CONCERNING THE HOLY SYRIAN MARTYRS ADVENTUS, XYSTUS, POMPONIUS, GEMELLA, VICTOR, GENEROSUS, VICTOR, GEMELLIANUS, CUTURNUS, AND CASTULA.
CommentaryAdventus, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Xystus, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Pomponius, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Gemella, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Victor, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Generosus, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Victor, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Gemellianus, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Cuturnus, Martyr in Syria (Saint) Castula, Martyr in Syria (Saint)
G. H.
This generous band of pious athletes shed their lives for the faith of Christ in Syria. In Syria, St. Adventus Of St. Adventus alone there is mention in the ancient and brief manuscript of the monastery of St. Maximin near Trier, where he is called Aventus, as also in Hermann Greven in his supplement to Usuard. To Adventus as their leader, the rest are joined in the most ancient manuscript Roman Martyrology attributed to St. Jerome, And companions, in which these words are read: "In Syria, of Adventus, Xystus, Pomponius, Gemella, Victor, Generosus, likewise Victor, Gemellianus, Cuturnus, Castula." We gave another Castula on January 25, but assigned to Capua in Campania. Several Victors, Another Castula elsewhere, several Victors. as here there are two, are venerated as Martyrs elsewhere; but none of the remaining companions has been mentioned by us until now, so that for that very reason, as long as the Acts remain hidden, we should seem to be safer from confusion of names. The Victor whom Galesinius adds as a companion of Joseph who suffered at Antioch, we judge to pertain to this class. But the Castula who is added to the Martyrs of Terni, expressed a second time in the same manuscript of St. Jerome and in certain Martyrologies, is in other sources Castulus, whom the people of Terni venerate.