ON ST. HIERUSALEM, MARTYR
From the Calendars of the Greeks.
CommentarySt. Hierusalem, Martyr among the Greeks.
J. P.
That holy woman is known to us from a Greek manuscript Synaxary, which our Elders found in our college of Dijon among the papers of Pierre-François Chifflet; in which she is thus commemorated: Ἡ ἁγία Ἱερουσαλὴμ ξίφει τελ. That is: "St. Hierusalem, slain by the sword." There are added these two verses:
Τομὴν κεφαλῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ φέρει, Καὶ τὸν ἄνω Ἱερουσαλὴμ βλέπει. That is: "Hierusalem endures the cutting of her head, and beholds the Jerusalem above." Which in Latin: "Hierusalem by her severed head reports her martyrdom, and beholds the roofs of the heavenly Jerusalem."
In the manuscript Synaxary of our college of Clermont at Paris, or of Père Sirmond, she is noted on the 26th of July, Appion being joined to her, as Papebroch noted on our praised Chifflet copy. In our manuscript index to the Menaea, however, both are put on this day from the Clermont one. Where, under whom, and when this Martyr suffered, we do not know.