ON THE HOLY AFRICAN MARTYRS DIONYSIUS AND 24 OTHERS.
Commentary.
Dionysius, Martyr in Africa (St.) 24 others, Martyrs in Africa
Author G. H.
These Martyrs are inscribed in the more ancient manuscript Martyrologies, and Dionysius alone, with no place or company of others indicated, is read in the small but ancient manuscript Martyrology of St. Maximin. In the manuscript of Paris belonging to our Philippe Labbe, the memory of Dionysius and 23 others is recorded without a place. In the manuscript of the monastery of St. Cyriacus, of Dionysius and 24 others. Among others, Africa is assigned as the arena of martyrdom. Thus the ancient manuscript Roman Martyrology, or that of St. Jerome, the printed edition of Bede, and the manuscript of Richenberg, and Rabanus: In Africa, of Dionysius and 24 others. Galesinius from a manuscript codex, Canisius in the German Martyrology, and Ferrarius in the New Catalogue: In Africa, of St. Dionysius and 24 other Martyrs. In the manuscript of Reichenau, some things are transposed and altered: In Africa, of Anteginis, Dionysia, and 24 others. Antigonus is the first, and pertains to the Thessalonican Martyrs already treated. But Dionysius, not Dionysia, is read in all other sources. Hermann Greven adds others: thus in the supplement to Usuard: In Africa, of Diunisius, Tacianus, Dionis, Martyrs, and 23 others. The names Dionis and Diunisius are the same as Dionysius. Tacianus is either Titianus among the Thessalonican Martyrs, or Datianus among the Smyrnaeans, of whom we shall now treat.