Alexander Martyr

ON S. ALEXANDER MARTYR,

BISHOP OF PRUSA IN BITHYNIA.

From the Greek Manuscript Synaxaria.

Alexander Martyr, Bishop of Prusa in Bithynia (S.)

G. H.

Prusa, once a most celebrated city of Bithynia

& Episcopal, near the roots of Mt.

Olympus, brings forth both on this day

IX June & on the following two of her Bishops

Martyrs of Christ, namely Alexander

& Timothy. The latter

is established to have been slain under Julian the Apostate, as on the following day

will be said; but at what time S. Alexander was crowned with martyrdom,

we could not by investigation attain. Illustrious

nevertheless his memory is celebrated in the ancient

Greek Ms. Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople,

once granted for our use by our Fathers of Paris

of the Clermont College, in which these things are read: On the same day, the contest of the holy hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Prusa. On the same day

IX June, the contest of the holy Hieromartyr Alexander,

Bishop of Prusa. The same memorial we find

at Milan in the Ambrosian Library in a book, marked with the letter O

& number 148: likewise at Paris in the Ms. Menaea

of Cardinal Mazarin, & of the Fathers of the Order of S. Dominic

of the Congregation of S. Louis, and also at Dijon

in the College of the Society of Jesus with Peter Francis

Chifflet: in which exemplar is added, that

"he is consummated by the sword," is consummated by the sword: these verses are also added:

A most fitting ornament of priesthood is to thee

The brilliant contest, Alexander, of the sword.

A great ornament of the Priesthood is thine,

The sword finishing the agon, Alexander.