ON SAINTS SENEROTES, ANTIGONUS, RUTILUS, LIBIUS, AND ROGATIANUS, MARTYRS IN PANNONIA.
CommentarySenerotes, Martyr in Pannonia (St.) Antigonus, Martyr in Pannonia (St.) Rutilus, Martyr in Pannonia (St.) Libius, Martyr in Pannonia (St.) Rogatianus, Martyr in Pannonia (St.)
By J. B.
The most ancient Roman Martyrology, or that of St. Jerome, indicates that these Martyrs also completed a glorious contest at Sirmium, like the preceding ones. these Martyrs suffered at Sirmium, or In it the following is read: At Sirmium, of Sinerotis, Antigonus, Rutilus, Libius. The Reichenau manuscript agrees: At Sirmium, of Senerotis. Most others assign them to Pannonia in general, without specifying any particular town or place: elsewhere in Pannonia -- uncertain Bede, Rabanus, Notker, the Martyrology of the Church of Aachen, Hermann Greven, Galesini: In Pannonia, of Senerotes,
Antigonus, Rutilus, Libius. He whom the Reichenau manuscript and those of St. Jerome call Senerotes, others call Senetorus; also the manuscripts of Bede, names variously written while the printed editions read Seronetus, as do Galesini and Ferrari. Antigonius is the reading of Bede and Rabanus, while he is Antigonus in the rest. He who is Rutilus is called Rutulus by Bede, Notker, Galesini, and the Liessies manuscript; Rotulus by Rabanus, Greven, and the Aachen Martyrology. The name Libius and Libi is written interchangeably; Labi is found in Greven. The Liessies Martyrology has only: In Pannonia, of the holy Antigonus, Rutulus, and Libius -- omitting Senerotes. The manuscripts of Marchiennes and Anchin add a fourth, Rogatianus, whom it would have been wrong for us to omit, since those are Martyrologies of very good authority. They read thus: In Pannonia, of Senerotes, Antigonus, Rutulus, Libius, and Rogatianus. Another Rutilus who suffered in Pannonia is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on June 4, but he is different from this one; for the manuscript of St. Jerome reports the latter as having been killed at Sirmium with three companions, and the former at Sabaria with two.