ON THE HOLY AFRICAN MARTYRS
MARIANUS AND JANUARIUS.
From the Hieronymian Martyrologies.
CommentaryMarianus, Martyr in Africa (S.)
Januarius, Martyr in Africa (S.)
J. B. S.
These two Martyrs are announced in the first place in the text of Florentinius: In Africa, of Marianus and Januarius, to whom in the Corbie is joined Julianus, passed over by all the others. More confused is the Epternach list, beginning thus: In Africa, of Marianus. At Alexandria, of Euticius, Eufemia: and in Africa of Januarius: which here is not so much to be wondered at, since we have shown the following also to be distorted. I had doubted at first whether these two were not repeated from yesterday's class of the four African Martyrs Januarius, Marinus, Nabor, and Felix; but since they are placed in another place, and in another order, and the second name does not agree, I thought they should be left in their own possession; and this the more readily, because in most of the little Hieronymian codices nearly the same names, though sometimes in inverted order, are expressed.