ON ST. CLEMENT, MARTYR.
CommentaryClement, Martyr (St.)
G. H.
Many Saints celebrated under the name of Clement are recorded; from all of them this one appears to be different, whose memory is thus recorded on February 23 in the Menaea of the Greeks:
"On the same day the holy Martyr Clement is perfected by the sword. Clement, the branch of the spiritual vine, pours forth a new must of blood when struck down."
Maximus of Cythera also treats of the same, but he says that the one whom he makes a Martyr died in peace -- in Greek "en eirene," where "xiphei" ("by the sword") should be read. No place is added. We conjecture that he was crowned in Greece or some Eastern province. A certain Clement is recorded in the manuscript Martyrologies of St. Jerome and of Reichenau at November 21, but as having suffered at Rome; to him Celsus is added in the Roman Martyrology, and it is said in the Notes that the aforesaid ancient manuscripts of the monastery of St. Cyriacus in the City treat of them. But in our copy received from Rome, those names are absent.