ON ST. MOCHUS THE MARTYR
AT MILAN.
From the Hieronymians.
CommentaryMochus, Martyr, at Milan (S.)
J. B. S.
Concerning some Mochus, a martyr in Africa, our Predecessors treated on the 7th of June, concerning two Mocii on the 22nd of April and the 11th of May: today's St. Mochus is scarcely known anywhere except in the Hieronymians, both the larger and the contracted, his name being deformed here and there. In the most ancient Epternach he is called Mecus, transposed into the middle of the series of the Tomitans. The Rhinow and Reichenau write Mocci, the Little Corbie, as it was most recently published in the third volume of the Analecta, Mocchi: more basely the Marbach in the same place, Moclii, our Augsburg Inochi. But in the greater Corbie and the Lucca codices Mochus is expressly given; nor can there be doubt about the position or arena, since the codices everywhere note at Milan (in Mediolano), a few in Mediolanio. From some corrupt exemplar Notker took his: At Milan, the nativity of St. Mochimus; nor did Canisius more happily correct it, when he substituted Monae: it seems certain enough that Mochi is to be read. But if the notice of the Hieronymian codices had reached Galesinius and other Milanese writers, they would not have neglected to augment their tables with such a Saint; with his name alone, however, for concerning his Acts and deeds there is deep silence everywhere. It pleased Castellanus to report Mochus on this day without position or place of arena; why he did so, in that consensus of the codices, I do not at all see; he could have taken the whole matter from Florentinius.