ON THE HOLY MARTYRS INNA, PINNA, AND RIMMA,
(a) from the Menaea of the Greeks.
Innas, Martyr (St.) Pinnas, Martyr (St.) Rimmas, Martyr (St.)
May warmth receive these athletes of the cold, Inna, Pinna, Rimma -- made of crystal.
(c) These men were in a certain northern province, apprehended by barbarian idol-worshippers and brought before the Governor, who ordered those who confessed Christ to perish by cold. Accordingly, they were bound to straight and rigid poles fixed in the middle of a river which, at that wintry season, was extremely cold, and its surface frozen solid with slippery ice, The Saints perished from cold. differing in nothing from immovable objects. There they reached the end of their lives, committing their blessed souls into the hands of God.
Annotations(a) Nowhere else have we read these names of Saints. If they do not end in -as, as the Menaea have them -- which would be a Greek termination -- but in -a, they are akin to those personal names commonly used by the Frisians in our Lower Germany, which almost all end in the vowel -a. Among them, the name Hinna is also in use, and a certain Saint Hinna, unknown to us.
(b) Who wrestled with cold. In Greek:
Thalpsis dechestho tous athletas tou kryous.
(c) Maximus Cythyraeus records the same account.
(d) A Roman governor? Or a barbarian, whether governor or king, insofar as barbarians reign? As Tacitus writes in a similar case regarding Verritus and Malorix, leaders of the Frisians, in Annals book 13. The Greek is: "to the ruler who governed the region."