ON SAINT NERSUS,
MARTYR AMONG THE GREEKS.
From the Great Menaea.
CommentaryNersus, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)
G. H.
This day XV June is celebrated among the Greeks in the printed Menaea & in Maximus Bishop of Cythera in the Lives of the Saints the memory of the holy Martyr Nerse. Nor more about him were we able to know. There is indeed memory of the Saints Nersa & companions, who suffered in Persia, on XX November in the Roman Martyrology; but that memory was taken from the monuments of the Greeks; among whom in the Ms. Synaxarion of the Constantinopolitan Church thus begins the elogium: Contest of the holy Narsa the Bishop & Joseph his disciple: & afterwards again Νηρσᾶς is called. And in the same way in the printed Menaea on the said XX November, Νηρσᾶς is written, that he may seem to be determined different from this holy Martyr, in Greek Νερσῆ written. The rest we propose for further inquiry to the learned to be examined.