Hortensius

11 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
St. Hortensius, a bishop known only from the Martyrology of St. Jerome and the Irish Martyrology of Dungal. No further information about his life, see, or century has been discovered.

ON ST. HORTENSIUS, BISHOP.

Commentary

Hortensius, Bishop (S.)

The manuscript Martyrology of St. Jerome: "And the deposition of Hortensius the Bishop." The same is celebrated in the manuscript Martyrology of the Irish convent of Dungal. We have read nothing else about him anywhere.

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