ON SAINT ZACHARIAS,
MARTYR AT NICOMEDIA.
Notice from ancient Martyrologies.
Zacharias, Martyr at Nicomedia (S.)
G. H.
We proceed with the ancient apographs of the Hieronymian Martyrology, in which these things are read: At Nicomedia the birthday of S. Zacharias, and indeed a Martyr, as is added in the Corbie apograph. In the Blumian is written the name of Macharias, as in the Liege Ms. of S. Lambert. But Zacharias is retained in the older other Mss. of Richenovia, Cassino, Altempsianum, Barberini, and another which Holstenius published of the Queen of Sweden; likewise in Rabanus, Usuardus, Notker and other later ones, with today's Roman Martyrology: from which we are secure concerning the ancient veneration. Would that the Acts of martyrdom also were extant!