ON SS. RUTILUS OR RUSTULUS, AND TWO COMPANIONS, MARTYRS,
AT SABARIA IN PANNONIA.
From various Martyrologies.
CommentaryRutilus or Rustulus, Martyr at Sabaria in Pannonia (S.)
Two Companions, Martyrs at Sabaria in Pannonia (SS.)
G. H.
These Martyrs conclude the present day in four copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology, where these things are found; Names in the Martyrologies: "In the city of Sabaria, of Rutulus or Rustulus, with two others." Similar things are read in Notker and Greven, and in the Mss. Barberini, of Cologne of S. Mary ad Gradus, in one of Queen Christina of Sweden, and others. In the present Roman Martyrology it is read thus: "In Pannonia, of the holy Martyrs Rutilus and his companions." Of the city of Sabaria in Pannonia we treat below at the Life of S. Quirinus.
[2] Whether the Relics of Rutulus are at Bologna? Some Relics of S. Rutilus the Martyr are kept at Bologna in the Church of the Third Franciscan Order, dedicated to S. Mary of Charity in the street of S. Felix, as Masinus on this day indicates in the "Bologna surveyed." As long as nothing more is said of them, we shall believe them to be of very small moment, nor so specially venerated that they had to be commemorated here; as, taught from other similar cases, we abstain from further inquiry. But whatever it be, that it was brought there mediately or immediately from Pannonia, ought not to be presumed without some proof.