ON SS. PEREGRINUS, LUCIAN, POMPEY, HESYCHIUS, PAPIAS, SATURNINUS, AND GERMANUS, MARTYRS
AT DURAZZO IN MACEDONIA.
UNDER TRAJAN.
An account from the Greek Menaea.
Peregrinus, Martyr at Durazzo in Macedonia (S.)
Lucian, Martyr at Durazzo in Macedonia (S.)
Pompey, Martyr at Durazzo in Macedonia (S.)
Hesychius, Martyr at Durazzo in Macedonia (S.)
Papias, Martyr at Durazzo in Macedonia (S.)
Saturninus, Martyr at Durazzo in Macedonia (S.)
Germanus, Martyr at Durazzo in Macedonia (S.)
J. P.
These Martyrs are known to the Greek Menaea of the Ambrosian library, to the printed Menaea with a small elogium, and to the Basilian Menology, from which I excerpt those things which are there read in their praise: The Martyrs of Christ Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompey, Hesychius, Papias, Saturninus, and Germanus were born of the region of Italy, in the reign of Trajan. But on account of the persecution of the Christians, having boarded a ship, they came to Durazzo; and beholding the most holy Martyr of Christ Astius, anointed with honey and hung upon a tree, and stung by wasps and flies for the confession of Christ, they proclaimed him blessed; and after they were recognized, they were seized by the officers. But being questioned and having confessed Christ, they were delivered to the Governor Agricolaus, and by him thrown into a ship, bound with chains, and cast into the Adriatic sea, and attained a blessed end: whose bodies the sea, casting them forth, hid in the sand. And afterward, being made known to the Archbishop of Alexandria, they were honorably laid away. Observe that the last but one Martyr of the seven is written Σατορνίλος; for which the printed Menaea read Σατορνίνος, but the Ambrosian, rendered into Latin, Saturninus; just as we have expressed it in the title above. The same Martyrs Maximus, bishop of Cythera, and Sirletus have. Whom also from the Greek tables into the Latin the Roman Martyrology reported on this day in these words: At Durazzo in Macedonia, the holy Martyrs Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompey, Hesychius, Papias, Saturninus, and Germanus, who, being Italians by nation, fleeing to that city in the persecution of Trajan, when they saw St. Astius the Bishop hanging there on a cross for the faith of Christ, openly confessed themselves to be Christians, and by the order of the governor were seized, and drowned in the sea.