Saint Micaiah the elder, prophet.
St. Demetrius, Martyr, in Africa.
St. Fortunatus, Martyr, in Syria.
St. Eusebius, Martyr, in Syria.
St. Titulus, Martyr, in Syria.
St. Conditor, Martyr, in Syria.
St. Euticius, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Paul, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Heraclus, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Possessor, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Parmus, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Disseus, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Hermas, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Prospolinus, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Protalamus, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Bermias, Martyr, of uncertain place.
St. Heraclus, Martyr, of uncertain place.
Three other Martyrs, of uncertain place.
St. Eusebius, Martyr, in Palestine.
St. Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea in Syria.
St. Ursicius, Martyr, under Maximinus.
St. Felix, Bishop and Martyr, at Gardumum in the Tyrol.
St. Eusebius, priest, at Rome.
St. Callistus, Bishop and Martyr, at Todi in Umbria.
St. Athanasia, widow and hegumena.
Bl. Albert, Bishop of Ferrara.
The Holy Martyrs of Otranto.
"Of St. Mercolinus of the Order of Preachers": these are words among the Ms. Additions of the Charterhouse of Brussels to Greven on this day, which you would seek elsewhere in vain: for he is written in Marchese to have died on 24 January, where so many wonderful things are brought forward about his sanctity and miracles that his cult can scarcely be doubted. But the whole matter is now to be referred to the day already mentioned, 24 January.
The translation of St. Casimir made on this day was noted by Fr. Rocalowicz, a Pole. Treatment of him has been given at sufficient length on the natal day itself, 4 March.
St. Eusebius of Cremona, as a disciple of St. Jerome, is entered on this day by Greven and others; but treatment of him was long since given at 5 March.
St. Aetius, bishop of Barcelona and martyr, is entered on this day by Domenech and Tamayo: since everything else about him is hidden, see what we said, common to him, of his predecessor St. Victor, 4 April.
St. Felix is entered separately on this day by Greven in these words: "Likewise of St. Felix," where other codices join to him a companion, Fortunatus; and indeed Ferrarius treats of both on this very day in the Catalogue of the Saints of Italy. By our predecessors among the Passed Over on 14 May they were referred to 11 June, on which day, from the little Roman, Ado, Usuard and others, with the Roman Martyrology, their Acts and what concerns their translations were abundantly illustrated. Nor are the same to be repeated here from the Hieronymian codices on this day, although some codices read Fortunata for Fortunatus, and Vincentia is added: which may easily have crept in there in place of the name of the city of Vicenza, where the Saints are also venerated, as see at the day already mentioned, 11 June.
The deposition of Maxentius, abbot, is marked in the Ms. Additions of the Charterhouse of Brussels to Greven, but wrongly on this day. He is venerated, and treatment of him has been given, on 26 June.
St. John Cassian Maurolycus and Ferrarius record on this day from I know not where; he is venerated at Marseilles, and treatment of him has been given on 23 July.
Sts. Justus and Pastor are marked on this day in the Usuardine codex of Hagenau; the day on which they are venerated, and on which treatment of them has been given, is known, 6 August.
St. Quiriacus and the companion Martyrs of Augsburg, I know not why Ferrarius drew back hither in the general Catalogue. Treatment of them has already been given on the day on which they are venerated, 12 August.
"The Vigil of the Assumption of St. Mary" is the announcement of Usuard and of almost all the Martyrologies. To what it is to be brought back we shall say on the following day. Meanwhile our observation on Usuard can be seen.
St. Peregrinus, marked on this day in the Vatican Usuardine codex: with which other among so many Saints of the same name he is to be confused, no one would easily divine.
A British Saint, unknown to Saussay and Albert le Grand as well as to us, Castellanus brings forward on this day in these French words, turned into Latin: "At Redon in the diocese of Vannes, of St. Riovennus, priest, monk of St. Saviour's, of whom it is written that he walked with dry feet upon the waters of the river Vilaine." We ask for a little more light and authority before we dare to place Riovennus among the Saints.
Eusebius of Emesa, among several Saints of this name, is marked on this day by Maurolycus alone, in these words: "Likewise Eusebius of Emesa, bishop, who wrote much against the Jews and the gentiles, of whom St. Jerome." But these things do not prove his sanctity, since it is established from elsewhere that he was suspected of Arianism: nor indeed is his memory kept in any sacred Fasti, either among the Greeks or among the Latins.
Another announcement of the same Maurolycus is: "At the river Jordan near Jericho, the rapture of Elijah the Prophet."
What our Ms. Florarium of the Saints means on this day by these words: "At Lyons, of St. Arnulph, bishop and confessor, in the year of salvation MLX," I confess I do not understand, for it has not so far been possible to find a bishop of this name among the people of Lyons.
Simeon, a Vallombrosan monk, I find only in the three monastic writers Wion, Dorganius and Menard; but I do not know why on this day, for Eudossio Loccatelli, who first honoured him with the title of Blessed, marks neither the year nor the day of his death. He says indeed that he suffered much in order to escape the pains of Purgatory, and that after death he was honoured with a fitting burial by Blaise, the abbot general, who presided at the beginning of the sixteenth century; but of an elevation of the body made afterwards, of miracles or of cult, he makes no mention by a word. If perhaps he is now venerated, let the Vallombrosans inform us, so that we may treat elsewhere in his place of Simon (so he is called by Loccatelli), just as we have not undiligently illustrated the deeds of other Saints of that Order.
"In Ireland, the passion of forty monks of the monastery of Maigue, of the Cistercian Order, who happily fell together with their abbot for the faith. For when the heretics burst into their monastery with an armed band, they, awaiting the enemy before the venerable Sacrament, fearlessly cast themselves upon their swords, and inviting one another to bear death for the love of Christ, ended their life by the cutting off of their heads. But on the same day, their heads having been miraculously taken up again, they sweetly sang Vespers in honour of the Virgin Mother of God in the choir." So Chrysostom Henriquez, who I should wish had added what would suffice for the time of the event and to prove the cult: certainly in the Irish Kalendars of the Saints not a word occurs about that class. Bucelinus narrates the matter at greater length, and says it happened under Elizabeth, queen of England, the most notorious persecutor of Catholics.
Silvester the Scot, in Camerarius on this day: whether he is venerated as a Saint I wish to be informed from elsewhere.
Placilla Augusta will not yet be counted among the Saints on the authority of Ferrarius.
Nonius of Cuenca is said by Marietta to have died with a repute of sanctity in the year 1477, and this was enough for Ferrarius to place him among the Saints.
There follows in the same last place Betta, called by others the Apostle of the Meni, of whom Dempster and Camerarius also on this day; but he was long since passed over by our predecessors on the day 11 February, as see there.
John of St. William, of the Order of Reformed Discalced Friars of St. Augustine in Italy, died on this day in the year 1621, and eight years later various processes were formed for his canonization. So it was noted long ago by our Fr. Papebroch, who also enumerates the processes themselves; but it has nowhere been found so far that the honours of the Saints were granted to him. If I am mistaken, let those whom it concerns inform me.
"The bringing back of the holy Cross into the palace" is marked in the printed Menaea with two verses. Rader, in the Ms. observations which we keep on the said Menaea, notes that the whole once Catholic East was greatly devoted to the cult of the Holy Cross, from what is said on 28 February, 6 March, 31 July, on this day 14 August, and 14 September. He thinks, however, that the translation of the same from Jerusalem to Constantinople is treated of here, of which Baronius, volume 8 of the Annals, at the year of Christ 633. The same Rader observes, however, that it may be that in this place the Menaea speak only of the particle of the Holy Cross placed in the second year of Heraclius in the column of the Forty Martyrs at Constantinople, of which the Alexandrian Chronicle, page 879: of the column and church of the Forty Holy Martyrs Du Cange treats in book 4 of Constantinopolis Christiana, page 134. But in the said Chronicle it is noted that the venerable cross was placed, not a particle of it.
"The translation of the venerable relics of our most blessed Father Theodosius, hegumen of the Pechersk, at Kiev, which took place in the year MXCI under the grand duke Vsevolod, son of Yaroslav, John being hegumen. He was placed in the church of the Holy Mother of God, which he himself built." This announcement I extract from our Ms. Slavo-Russian Menologium of Sparwenfeld. In volume 1 of May, page 360, among the Passed Over at the 3rd day of the same month, we advised that the death of Theodosius of Kiev is indicated in the Muscovite Kalendar kept at Amsterdam with Laurens vander Hem; that it appears likewise from the very size of the historical image attached that his cult is most celebrated among the Muscovites; and accordingly we indicated then that we desired to be more fully informed about his life, age and sanctity. We confess indeed that Theodosius is marked in the above announcement with several circumstances; but whether he is the same as him whom we mentioned at 3 May or different, it suffices to have noted here the above about his translation. If meanwhile certain documents about his lawful cult are supplied to us, he can have a place among the Saints to be inserted in the supplement of our Work, when it has been completed.
A certain Nicholas, hermit, at Atri in Abruzzo Ulteriore of the kingdom of Naples, I find noted in the Itinerary of our Janning, where his body is exposed above the altar, having died on the Vigil of the Assumption of Blessed Mary; whose chest they open on the feast of the Assumption, and exhibit the body for the people to see. He also observed the hands covered with skin and dry flesh. When and where he lived, what he did, when he died, by what authority he is so exposed, we wish to be informed before a place is granted him in this work.
The memory of St. Lucius, martyr, occurs in our Greek copies from the Ms. Synaxarion of Sirmond and from the Turin codex. Various Martyrs of the same name we have long since given in our Work. But of what kind this one is you would ask of us in vain.
St. Orosius, of whom there is discourse on this day where we treat of St. Eusebius, Tamayo claims for the Spaniards as a priest of Tarragona, on the authority of Dexter, which may be enough said.
William, abbot of Vicogne, is entered in the Natales of the Premonstratensian Saints by John Chrysostom vander Sterre, and is praised chiefly for his munificence towards the poor. I should wish he had shown that he is venerated as a Saint in the aforesaid abbey.
A certain Susanna noted by Bollandus from I know not what Kalendar; who or whence she is, I confess is unknown to me.
The emperor Tiberius II is celebrated by Smidius: but other authority is needed for him to be ascribed to the Saints.
Meinhard, apostle and first bishop of Livonia, is deservedly praised by Arnold, abbot of Lübeck, a contemporary, in the Chronicles of the Slavs, book 7, chapters 8 and 9; likewise by Krantz, Wandalia, book 7, chapter 10, and Saxonia, book 7, chapter 13, and by other authors, even Baronius at the year of Christ 1186, number 20, where he gives him the epithet of Saint, which he whom he cites does not do, nor anyone, as far as we know, a little older. About his sanctity, however, we are by no means troubled here; but we require arguments of an ancient and public cult, such as are not produced by those who inserted him in their Menologies at this day, Henriquez and Bucelinus, who claim him for their Order by I know not what right; as also I do not know whence they drew the day or month of his death; however much he is also entered on the same day by Castellanus, but with the title of Venerable only.
Fulbert, confessor, is found among the Additions of the Charterhouse of Brussels to Greven: if he meant to indicate him of Chartres, he was long since passed over at 10 April.
What Theodoric, confessor, is indicated in the same place, I confess I do not know.
Maurelian, who follows there, is so far unknown to me among the Saints.
"Bl. Anselm of Tabor and Eustace of Hebron. Bl. Anselm, Prior of the Order of Carmel, restored the monastery on Mount Tabor in the year MCCXII, in which, dying and buried there, he shone with very many miracles, as Seger Pauli relates, and the Kalendar. There follows Bl. Eustace, another disciple of St. Brocard, sent from Carmel to Mount Hebron as Prior, the first to cause the Rule of St. Albert to be observed by his brethren. He restored a dead citizen to life, dying about the year MCCXXI. He is venerated as Blessed in the Carmelite Kalendar." These are the words of Philip the Visitandine in the Acies bene ordinata.
Fr. William and Fr. John of Arles are praised by Marchese in the Dominican Diarium.
John of St. Mary, martyr, at Meaco in Japan; Sanctus, confessor, at Scotanetum in the territory of Pesaro; Laudus of Taranto, confessor, at Andria in Apulia; James de Primadiciis, confessor, at Bologna; Laurence of Fabriano, confessor, on Mount Alverna in Etruria; John of Calahorra, confessor, at Tribulum in the territory of Palencia; Christopher of Campobasso at Histomum in Apulia; Ursula of the Conception, virgin: these are honoured with the title of blessed by Arthur in the Franciscan Martyrology, and the last also in the Gynaeceum.
Hueber adds that she was of the Order of Poor Clares, by whom besides, but without a title, are marked
Gregory of Neostadium, slaughtered by the Turks on the borders of Poland.
Frances Mary and Beatrice, Poor Clares, near Cartagena.
Elizabeth Lopez near Villanueva in Castile.
Munnera, widow, Tertiary, at Lorca.
St. Simplician, bishop of Milan, was not rightly marked on this day by Galesinius: he belongs to 16 August.
St. Eberhard or Everard, first abbot or restorer of the monastery of Einsiedeln in the Black Forest, is marked on this day among the Saints by Castellanus in his universal Martyrology, but in the monastic Fasti of Wion, Dorganius and Menard he is entered on different days; and by Bucelinus, as you will find noted among the Passed Over on 11 March, he is marked on 22 August. It is established that not only the day of his death but also his cult is uncertain, whatever is also entered on this day among the Saints of the Order by Mabillon, saeculum V, from page 241. He narrates there that he was in that monastery in the year 1683; and yet he exhibits no indication from which you might conjecture that Eberhard's annual festivity is kept either with an Office or with a Mass, or that any relics of his are exposed for veneration, or finally that any miracles of his are related. Our predecessors, meanwhile, seem long ago to have acknowledged him as a saint at 21 January, on the occasion of St. Meinrad or Meginard. We defer treating of him, with Bucelinus, to the day to which we said he was long since referred, 22 August.
The festivity of St. Bartholomew the Apostle was found in some Ms. of the Queen of Sweden. He is venerated by the Church, and treatment of him will be given, on 24 August.
Sts. Abundius and Irenaeus, I know not why, are placed on this day in the Florentine Usuardine Codex: they belong to the day on which treatment of them will have to be given with the Roman, 26 August.
St. Werenfrid, the most zealous companion of St. Willibrord in the apostolate, is marked on this day by Greven, Molanus and many other Martyrologists here and there, but he is to be referred to the day on which he is constantly venerated among the people of Utrecht with a double Office, 27 August.
St. Sergius, Pope, Castellanus honours on this day with the title of venerable, as if he did not know that he is announced in the Usuardine auctaria and in the Roman Martyrology itself on 9 September.
The sacred remains of St. Crescentius, a little boy, son of Bl. Eushymius, brought from Rome, Tamayo asserts rest honourably in the monastery of the Minors of Mons Caelius in Carpetania, which I should not easily believe. What is to be said of that identity will be examined on the day on which the said Martyr is venerated, 14 September.
St. Stanislaus Kostka of the Society of Jesus Ferrarius did not rightly mark on this day, since he died on the 15th, as we shall say on the following day, when we shall refer him to the day on which he is venerated, 13 November.
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