Saint Pothinus or Photinus, Bishop, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Zacharias, Priest, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Vetius Epagatus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Macarius, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Aschlibiades, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Silvius, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Primus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Ulpius, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Vitalis, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Comminus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. October, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Philomenus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Geminus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Julia, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Albina, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Grata, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Æmilia, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Potamia, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Pompeja, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Rodana, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Biblis, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Quartia, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Materna, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Helpis, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Maturus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Sanctus, Deacon, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Attalus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Alexander, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Ponticus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Blandina, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Justus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Aristeus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Cornelius, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Zosimus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Titus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Julius, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Zoticus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Apollonius, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Geminianus, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Julia the second, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Ausona, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Æmilia the second, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Jamnica, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Pompeja the second, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Domna, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Justa, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Trophima, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Antonia, Martyr at Lyons in Gaul. St. Vincentius, Martyr in the same place. St. Nina, Martyr in the same place. St. Priscus, Martyr in the same place. St. Sepaca, Martyr in the same place. St. Hilarius, Martyr in the same place. St. Felix, Martyr in the same place. St. Castula, Martyr in the same place. St. Epagatus, Martyr in the same place. St. Amelia, Martyr in the same place. St. Donatus, Martyr in the same place. St. Barbarinus, Priest, Martyr. St. Humatus, Martyr. St. Evasius, Martyr. St. Honorata, Martyr. St. Rogata, Martyr. The thirty-eight holy Martyrs, among the Greeks. The holy Mother and her three children, Martyrs among the Greeks. The very many holy Martyrs of Antioch. St. Theemeda, Martyr in Egypt. Her sons, Martyrs in Egypt. St. Armenius, Martyr in Egypt. The Mother, Martyr in Egypt. St. Marcellinus, Priest, Martyr at Rome. St. Peter the Exorcist, Martyr at Rome. St. Thomatus, Martyr at Rome. St. Rogatus, Martyr at Rome. The forty-two holy Martyrs at Rome. St. Secundus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maxima, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Martinianus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Silvinus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Flavianus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Paulus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Peter, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Victorina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Matrona, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fausta, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Extricata, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Antonina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturnina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Donata, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Reducta, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maxima, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturnina the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Paula, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Julia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Florentina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fortunata, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maxima the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Urbana, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Felicissima, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Justa, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Flavia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Matrona the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Marciosa, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Valentina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fortunata the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Venusta, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Donata the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maria, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Gallica, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Tertula, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Vitalica, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Evantia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Julia the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Summata, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Posinna, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturnina the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Concordia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Donata the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Felix, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Valentinus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Januarius, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Mastilla, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Lucius, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maria the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Marcella, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Percus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Datula, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Victuria, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Jovianus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maxima the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Felix the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Tertula, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Castulina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Tulla, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Gaudolus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Medianus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Justus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturus the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Felix the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Dontula, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Samina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Januaria, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fortunatus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturnina the fourth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Julia the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Nina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Honorata, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Donata the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Victoria, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Marcia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Donata the fourth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Calpurnia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Extricata, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Felix the fourth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturninus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Donatus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Cenonus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Primosa, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Secunda, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Januaria the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Rogatus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Faustus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fonteius, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Tertulus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Paula the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Rogatus the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Secunda the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Januaria the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Martialis, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Felix the fifth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Sextus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fortunatus the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Januarius the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Adjutor, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fortunata the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Nomitia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Paula the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Rogata, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Victoria the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Donata the fifth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Mavorus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Posinna the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Prima, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Urbana the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Turninus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Januarius the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Senecio, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Julia the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Marciana, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Nondinarus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Castus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Datus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Florentina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Victoria the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Piscina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Castulus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturninus the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Victurianus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fortunatus the fourth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Nina the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Nundinus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturnina the fifth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Cæcilia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Marina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Luciosa, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Felicia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maxima the fourth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Prima the second, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Firmina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Evasius, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Sildinus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Tertius, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Fuscus, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Marcellina, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Rota, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Evasia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Sermatia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Rodilia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Maria the third, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Salpurnia, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Castula, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Saturnina the sixth, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Justa, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Jocunda, Martyr who suffered at Rome. St. Julius, Martyr who suffered at Rome. Another seventy-six, Martyrs who suffered at Rome. St. Marius, Martyr in the same place. St. Jovinianus, Martyr in the same place. St. Fortunatus, Martyr in the same place. St. Oratus, Martyr in the same place. St. Latina, Martyr in the same place. St. Sabina, Martyr in the same place. The forty-eight holy Martyrs at Rome. St. Thamatus, Martyr at Caesarea. St. Honoratus, Martyr at Caesarea. St. Seleucus, Martyr at Caesarea. St. Porfirus, Martyr at Caesarea. St. Pafilus, Martyr at Caesarea. St. Estiaus or Palæstinus, Martyr at Caesarea. St. Rogata, Martyr at Caesarea. St. Erasmus, Bishop, Martyr at Formiae in Campania. St. Eugenius I, Roman Pope. St. Adalgisus, Priest in Theorascia, a little district of Picardy. St. Guido, Bishop of Acqui in Insubria. St. Stephen, Bishop, Martyr at Norale among the Helsingi in Sweden. St. Nicholas the Pilgrim, at Trani in Apulia. Bl. John, Hermit on the Urticensian mountain of Spain. St. John the Great-Martyr at Bialograd in Bessarabia. The Holy Martyrs, at Sandomierz in Poland, slaughtered by the Tartars.
The work of R. P. Godefridus Henschenius of pious memory, unless the letters added in the margin indicate otherwise.
SS. Hermylus and Stratonicus, Martyrs, are commemorated in a very old Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople, as on the day before among other Greeks. We have illustrated the Acts of their martyrdom on 13 January.
Ceolachus, Cellacus, Colatus, or Colachus, Bishop of Lindisfarne and of Lichfield, Apostle of the Mercians, is commemorated as a Saint by Camerarius in the Menology of the Scots, and in a certain manuscript Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict. The Venerable Bede, book 3 of the History of the English, chapter 21, among the Bishops of the Middle Angles and of the Mercians names Ceollach, of the nation of the Scots, who, having left his Bishopric, returned to the island of Hy. We treated of him among the Passed Over (to which nothing occurs for us to add) on 14 February.
St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, is venerated by the Greeks with solemn veneration, and following their example he is commemorated by Molanus, Ferrarius, and others. We have illustrated his Acts together with the Latins on 13 March.
The Return of St. Walaricus, Abbot, from Flanders to his own place, is inscribed in the manuscript of Centula. We gave the history of the return with his Acts on 1 April.
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The Deposition of St. Marcellinus, Bishop, is indicated in the very ancient Echternach Martyrology of St. Jerome, after very many Roman Martyrs have been recorded, so that St. Marcellinus the Pope or Bishop seems to be indicated, especially since mention of him is nowhere found in the said apograph, which records all the older Bishops of the Roman Church. If this is admitted, what I said of his end and of the beginning of the following Pontificate in the Chronico-historical Essay on the series of the Roman Pontiffs will have to be changed. In the manuscripts of St. Peter's at the Vatican, of St. Victor at Paris, and in another of the Queen of Sweden, Saturninus is joined to him, and was perhaps laid to rest with him. Saturninus is on this day among the Roman Martyrs, so that he seems easily to have been able to be joined to these. In the manuscript of Trier is read: At Rome, of St. Marcellus, Martyr, with 400 others; and in the apograph of Lucca he is called Marcellus, Bishop; and the Companions there are recorded, if not in so great a number, at least more than three hundred. In the Blumian manuscript is written the name of St. Marcellinus, Priest. But Marcellinus the Pope is venerated on 26 April.
St. Romanus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia, is recorded by Rabanus on this day, and by several on the fifth day of June. But his birthday is 14 May.
Damian, Companion of St. Regulus, is indicated by Camerarius in the Scottish Menology. We treated of him among the Passed Over on 1 June.
Pyrrhus, Bishop, is recorded in the Synaxarion of Clermont, with our holy Fathers Gerasimus and Erasmus; of these we know nothing further; of him we treated on 1 June.
St. Acacius, Martyr, is placed in the manuscript Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople, with no place or time or persecution added, so that it is difficult to judge of him, since several Martyrs named Acacius occur in this work.
Dorotheus, who beheaded SS. Marcellinus and Peter, having seen their souls being borne to the heavens, doing penance and baptized, rested in peace under Pope Julius; as is related below in the Acts of their martyrdom, numbers 11 and 14. He is treated separately as a Saint in the Martyrology of Cologne and Lübeck published in the year 1490, and in Greven and Canisius. Everything is related there: but because neither Ferrarius nor other Romans treat of him separately, nor have we found his name inscribed in any ancient Martyrologies, let it suffice to have indicated this.
The remains of Bl. Marcellinus, Roman Martyr, granted by Pope Urban VIII, are honourably venerated in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity of the Discalced, at the town of Socuéllamos in Spain. So Tamayo de Salazar in the Spanish Martyrology; adding that he has placed the memory on this day, because the ancient and more recent Martyrologies treat today of another of the same name, in which there is deep silence about this one. And we treat below of the Relics of St. Marcellinus the Priest and Peter the Exorcist, preserved in various places: from whom we judge this one plainly different.
D. P.
SS. Nicholas and Tranus, Hermits in Sardinia, are recorded on this day by Ferrarius in the Catalogue of the Saints of Italy, on the occasion of St. Nicholas of Trani. Their bodies are said to have been religiously elevated in the year 1227, and their Life and miracles to be described in an old book published by Ludovico, Bishop of Civita; which book, as also the book of Francesco Fara on the affairs of Sardinia, we should wish to obtain, especially if the aforesaid Saints have some fixed day of cult or elevation, as Dimas Serpi and Dionisio Bonfant seem to indicate. But if the fixed day of that feast, on which Indulgences too are offered, worthy of mention by us, has been indicated, whether their own or common with the Mother of God, Patroness of the place, we shall try to treat of them more fully at it.
D. P.
Anastasia of Olivet, namely a Nun, inscribed by Philippus a Visitatione in the Acies bene ordinata of the Saints and Blessed of the Carmelite Order: I do not know whence it became known to him that she was a Saint, or that she died on this day; Lezana says neither in the Annals, treating of her as having professed his Order, at the year 521. Certainly the last memorial of her, which exists in the Life of St. Sabas, treats of her only as one still flourishing in virtues on the Mount of Olives at the time when that was being written, but nowhere as already dead.
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The translation of SS. Deodatus, Bishop, Maldegarius, Fulbert, Amsilio, Lambert, and one of the Innocents, in the monastery of Lagny, is inscribed in the Additions of Molanus to Usuard of the year 1583, towards the end, in smaller type: and with him cited they are recorded in the monastic Martyrology of Arnold Wion, who adds that three of them were monks, namely Maldegarius, Amsilo, and Lambert. Dorganius follows Wion. But Menard, a monk of the same Benedictine Order as the monks of Lagny, writing at Paris and only six leagues distant from Lagny, wraps the whole matter in silence, as Bucelinus also does. Saussay, in smaller type, as if among the Passed Over, makes mention of the same, who nevertheless could himself also have examined the matter at Paris: we nevertheless asked our Father Hardouin that he too would explore it; who, using the help of Father Mabillon, received the answer that the Relics had indeed been burnt by the Calvinists together with the charters which would have taught whence and when or how they had been brought; but that the feasts of each are nevertheless kept as follows:
Of St. Fuilbert, Bishop, namely of Chartres, which is worth noting, because he was recorded by us among the Passed Over for lack of cult, on 10 April.
Of St. Deodatus, Bishop, perhaps of Nevers: but this one is venerated on the 19th, that one on 22 June.
Of St. Lambert, Bishop and Martyr, Patron of the people of Liège, on 17 September.
Of St. Ansilio, Monk, hitherto unknown to us from elsewhere, on 11 October.
Of the Holy Innocents, with the rite of the first Class, on 28 December.
No proper feast of St. Madelgarius is indicated in the answer, nor do we find cause to suspect that he is the one who is venerated at Mons in Hainaut on 14 July.
Odo, from Prior of the monastery of the Holy Saviour at Canterbury made Abbot of Battle in England, and known for his writings on the Pentateuch, the books of Kings, and the Psalter, is indicated by Menard, Maihew, and Bucelinus: and he is said to have been of such excellent piety that after his death he was reckoned among the Saints. Which the heretic Bale first said, as far as we know, but in mockery. Pits, Harpsfield, Menard, and Bucelinus, however, followed. He is not in the English Martyrology of Wilson: wherefore we too defer him, until we have obtained more certain records of his cult.
Blessed Dubdaletheus, son of Kellach, Comorban (that is, successor) of SS. Patrick and Columba, rested in peace on the 2nd day of June, in the eightieth year of his age. So Colgan, part 3, at the Acts of St. Patrick, from a short Chronicle, page 297; and he adds that, according to the Four Masters, he succeeded Muredach, deposed in the year 965, and sat as Archbishop of Armagh for 33 years; accordingly he would have died in the year 998.
Ratruda, Virgin, in the monastery of Plumbariola near Monte Cassino, is brought forward with the title of Saint by Bucelinus; but by no one before him, as far as we know: and by him are cited Leo of Ostia and Marcantonio Scipione, without the places being indicated. We therefore searched for them and found that Leo, book 1 of the Chronicle of Cassino, chapter 8, treats of her as the daughter of Ratchis, King of the Lombards, who became a monk; who, with her mother Tasia, living in that place, built and endowed at their own expense, under great watchfulness and regular strictness, closed her last day. But neither Leo himself, nor Angelo de Nuce in the Notes, gives her the title of Saint, as neither does Marcantonio Scipione in the Eulogies of the Abbots of Cassino, where, under St. Petronax the Abbot (of whom we treated on 6 May), he makes mention of Ratruda; nor finally Mabillon in the 3rd Benedictine Century. The day, indeed, Bucelinus seems to have chosen at his own discretion.
Conall, Bishop, disciple of St. Columba, in the monastery of Divine Law, is commemorated in the Scottish Menology of Dempster, and in his Ecclesiastical History, page 167, where he calls the monastery "of the Divine Countryside," and asserts that he flourished in the year 609. Ferrarius copies Dempster, and cites Hector Boece, but with the place omitted. We should gladly have more certain records of his veneration.
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Zacharias the Monk, disciple of the Abbot Silvanus, who, trampling his cloak under foot, said: Unless one has thus trampled all things in his mind, he cannot be a monk; he is praised in the Lives of the Fathers and is recorded by Greven in the Auctarium of Usuard, who alleges Heraclides of Pontus; but he in his Paradise makes no mention of such a saying, nor any other that we know of. The same is nevertheless related by Canisius; while Galesinius and Ferrarius are content to have commended his sanctity in general. There is a certain St. Zacharias, a recluse, who rested in peace, recorded by us from the Greeks at 24 March; but neither then could we, nor can we now, affirm whether one and the same is recorded here.
Thomas of Argenteuil, Provost of the Church of Arras, killed by assassins in the very bosom of his Church for the sake of justice and the liberty of the Church in the year 1026, is commemorated by Molanus in the Birthdays of the Saints of Belgium, from the book of obits of the said Church. Perhaps two Cs fell out for Molanus. For in the Martyrology of Arras, given to us by the Lord Canons, it is read thus: On the same day the killing of Thomas, Provost, for whom fifty shillings are given, in the year 1226. His memory, but in different type, is printed in the Martyrology printed in French at Liège in the year 1624, and he is joined to the Pious by Saussay.
John, admitted into the monastery of Villers in Brabant of the Cistercian Order, while still passing his year of probation, who died after a most innocent life, is brought forward with the title of Blessed by Henriquez, Chalemot, and Bucelinus. He is praised in the Chronicle of Villers.
Adelheid lived with fifty Virgins in the Imperial town of Isny in Swabia, and is much praised by Johannes Nider, book 1 of the Formicarius, chapter II, and book 2, chapter II, without the day of her death being indicated: which Arturus a Monasterio assigns as this 2nd of June, and he first honours her with the title of Blessed.
The deposition of Ulrich, Count of Zell, afterwards a monk of Zwiefalten, as of a venerable man, is commemorated by Bucelinus in the Benedictine Menology.
Arnold of Geertruidenberg, Carthusian, of Chapelle, a village of Hainaut near Enghien, who died with the repute of sanctity, is recorded after Dorlandus by Raissius; but he calls him only Venerable.
Luis de Estrada, Abbot of the monastery of Huerta of Bl. Mary in the Spanish diocese of Sigüenza, of the Cistercian Order, and General of the whole Congregation of Upper Castile, who died on this day in the year 1581, formerly a champion of the Society of Jesus, is inscribed in the Menology of Henriquez, of Chalemot, and of Bucelinus; but only with the title of blessed remembrance, or of pious memory, or of venerable.
Leonard of Assisi, companion of St. Francis, is recorded by Jacobilli, because he had no other for this day. He alleges the words of the Franciscan Martyrology, in which he is had in the first place at the preceding day, as we then said among the Passed Over.
Jacob Coppens, killed by heretics at Alkmaar in the year 1575, is indicated as a Martyr, after Opmeer, by Raissius.
John Bernard, killed by the Indians in the year 1599; 1 John of Lüneburg, in Saxony, in the year 1240; 2 John of Rupescissa, at Villefranche, in the year 1357; 4 Rubinus Mirtilli, in Portugal, in the year 1447; 7 Alfonso de Tapia, in Spain, in the year 1598; 3 William of Castiglione, in Italy, in the year 1415; 5 Gaspar a Josepho, in Spain, in the year 1576; 6 John the Lay Brother, at Salamanca, in the year 1577; Paola Isabella, Virgin at Milan, in the year 1447; of the Order of St. Francis, are commemorated as Blessed in the Franciscan Martyrology of Arturus, and Paola Isabella in his Sacred Gynaeceum. Various of these are praised for sanctity of life in Wadding and Harold; but of any cult, at least begun, they are silent: nor do they honour any of them with the title of Blessed.
Juana de Guilhem, of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, who died at Orihuela in the kingdom of Valencia in the year 1607, famous for miracles, was translated to the altar in the year 1616. Her Life, carried through 30 pages, exists in Simplicianus a S. Martino, in the History of St. Augustine and of the other Saints, Blessed, and Illustrious men of the Order: but in this Life the author abstains from the title of Blessed, which, however, Arturus a Monasterio gives her in the Sacred Gynaeceum.
Isaac, Monk and Martyr at Córdoba, is commemorated in the manuscripts of Prague and Utrecht. In others, with the Roman Martyrology, on 3 June.
SS. Pergentinus and Laurentinus, brothers, put to the sword in Tuscany under Decius, are recorded in the manuscript of St. Martin at Trier. By others on 3 June.
St. Genesius, Bishop and Martyr, at Limoges in Gaul, is indicated by Ferrarius from the Calendar of the Church of Limoges; but he adds that he has not yet been able to learn of what city he was Bishop, or when he became a Martyr. We have the Breviary of Limoges of the year 1625, in whose Calendar no mention is made anywhere of any Genesius. Yet that there are two parishes of St. Genesius in the Archpriestship of Brive is indicated in the Register of benefices of the diocese of Limoges. Perhaps it is St. Genesius, Bishop of Clermont, but a Confessor: who is venerated on the following day, 3 June.
St. Lifardus, Bishop, Confessor, is indicated in the written additions of the Charterhouse of Brussels to Greven. There is Lifardus, Bishop, Martyr, on 4 February; or Lifardus, Priest, Confessor, on the following day, 3 June.
St. Attalus is in the manuscript Synaxarion of the Church. He seems to be the one who is recorded by others on 6 June.
St. Arthemius with his companions is indicated by Greven in the Auctarium of Usuard. We think he is the same whom others, with us, defer to 6 June.
SS. Vincent, Primus, and Felician, Martyrs at Agen, are celebrated in the Gallican Martyrology of Saussay. But Primus and Felician suffered at Rome, and Vincent at Agen; wrongly joined here: whom, with due distinction, we shall record on 9 June.
St. Odo, a Dane by origin, from Bishop of Winchester made Archbishop of Canterbury, is inscribed on this 4th day before the Nones of June in the Martyrology published by Richard Whitford and printed in English at London in the year 1506. But on the 4th day before the Nones of July he is said, in the Life published by Capgrave, to have left the world and entered the heavenly realms, and others agree. We shall therefore give his various Acts on 4 July.
The Canonization of St. Procopius, Abbot in Bohemia, made on this day, is recalled by Wion, Menard, Ferrarius, and others. His birthday is 4 July.
St. Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, is inscribed in the manuscript of St. Lawrence at Liège, and in the manuscript Florarium. His birthday is 4 July.
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Malcolm, King of Scotland, husband of St. Margaret, killed by the English in the year 1097, has been inscribed as a Holy Martyr by Wilson in the English Martyrology of the year 1608; and Camerarius and Ferrarius have followed him. Molanus in the Appendix to Usuard is alleged: but he in the first edition has him at the day of 15 October, and Canisius in the German Martyrology, Ferrarius in the General Catalogue, and Dempster in the Scottish Menology followed: who also records him on various other days, but not on this second. But because everything concerning him is almost entirely contained in the Life of his wife St. Margaret the Queen, we have decided (unless some other more certain reason is indicated) to treat the cause of both together, not at 8 July, on which Margaret used to be venerated, but at the day which has now been appointed for the sacred rite of her cult, 10 June.
Arturus a Monasterio, in the Sacred Gynaeceum, asserts that the memory of St. Helena, Mother of the Emperor Constantine, is celebrated at Venice, in the Greek Anthologion, in the Additions of Molanus to Usuard, and in the General Catalogue of Ferrarius. But these record her not on 2 June but on 2 May, with St. Constantine her son: and we shall treat of her, with the Roman Martyrology, on 18 August.
Bl. Isidore, Confessor, appointed by St. Neophytus the Bishop as Steward of the Church of the Holy Brothers, is said by the author of the Glory of the Leontines, first published in the year 1685, namely Carlo Antonio Conversano, to be praised in the Life of St. Neophytus the Bishop in Gaetani. Of these we treated on 10 May, and we shall examine the Life of St. Neophytus on 1 September.
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Caprasius, Prior of Carmel, to whom John of Jerusalem is supposed to have inscribed the book on the Institution of Monks; hitherto ascribed to no Calendars of the Carmelites (that I have seen); is placed with the title of Saint in the Little Crown of flowers selected from Carmel, published in German for the use of the monthly drawing of lots, in the year 1685 at Antwerp. Others, confusing him with Caprasius of Lérins, assign him to 1 July,
although Bostius and Palaeonydorus say that he died on 15 or 20 October.
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St. Florus, Bishop, Confessor, is venerated with an Office of nine Lessons in the propers of the Church of Clermont, and in the Ordo printed for the year 1656. We treated of him on the day before, that is the Kalends of June, among the Passed Over; because he was transferred here from that day on account of the feast of St. Modulphus. But in the Cathedral Church of Saint-Flour, as also in various Fasti, he is venerated on 3 and 4 November.
St. Ermenburga, an Englishwoman, is indicated in the additions of the Charterhouse of Brussels to Greven: by others she is recorded on 19 November.
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Udalric the Anchorite, companion of Bl. Nicholas in Switzerland, has a Life in Murer among the Swiss Saints: and because he was born in Bavaria, he already had one before in Rader in Bavaria Sancta. The Life of Nicholas, his ancient cult having been proved in some fashion, we gave on 22 March, where at number 68 this companion of his is treated: but neither there, nor by the Authors alleged above, is any argument of public cult brought forward for Udalric.
Stanislaus of Poznań, a Carmelite, a most fervent Preacher, stabbed through by Idolaters in Prussia and buried today in the year 1420 among his own at Bydgoszcz in Kujawy, is recorded, from the Catalogue of the Patrons of Poland approved at Rome and revised at Kraków, among the Lives of the Polish Blessed collected by Marcin Baroniusz, whose words we have here almost given; nor, on inquiring, have we found anything about cult: see, if you please, Lezana in the Annals, alleging other Authors of the Order, at the aforesaid year.
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