ON SS. ALEXANDER AND DIONYSIUS, MARTYRS AT THESSALONICA.
CommentaryAlexander, Martyr, at Thessalonica (St.)
Dion or Dionysius, Martyr, at Thessalonica (St.)
We follow the order of the Martyrology of St. Jerome, in the Paris edition of which, after the Martyrs already listed, the following is found: In the city of Thessalonica, of Alexander, Dionysius. The same is said in the manuscript codices of St. Jerome, but instead of the name Dionysius we read Dion in the Lucca copy, Diona with a diphthong in the Blumian, and Dioni in our Antwerp copy, in which for the following day these are repeated: At Thessalonica, of Dionysius, Alexander Palatinus. These are absent from three others, but from that one they were copied in the Reichenau manuscript. We gave a Palatine Martyr on the tenth of March, and that surname was attached to St. Gorgonius. From a single passage we cannot judge that those words were wrongly inserted here.