ON ST. EULOGIUS
OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
Notice from the Little Roman.
Eulogius, at Constantinople (S.)
J. B. S.
To Usuard, or rather to his forefathers, returns another question, a kind of appendix to the foregoing: who ought that Eulogius to be reckoned, whom Usuard thus celebrated in the last place: Likewise at Constantinople, St. Eulogius? Long ago I observed that Eulogius was first named by the author of the Little Roman, and thence passed through Ado into Usuard, with no characteristic mark ascribed, whether of time, or dignity, or martyrdom; so that it is by no means probable that he was taken from the middle of the Hieronymian class, which is unusual for the Little Roman; much less that he was a pontiff, such as Wandelbert painted him for us in the little verse cited there: The pontiffs of the fifth, Anatolius and Eulogius. What companions were joined to him by the Usuardine codices, I have most recently shown; but that only one and single Eulogius was celebrated by the parents of Usuard, is evident from their texts. Do you ask again who he is? I have no wish to guess: that he was a Saint, laid to rest at Constantinople, and venerated from the eighth century, our Little Roman or Rosweyd codex demonstrates; for the rest, it is better to confess ignorance than to confound many things with vain conjectures.