ON THE HOLY THREE MARTYRS,
FROM GALATIA, A PROVINCE OF ASIA MINOR.
From the same Synaxary of Dijon.
CommentaryThree Martyrs, in Galatia (SS.)
D. P.
No less than Palestine, Galatia abounded in Martyrs,
whose names and combats more than once occur
in this work, They are said likewise to have been struck with the sword. than that it should be worth the labor
here to commemorate them, or to say much
in preface about a province most known
to all. Here from the aforesaid Synaxary, beyond the rest
which we have seen copious, and abounding in Saints not yet
known from elsewhere, the Three aforenamed Galatians without
a more distinct notice of the martyrial arena are indicated,
in the same manner as the seventy of Scythopolis. "The
holy three Martyrs from Galatia, by the sword
are perfected."
The holy three Martyrs from Galatia, by the sword are consummated,
where or when it is not explained, but
a Distich is added.
"Three men are we, but by the word of one accord
As one, behold, we three go to the sword."
Three though we be, as one man, with equal accord
We come, behold, to submit our head to the sword.