ON SS. ELIAS AND STEPHEN THE DEACON AND POLLIO, MARTYRS AT ROME
BY J. P.
The Martyrology which, as most ancient and marked with the name of St. Jerome, d'Achery published in volume 4, page 669, reports this class of three Martyrs: At Alexandria, the birthday of the holy Polyenus, Serapion, Justilla. For this last there is put in Fiorentini Hermes. In the same place in the notes only these two are written: At Alexandria, of Policus, of Serapion. But from the Martyrology of Corbie there are presently subjoined in the same place those three whom we have recited from d'Achery. The second class in d'Achery is different from the first, and is thus announced: At Rome, on the Old Salarian Way, in the cemetery, the birthday of the holy Hermes, Basilleus, Elias, Stephen the deacon, Pollio. The Martyrology of Augsburg, among the abridged Hieronymian Martyrologies printed among us, differs from that of d'Achery: At Rome, of Hermes, Stephen, Polyenus. In the same Augsburg Martyrology, after the announcement of St. Vivianus of Saintes, of
whom we treat on this day, mention is made of Perasius and Abundius, Martyrs. This last is perhaps the same whom from Greven, under the name of Abundus, we report among these Passed Over, and whom together with Abundantius we defer to the XVI of September. Of St. Hermes, Martyr of Rome, we treat on this day: the name Basilleus is suspect to us, as being not that of a Saint but of the cemetery, as is said at greater length in the same St. Hermes, §2, number 24. Further, we have announced the Saints above under the title of Martyrs, because in the Hieronymian copies they are wont to be so noted. To these we have not added Perasius, who was noted in one copy, and without a clear and distinct notice of the place. St. Hermes we have set down under doubt, who is perhaps the Roman one, and wrongly applied to Alexandria.