ON ST. EULAMPIUS, MARTYR.
CommentaryEulampius Martyr (St.)
[1] This Martyr is celebrated by the Greeks in the Great Menaea and in Maximus of Cythera on March 5 with these words: Τῇ ἀυτῇ ἠμέρᾳ τοῦ ἁγίου Μάρτυρος Εὐλαμπίου. St. Eulampius The manner of death is indicated in the appended verses in this way:
Τράχηλον Ευλάμπιος ἐκτμηθεὶς ξίφει Τραχηλιῶσαν δυσσέβειαν ἀισχύνει.
Eulampius, dead by the sword that severed his neck, Confounds the impiety that raised its neck in arrogance.
Another Eulampius the Martyr is venerated in the same Menaea on July 3, other Martyrs named Eulampius. but companions are joined with him: Theodotus, Theodote, Asclepiodotes, and Golinduch. A third Eulampius with his sister Eulampia and two hundred others under the Emperor Maximian at Nicomedia, after other torments, was beheaded and is venerated on October 10 in the same Menaea and in the Latin Martyrologies; but the one recorded on this day alone appears to be different from both.
[2] In the manuscript Menaea of the Ambrosian Library at Milan, under letter O number 148, and in other manuscripts of Peter Francis Chifflet, ἐν Παλαιςίνῃ is added. did this one suffer in Palestine? But because no mention of St. Eulogius is made in these, we fear that this designation may have been transferred here from that Martyr. Both could have suffered in Palestine.