ON THE HOLY MARTYRS OF AQUILEIA,
EMERITUS, HERETUS OR ACRETUS, VICTORIANUS AND VICTOR.
From the apographs of the Hieronymian Martyrology.
CommentaryEmeritus, Martyr at Aquileia (S.)
Heretus, or Acretus, Martyr at Aquileia (S.)
Victorianus, Martyr at Aquileia (S.)
Victor, Martyr at Aquileia (S.)
D. P.
This is another class of Martyrs, having suffered at the city of Aquileia, who are thus set forth in the most ancient apograph of the Epternacens monastery of the Martyrology:
"Likewise at Aquileia of Emeritus, Heretus, Victurianus, Victor." But in three other apographs of the same Hieronymian Martyrology, namely the Corbey, Lucca, and Blumian, they are thus pronounced: "At Aquileia of Emeritus, Acretus, Victorianus, Victor." Which clearly the same are read in the Ms. codex of the Monastery of S. Cyriacus, praised elsewhere by Baronius. In the Ms. codex of the Queen of Sweden, which Holstenius also published, it is so read: "At Aquileia of Emeritus, with three others, already namely indicated." Three only are expressed in the Ms. Barberinianus: "At Aquileia of Emeritus, Heretus, Victurianus." But the memory of SS. Emeritus, Victurianus or Victorianus, and Victor is held in the Mss. Richenoviensis, Augustan of S. Ulrich, Parisian of Labbé, and in Greven in the Auctarium of Usuard. To these is added the name of Eretus in the Ms. Gellonensis and another of S. Gall. In the Ms. Aquisgranensis the second is written Victorinus. But the names of Emeritus and Victorianus are referred in the Florentine Mss. of the Grand Duke and of the Senator Strozzi.