ON SAINTS MARCIAN AND JOCUNDUS,
MARTYRS IN EGYPT.
From copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology.
CommentaryMarcian, Martyr in Egypt (S.)
Jocundus, Martyr in Egypt (S.)
G. H.
The four copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology open this eighth day of June with these words: VI Ides of June in Egypt of Marcian. In the Corbie copy, published at Paris with the fourth volume of the Specilegium by Luc d'Achery, is added the companion Jocundus, as also in the ancient Martyrology of the same monastery of Corbie: wherefore we also did not wish to separate the same. Notker also so begins the same day: In Egypt the birth of S. Martian, whom very many MSS. refer to, and with them Greven in his Additions to Usuard. On the fifth day are celebrated as Martyrs in Egypt Marcian, Nicander, and Apollonius, also inscribed in the said copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology: from whom because this one perhaps was different, with this premonition we have determined to set him forth on this day; especially because the companion Jocundus is added, different from the companions previously named.