ON ST. RUFINUS OR RUFUS
MARTYR AT ALEXANDRIA.
From the old copies of the same Hieronymian Martyrology and others.
CommentaryRufinus, or Rufus, Martyr at Alexandria (St.)
G. H.
This Martyr the ancient copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology record, and the Lucca and Blume copies in this manner: In the city of Alexandria, of St. Rufinus the Martyr. In the Corbie copy the name Rufus is written, as also in the Barberini manuscript and the Trier manuscript of St. Maximin. And, the arena omitted, in the Augsburg manuscript of St. Ulrich, the Paris manuscript of Labbe, and the Florentine manuscripts of the Medici library and of the Strozzi Museum. But in the Aachen manuscript and in Greven's Supplement to Usuard, it is thus read: At Alexandria, of St. Rufinus the Martyr. In the most ancient Epternach manuscript, very many companions are added in this manner: At Alexandria, of Rufinus and of eight hundred sixty-nine others. But because companions in nearly a similar number are added on this day to St. Alban the Martyr; whose name, omitted in this Epternach copy, immediately follows in the other copies, we have not dared to join to him the said companions: which it suffices to have here indicated.