or the same being equally uncertain. Herneldia will remain unknown here. Ermelina, further, I judge can be brought back to the true name Ermelendis, of whose translation Saussay treats at 21 May, warning that her natal day recurs on 20 October; he meant to indicate the day on which treatment of her will without doubt have to be given, 29 October.
The memory of St. Antiochus, bishop of Lyons, is kept in the most ancient Hieronymian codex of Echternach, who in that of Corbie is wrongly expressed as Anocus. In those of Lucca he is passed over; he is praised at length in the Indiculus of Raynaud. This Antiochus is further venerated in Ado, Usuard and the present Roman on the natal day, 15 October.
St. Genesius, bishop of Lyons, I know not where our Ms. Florarium of the Saints found marked on this day. By Saussay and Castellanus he is entered on 1 November.
Sts. Pontianus, bishop, Lucian, Cornelius, Cassian and Calestus with their companions seem to be almost joined to St. Hippolytus in the Hieronymian codices. Pontianus, however, is rightly, if I am not mistaken, taken by Fiorentini for the Roman Pontiff translated to Rome from Sardinia, where he had suffered martyrdom, and laid in the cemetery of Callistus, as the fragment in Bucherius has it, whose natal day recurs on 19 November. Cassian, without doubt of Imola, is wrongly placed here at Rome: treatment of him, however, is given on this day. Whether the others have any association with St. Pontianus will be seen when his Acts are illustrated on the said day, 19 November.
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