ON SS. THEODOTUS, RUFINA, AND AMMIA,
AT CAESAREA IN CAPPADOCIA.
Third century.
CommentaryTheodotus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (St.)
Rufina, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (St.)
Ammia, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (St.)
J. P.
I know indeed of no Martyrology which marks these Saints, except the Roman, which announces them thus: At Caesarea in Cappadocia, of Saints Theodotus, Rufina, and Ammia: of whom the first two were the parents of St. Mamas the martyr, whom Rufina bore in prison, and Ammia brought up. This holy Martyr I gave on the XVII of August, in volume III of that month, page 423 and following. But since nothing occurs from any other source concerning his parents, or the woman who was said to have brought him up, wherewith I might usefully detain the reader, it remains for me to send him to the Commentary and to such Acts as exist of St. Mamas, where he will find what has been said concerning these on his occasion. Let him therefore look there at pages 424, 435, 436. I have marked the place as Caesarea in Cappadocia along with the Roman Martyrology, or rather have left it as marked by that same Martyrology. I have placed them in the third century, because I assigned St. Mamas, in the said Commentary, to the reign of Aurelian, which century Castellanus also notes.