Titus

ON ST. TITUS, DEACON AND MARTYR,

AT ROME.

From the Roman Martyrology.

In the year 426.

Titus, deacon and martyr, at Rome (St.)

BY J. B. S.

The St. Titus set before us is most certainly unknown to all Martyrologists older than the Roman edition of Baronius, Are his sacred bones nor is there in the sacred calendars any memory of him older than that which, drawn out of the Chronicle of Prosper, Baronius set down in the Roman Martyrology on this day; although, as Castellan rightly observes, Prosper does not indicate the day of his death, but is content to have noted the year only, namely in the consulship of Theodosius for the twelfth time and Valentinian Augustus for the second, which is the year of Christ 426. Prosper there treats in few words of the slaying of Patroclus, bishop of Arles: which crime was referred to the secret command of Felix, master of the soldiery, by whose instigation it was believed that Titus the deacon also, a holy man, distributing moneys to the poor at Rome, was slain.

[2] in the diocese of Milan? And these few things only were to be said, had not Peter Paul Bosca, often praised by us, suggested something of his own in his native Martyrology, in these words: At Rome, of St. Titus, levite and martyr, whose body the faithful devoutly venerate at Casorate near Arsago in the diocese of Milan; piously believing

(as I think) that the sacred relics of this very St. Titus, received from Rome, were laid away in that church — which the said Martyrologist testifies that he received from the records of the parish church.