ON SAINT LEONTIUS THE SHEPHERD,
HONORED BY THE GREEKS.
Notice from two manuscript Synaxaria.
Leontius the Shepherd, honored by the Greeks (Saint)
G. H.
We related above, on this day, Saint Leontius, the most celebrated Martyr at Tripoli in Phoenicia: concerning whom, when a very long elogium had been produced, in the ancient manuscript Synaxarium of the Church of Constantinople, there is added: The memory of our holy Father Leontius, the Shepherd, buried near the city. And the same things are read in the manuscript of the Dijon college. In the Lives of the Fathers mention is made of several pious men called by the name of Leontius, but we could not gather concerning this Saint Leontius the Shepherd who he is, or what is the city near which he was buried. It says "Asty," City: which word the Athenians made peculiar to their own city, whence both "Astoi" and "Astai" meant Athenian citizens. In the same way that "Polis," city, was peculiarly said of Alexandria, and "Urbs" the City to this time of Rome. Whether, therefore, near Athens Saint Leontius, practicing the anchoritic discipline under the profession of a shepherd, was buried, let him judge who can. For the City of Constantinople, toward which otherwise I more incline, I have hitherto found nothing for asserting to it a Saint of this kind.
ON SAINT ERASMUS,
AMONG THE GREEKS.
From the Dijon manuscript Synaxarium.
CommentaryErasmus, among the Greeks (Saint)
G. H.
The Dijon manuscript Synaxarium already praised has, on this same 18th of June, thus: On the same day the holy Erasmus is perfected in peace. On the same day Saint Erasmus rested in peace; and these verses are added, in which there is an allusion to the name of Erasmus, which sounds "Amiable":
Dying Erasmus says, "I am sweetly at ease, For to me death is a thing to be loved erasmion."
Dying, Erasmus says, "It is sweet for me: For to me it has always seemed amiable, to die."