CONCERNING THE HOLY MARTYRS SATURNINUS OR SATURNUS, CASSIUS OR CARSUS, VICTOR, PAPIAS, AND NICEPHORUS, AT NICOMEDIA IN BITHYNIA.
CommentarySaturninus, or Saturnus, Martyr at Nicomedia in Bithynia (Saint)
Cassius, or Carsus, Martyr at Nicomedia in Bithynia (Saint)
Victor, Martyr at Nicomedia in Bithynia (Saint)
Papias, Martyr at Nicomedia in Bithynia (Saint)
Nicephorus, Martyr at Nicomedia in Bithynia (Saint)
The Martyrology of Saint Jerome, published at Lucca in Italy from a parchment codex, after recording the preceding martyrs, adds the following without any place assigned: "Of Saturninus, Carsus, Nicephorus, Victor." But the ancient manuscript of Saint Jerome that is preserved among us adds both the place and a fifth martyr in these words: "At Nicomedia, of Saturnus, Carsus, Victor, Papias, Nicephorus." These are written thus in the Martyrology of Saint Jerome published at Paris: "At Nicomedia, of Saturnus, Cassius, Victor, with two other Martyrs, Papias, Nicephorus." The same is read in the Blumian Martyrology of Saint Jerome, but instead of Victor, Victorius is found. Hermann Greven in the Supplement to Usuard expressed it thus: "At Nicomedia, of Saints Saturninus, Cassius, Victor, with two others, Papias and Nicephorus." The veneration of these same five, with the place omitted, is inscribed in the Prague manuscript Martyrology, as also, with Victor excepted, in the Cologne manuscript of Saint Mary ad Gradus. In the Aachen manuscript are mentioned Saturninus, Victor, and Victorinus, but the last belongs to the following martyrs.