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.
CONCERNING ST. FAUSTINA, VIRGIN MARTYR.
CommentaryFaustina, Virgin Martyr (Saint)
I. B.
There was printed in the year 1518, at Leiden in Holland, by the press of John Severinus, a Breviary of the Church of Utrecht, of which we possess only the summer part. St. Faustina, formerly venerated at Utrecht. But prefixed to it is a Calendar of the entire year, and in it, at February 15, these words are read: "Of Faustina the Virgin. Concerning her as above for Eulalia." On the same day, the manuscript Florarium has: "And of Faustina the Virgin." That she was a Martyr we gather from the fact that the office prescribed for her is the same as for St. Eulalia, Virgin and Martyr. We have not yet found her name elsewhere. It might be questioned whether she was not one of the companions of St. Ursula, with whose relics all the Belgian churches were once enriched.