ON S. CORTILIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR, AT ROME.
CommentaryCortilia, Virgin and Martyr at Rome (S.)
Philip Ferrarius in his new Catalogue of Saints writes thus on this day: At Rome, in the church of S. Silvester, of S. Cortilia, Virgin and Martyr. And again (through scribal error?), on the following day: At Rome, of S. Cortilia, Virgin and Martyr. He cites in both places the records of the Church of S. Silvester, where he says her relics are preserved: the rest is unknown to us, he says. Since, however, three churches dedicated to S. Silvester are mentioned by Ottavio Pancirolo -- one of the second region, on the Hills, the twenty-first; another of the same region, the fifty-sixth; the third of the fourth region, the fifth, S. Silvester in the Campus Martius -- in this last, which is also called the Title of S. Silvester, these and very many other relics are extant.