ON ST. MYROPE, MARTYR.
ON THE ISLAND OF CHIOS.
Under Decius.
A notice from the Greek Synaxaria.
Myrope, Martyr, on the Island of Chios (S.)
J. P.
Myrope, who took her name from the ointment—in Greek called μύρον—which, flowing from the bodies of the Saints, she used to draw, to be applied as a medicine to the sick, as is set forth below in her eulogy, is noted in various Synaxaria. Her announcements from various Synaxaria; a eulogy I find her name in the Menaeon of Chifflet, in the excerpts which we keep from the Menaea of the Ambrosian library with a eulogy; in Sirletus and in the Basilian Synaxarium, which recounts her eulogy in this manner:
Ἡ τοῦ Χριστοῦ μάρτυς Μυρώπη ὑπῆρχε μὲν επὶ τῆς βασιλείας Δεκίου ἐκ τῆς νήσου Χίου. Περιήρχετο δὲ τὴν Ἐφεσίων πόλιν, τὰ ἐκ τῶν λειψάνων τῶν ἁγίων Μαρτύρων καὶ Ἀποστόλων προχεόμενα μύρα συνάγουσα, καὶ ἰωμένη τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας. Ὅθεν καὶ φερωνύμως ἐκλήθη Μυρώπη. Καταλαβοῦσα δὲ τὴν νῆσον Χίων, καὶ εὑροῦσα τὸν ἅγιον Ἰσίδωρον, διὰ Χριστὸν μαρτύρησαντα καὶ τελειωθέντα, ἀνείλετο τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔκρυψε παρ᾽ ἑαυτῇ. Καὶ πολλῶν κρατουμένων διὰ τὴν τοῦ λειψάνου ἀφαίρεσιν, καὶ τιμωρουμέννων, ἐφανέρωσεν ἑαυτὴν, λέγουσα λαβεῖν καὶ κρύψαι τὸ λείψανον. Κρατηθεῖσα οὖν παρὰ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος Νουμεριανοῦ, τοῦ καὶ τὸν ἅγιον Ἰσίδωρον βασανίσαντος, ἐτύφθη σφοδρῶς, καὶ ἀπεκλείσθη εἰς φυλακὴν, καὶ δι᾽ ὀπτασιας τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰσιδώρου τῶν ἀποκειμένων αὐτῇ ἀγαθῶν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν λαβοῦσα, τῷ Θεῷ τὸ πνεύμα παρέδωκεν.
[2] Myrope, martyr of Christ, lived under the reign of Decius, from the island of Chios. And she went about Ephesus, a Greco-Latin eulogy. carrying with her the ointments that flowed from the bodies of the Martyrs and Apostles, and healing the sick. From which she received the name of Myrope. After she had returned to the island of Chios, and had found St. Isidore, who had undergone martyrdom for Christ and died, she took up his body, and hid it with herself. And when many were seized and afflicted with tortures on account of the removed body, she made herself known, saying that she had taken away and hidden the body. Being therefore seized by Numerian the prefect, who had also tortured St. Isidore, she was grievously beaten, and shut up in prison, and, being assured by St. Isidore appearing to her concerning the good things that awaited her, she rendered up her spirit to God. The excerpts from the Menaea of the Ambrosian library agree. Sirletus has these things a little differently, relating the matter more briefly: On the same day (the 13th of July) of the holy Martyr Myrope, in the times of the Emperor Decius, who first dwelt on the island of Chios; but afterward, having set out for the city of the Ephesians, she very devoutly drew the ointments flowing from the bodies of the holy Martyrs, from which she received her surname. Afterward, having returned to the island of Chios, and having confessed herself a Christian, she was violently beaten with rods by Numerian the governor, and rendered up her spirit to God.