CONCERNING SAINT MARCIAN THE MARTYR
CommentaryMarcian, Martyr among the Greeks (Saint)
The calendars of the Latins and
Greeks celebrate many Marcians on various days: but to whom the same kind of death gave the crown of Martyrdom, absolutely none: and so we present him here as unique on the authority of the Greek Menaea, whence also Maximus Cytheraeus took him, whom we also found in the manuscript Synaxarion of our Petrus Franciscus Chiffletius in the very same words: On the same day, the holy Marcian was crushed by wood or clubs and was consummated. The time and place of his contest remain in obscurity.