ON THE HOLY MARTYRS,
EMERITA, SEPTIMINUS, SATURNINUS, AMASIUS, ORASUS, LUCIANUS. LIKEWISE SERVULUS AND ERASMUS.
From the often-mentioned Martyrology.
CommentaryEmerita, Martyr (S.) Septinius, Martyr (S.) Saturninus, Martyr (S.) Amasius, Martyr (S.) Orasus, Martyr (S.) Luccanus, Martyr (S.) Servulus, Martyr (S.) Erasmus, Martyr (S.)
G. H.
We proceed with the ancient apographs of the Hieronymian Martyrology, in which these things are read: Emerita, Septiminus, Saturninus, Amasius, Orasus, Lucianus; for which by varying reading are also written the names Æmerita, and Saturnina. The name of Lucianus we add from the Lucan apograph, which is also found in the Florarium Ms., but is added Antiochenus, because to the author no other was known. We judge with the preceding class, of Silvanus and his companions, that they suffered at Rome: yet we do not wish to assert this. Above among the Roman Martyrs Emeritus is named, just as now Emerita: nor do we judge it indicated that Augusta Emerita, a city of Lusitania, was the palæstra of other Martyrs. But SS. Servulus and Erasmus Martyrs are indicated in the Ms. of Cologne preserved among the Carmelites, and in the Florarium Ms., and also in the Martyrology of Cologne and Lübeck printed in the year 1490; and finally in the Additions of Grevenus to Usuard, although they had earlier dealt with another.