Roman Martyrs

ON THE HOLY ROMAN MARTYRS.

FELICULA, FELICITAS, FAPPA, GREGORIUS, GAGUS, RUTIANUS, SATURNINUS, ROGATA, HILARIUS, VICTURUS, MUSTILUS, INGENUUS, SECUNDUS, MAURUS, URBICUS, SECUNDIANUS, CASTULA, CANDIDA, PRIMA, FELICIANUS, FORTUNATUS, MARTIALIS, JULIANA, NICANDER, SACRINUS.

LIKEWISE FELICITAS, TRANSLATED TO ANTWERP.

From ancient Martyrologies and the Reliquary-record of the Professed House of the Society of Jesus at Antwerp.

Felicula, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Felicitas, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Fappa, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Gregorius, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Gagus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Rutianus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Saturninus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Rogata, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Hilarius, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Victurus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Mustilus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Ingenuus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Secundus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Maurus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Urbicus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Secundianus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Castula, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Candida, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Prima, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Felicianus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Fortunatus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Martialis, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Juliana, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Nicander, Martyr at Rome (S.)

Sacrinus, Martyr at Rome (S.)

BY THE AUTHOR G. H.

We proceed with the ancient copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology; and first of all we note what is said concerning the aforementioned Saints. Of these, in the Martyrology of the Queen of Sweden, published by Lucas Holstenius in his Animadversions on the Roman Martyrology, these things are read: On the Nones of June. At Rome, on the Ardeatine Way at the 7th milestone, the natal day of SS. Felicitas, Gregorius, Saturninus, and twenty-two others. Martyrs who suffered at Rome. Just so many we have expressed in the title by their names. Of these, in the manuscripts of Reichenau and Rheinau three are indicated, in these words: At Rome, of Felicula, Felicitas, Gregorius. In the manuscripts of Gellone, Augsburg, S. Gall, and Paris are reported the names of Felicitas, Gregorius, Gagus, Hilarius, Candida; but for the last there are also read the names of Helarus or Clarus and Candidus. Notker has these things: At Rome at the seventh milestone, of Felicula and Felicitas, with many others. The same things are reported in the Appendix of Ado, in the manuscript Florarium, and in others.

[2] reported in the ancient Calendars In the Hieronymian copies all are thus reported: At Rome at the seventh milestone, of Felicula (who is also written Filocala), Felicitas, Fappa (or Jappa or Pappia), Gregorius (also Gregoria), Gagus or Gaius, Rulianus or Rustianus, Saturninus, Rogata, Hilarius or Helarius, Victurus, Mustulus, Ingenuus, Secundus, Maurus, Urbicus or Orbicus, Secundianus, Castula, Candida, Prima or Primus, Felicianus, Fortunatus (in others Feliciana and Saturnina), Martialis, Nicander, Sacrinus or Sacer.

[3] The first two, foremost of the rest and of the more numerous male-sex Martyrs, veneration and Relics of S. Felicitas at Antwerp. seem to have been illustrious matrons: to one of whom, namely S. Felicitas the Martyr, our forefathers of this Professed House of Antwerp looked, when they chose this fifth day of June for the veneration of S. Felicitas Virgin and Martyr, whose Relics, drawn forth from the cemetery of S. Priscilla on the Salarian Way, with the faculty of our most holy Lord Paul V, and to be placed in some Church of the Society, Mutius Vitelleschi, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, obtained; and he gave them to Jacobus Tirinus, Superior of the said House. We have the letters of donation, given at Rome on the 15th of March in the year 1616, and signed by the proper hand of the said Mutius Vitelleschi and with a seal of red wax appended. Afterwards, at the request of Joannes de Tollenare, Superior of the same House, Joannes Malderus, Bishop of Antwerp, approved these and other Relics of various Saints, by a diploma made on the 30th day of October in the year 1625, which was signed "Joannes, Bishop of Antwerp," and sealed with a seal of red wax. The marble church of the same Professed House had been consecrated, with five altars, on the 12th day of September in the year 1621, of which that one which closes the left side of the upper portico is dedicated to the name and memory of the Saints Maximus and Felicitas, etc. Of S. Maximus the Martyr, whose body is in the same place, we treated on the 14th day of April, page 221, no. 14.