Martyrs

ON THE HOLY MARTYRS,

THERAPON, MACARIUS, MARCUS, AND MARCIA.

From the Manuscript Synaxaries of Paris and Milan.

Therapon, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Macarius, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Marcus, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Marcia, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

D. P.

The joined memory of these four is nowhere

else found than in

the notable Synaxary of the city of Constantinople,

which our Sirmond

acquired for his College at Paris, and

which from the old name of that College we often

call the Claromontane; where it is thus read, after the memory

of S. Rufus, whom we, following the Roman Martyrology,

deferred to the 21st of November: And

of the

holy

Martyrs

Therapon,

Macarius,

Marcus,

and

Marcia;

And of the Holy Martyrs, Therapon,

Macarius, Marcus, and Marcia. We found another in the Ambrosian

Library at Milan, where Therapon alone

is honored with the title of Martyr: and apart from

him are recorded the Saints Marcus and Maria, Macarius

being omitted, in this manner: and

of the

holy

Martyr

Therapon,

and

of the

holy ones

Marcus

and

Maria: which

I did not wish to conceal, if perhaps from elsewhere more light might

sometime be brought to bear here, by which it might be established that two or

three of the aforesaid are to be reckoned among the Confessors;

and that this is the Therapon, concerning whom—suffering in Cyprus

and translated to Constantinople—we treated on the 27th of May.

For it may be that the Relics of all four, or at least of three,

though venerable under different titles, were placed together in the same

location, and under that title were ascribed

to the same day as well.