ON ST. BASILIUS IN ARMENIA.
CommentaryBasilius, in Armenia (St.)
G. H.
Two more ancient manuscript Martyrologies establish his place and birthday with remarkable agreement, one of which is the Roman one under the name of St. Jerome, St. Basilius in Armenia the other that of Reichenau; in which is read: In Armenia, of Basilius. His Acts, like those of many others, lie hidden. To Armenia Minor is attributed by most Sebaste or Sebastia, a city ennobled by the contests of very many Martyrs especially under Diocletian and Licinius, which Ptolemy and Pliny assign to Cappadocia, as we noted on the third of February in the Life of St. Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste and Martyr, section 1. Hermannus Greven in his Additions to Usuard,
besides the Basilianus who suffered in Campania, records another Basilianus, and incorrectly joins him to the Martyr St. Poenes of Apamea: whether different from the St. Basilius to be discussed on 12 February? we believe this to be the same Basilius who suffered in Armenia. We shall treat of St. Basilius the monk on the twelfth of February; where we shall also raise the further question whether that one should truly be considered different from this.