Agatho

From the same ancient Martyrologies.

Commentary

Agatho, Martyr at Alexandria (S.)

Luceia, Martyr at Alexandria (S.)

Diogenes, Martyr at Alexandria (S.)

G. H.

The copy of the Hieronymian Martyrology

of Lucca, illustrated by Francesco Maria

Florentinio, records

these Martyrs in these words:

At Alexandria, of Agatho, Luceia

the Virgin, and Diogenes. The same things

are found in the Corbie Manuscript, which D. Luke

d'Achery had printed at Paris; although the name of Luceia

is not given in full. In the Echternach copy,

on the preceding day, the 25th of June, these things are found:

At Alexandria, of Agatho; likewise in the Manuscripts

of Reichenau, Rheinau, and Aachen:

And at Alexandria, of Agatho. But on this 26th

of June in the same Echternach copy these things are again indicated:

At Alexandria, of Lucia and Gignus. But with others

the Blume Manuscript brings them in thus: At Alexandria,

of Luceia the Virgin and Diogenes. The Manuscripts of Barberini,

of Trier of S. Maximin, of Augsburg of S. Udalric,

of Paris of Labbe, and Greven, thus celebrate two;

At Alexandria, of Agatho and Diogenes.

To these Notker adds Bigatus, of whom we treated on the

preceding day. The same two, without the arena of Alexandria,

are commemorated in the Manuscripts of Monte Cassino and Altemps;

and Diogenes alone in the Manuscript of Reichenau: in which

Acteia is joined at Rome: where perhaps the Luceia

here recorded is understood, from whom is distinct another Luceia

or Lucia the Roman, whom we referred to the 24th of June.

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