ON THE HOLY MARTYRS OF ALEXANDRIA MAMMES, DISCUS OR DISEUS, AND PERHAPS DISCA AND MAMMITA, WITH THEIR COMPANIONS.
From the Hieronymian Martyrologies.
CommentaryMammes, M., at Alexandria (St.)
Diseus, M., at Alexandria (St.)
J. B. S.
We have already dealt yesterday with Florentinius concerning the confusion of the texts of yesterday and of today in the Hieronymian Martyrologies, when we there reported Orion and Æmillius — who are likewise marked on this day — together with a certain Agnatus; so that accordingly they are to be excluded here, only those being enumerated who are set forth in the title. The Acts of St. Mammes or Mammas, the famous martyr at Cæsarea in Cappadocia, are illustrated on this day; and besides him there occur others of the same or nearly the same name in the Hieronymian codices, both on this day and in the classes already gone before on the VI of May and the XVI and XVII of July, on occasion of whom we have more than once repeated that Florentinius made many observations. Who, moreover, that Mammes may be who in the said Hieronymian Martyrologies is assigned to Alexandria together with Discus or Diseus, Disca, Mammita, and their companions, is uncertain; nor do I sufficiently distinguish whether here another Orion is named, different from yesterday's, or even from another martyr of the same name, likewise of Alexandria, of whom we treated on the X of February. Whether indeed Diseus is to be written for Discus, and Disca with Mammita added, I have nothing whereby I may determine; this one thing I thought must be guarded against, that no martyr from the Hieronymian Martyrologies should be passed over unnamed.