ON ST. MAGORIANUS, CONFESSOR, BROTHER OF ST. VIGILIUS THE BISHOP, AT TRENT IN THE SUBALPINE TERRITORY.
FIFTH CENTURY.
CommentarySt. Magorianus, Confessor, brother of St. Vigilius the Bishop, at Trent in the Subalpine territory.
[1] The principal Patron of the city of Trent is venerated as St. Vigilius, Bishop and Martyr of the same place, on June 26, at whose death two of his brothers were present, exposed likewise to the danger of losing their lives, so that for this reason they are recorded in his Acts as having merited the glory of Confessors. One of these brothers is called Claudianus, whom the Tridentines venerate on March 6 under the rite of a double Office, just as on this March 15 they venerate St. Magorianus, the other brother, concerning whom in the Proper of the Saints of the city and diocese of Trent, Sacred veneration published by order of Carlo Madruzzo, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church and Bishop of Trent, all things are prescribed as above for the feast of St. Claudianus. Certainly all the things which from the Acts of St. Vigilius we gave there pertain equally to St. Magorianus as to St. Claudianus, which the reader will find there. Here we give only this brief encomium from Ferrari's Catalog of the Saints of Italy.
[2] "Magorianus, born at Rome, son of St. Maxentia and brother of SS. Vigilius and Claudianus, encomium from Ferrari raised in Christian piety, followed St. Vigilius together with his mother and brother Claudianus and himself settled at Trent. There, serving the Lord in prayers, vigils, and other pious works, he assisted St. Vigilius in the pastoral care: and having accompanied him to overthrow the abominable worship of the vain gods, when St. Vigilius had been killed by the unbelievers with stones, he, with the help of his brother Claudianus, attended to carrying him back to Trent and burying him. He himself, laden with many merits, at length flew to heaven on the Ides of March."
[3] Ferrari also celebrates the same again in his general Catalog, as does George Cardoso in his Lusitanian Hagiologion. Place of birth Tamayo Salazar in his Spanish Martyrologion, on the grounds that St. Maxentia, a Spaniard of Coria, is said to have flourished at Trent in the recently devised Chronicle under the name of Dexter at the year 419: whereas in the ancient Acts of St. Vigilius, St. Maxentia the mother is reported to be "distinguished by Roman lineage" and "a woman born of a noble family at Rome." Which all affirm concerning St. Vigilius. We add, to conclude, a distich written in his praise by Bishop Braulio in his Poetical Martyrology:
"With holy mother and with two brothers, Trent he seeks; Then, full of merits, to the stars he goes."