Tomitan Martyrs

ON THE HOLY TOMITAN MARTYRS

ZENO, MIMIAS, VITALIS, RUFINUS, EVANGELIUS, URISIUS, AND AGNITUS.

From the Hieronymians.

Zeno, Martyr of Tomi (S.)

Mimias, Martyr of Tomi (S.)

Vitalis, Martyr of Tomi (S.)

Rufinus, Martyr of Tomi (S.)

Evangelius, Martyr of Tomi (S.)

Urisius, Martyr of Tomi (S.)

Agnitus, Martyr of Tomi (S.)

J. B. S.

The codices vary in some of the names of these seven Martyrs, and indeed in number the text of Florentinius's Lucca differs, Urisius namely being omitted, who from the most ancient Epternach and the Corbie codices is certainly to be added. Another slip in the aforesaid I observe, that it writes Fenoni for Zenoni or Zenonis, which name, torn from the rest of the companions, passed into the Little Hieronymian. Although the Epternach text is somewhat transposed, the whole class is drawn out from it, with this difference from the others, that it seems to read better Mimiae for Minae; but from the others Urisius is to be preferred to Uris, and Agnitus to Annitus, who in the Blume codex is Agnitis, in the Corbie Agnetis, in which also Rufinae for Rufini. Whether thou read Evangelium or Evangelum, it matters very little. And from these is sufficiently recognized a handful of holy Martyrs, elsewhere unknown. I know not what induced Castellanus, out of these seven Martyrs, to consign only two, Zeno and Mimias, the others being passed over.

ON ST. FELICIAN THE MARTYR

IN SICILY.

From the Hieronymians.

Felician, Martyr, in Sicily (S.)

J. B. S.

Just as St. Mochus the martyr reported above was to the Milanese, so today's St. Felician

was unknown to all Sicilians, subsisting nevertheless by the complete authority of these Martyrologies, in which he is announced with wonderful concord: In Sicily, of Felician, in which manner also the contracted Hieronymians, the Rhinow and Reichenau, express him. In vain will he torment himself who shall wish to investigate more about him elsewhere. Cajetanus in the Sicilian Martyrology received from the Greeks St. Pancratius, of whom we also treat in this table, and whom it sufficed to have reported on the day to which we referred him.