ON BLESSED MEFORIUS, OR MEFORTIUS, CONFESSOR.
CommentaryMeforius, or Mefortius, Confessor (Bl.)
G. H.
An ancient manuscript Martyrology which is preserved in the Carmelite house at Cologne, after recording the feast of St. Matthias the Apostle and the Finding of the Head of St. John the Baptist on the twenty-fourth day of February, adds only this: At Caesarea in Cappadocia, of St. Sergius the Martyr. On that same day, of Blessed Mesorius the Confessor. Of St. Sergius we have treated above. Of Meforius, the manuscript Florarium of the Saints, the Martyrology printed at Cologne in the year 1490, and Hermann Greven in the supplement to Usuard published in 1515 and 1521 also treat, in these same words: On that same day, of Blessed Meforius the Confessor. But Maurolycus, Abbot of Messina, in his Martyrology gives the name thus: On that same day, of Blessed Mefortius the Confessor. The same Mefortius the Confessor was also ascribed to this day by Felicius in his Calendar published at Urbino in 1577. The other particulars concerning the place and times, along with his other Acts, remain unknown to us. The manuscript additions of the Carthusians of Brussels to Hermann Greven have this: On the same day, the Translation of St. Maurtus -- which appears to refer to the same Meforius or Mefortius.