ON THE FORTY HOLY ROMAN MARTYRS
From the same Dijon Synaxary.
CommentaryThe Forty Roman Martyrs (SS.)
D. P.
In the same Dijon Menaea, they are thus reported on this same 16th day of June: "Τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ, οἱ ἅγιοι ν΄ Ρωμαῖοι, πυρὶ τελειοῦνται." The Holy forty Romans on the same day by fire end their life. Of this kind of saints hitherto we have not had, at least in such a number. They are honored with these Verses, frigid indeed, yet here to be placed, while nothing else about them is available to us: "Τοὺς πέντε, πέντε, πέντε, πέντε γεννάδας / Πῦρ πέντε, πέντε, πέντε, καὶ πέντε φλέγει."
These five, five, five, five champions And five, five, five, five, the fire consumes.