ON SAINT EUPHRASIA THE MARTYR.
CommentaryEuphrasia Martyr, among the Greeks (S.)
The manuscript Menologion collected at the command of the Emperor Basil Porphyrogenitus has these joined together: The Contest of the holy Martyr Papas and the holy Martyr Euphrasia. In the manuscript Menaea of the Ambrosian library, marked with the letter O and the number 148, after relating the encomium of Saint Papas, the following is added: The Contest of the holy Martyr Euphrasia and of the holy Martyrs Romanus and Menignus who suffered at Parium. But Saint Romanus suffered at Caesarea in Palestine, and Saint Menignus at Parium in the Hellespont. Meanwhile, in reverse order, it is read in the manuscript Menaea of Paris, of the convent of the Annunciation of the Virgin of the Dominican Fathers, in this way: At Parium, the contest of Saint Euphrasia the Martyr, and of Saints Romanus and Menignus the Martyrs, unless these things were reversed by the translator. The rest is unknown to us. In the Martyrology of Saint Jerome, Saint Euphrasia is referred to as having suffered at Nicomedia with twenty companions on the thirteenth of March, and she is placed first before the rest. In the Menaea on the twentieth of March there is a Saint Euphrasia who suffered at Amisus in Paphlagonia with other women, and she is placed third among them. Another is the Saint Euphrasia, Virgin and Martyr of Nicomedia, whom we mentioned on the nineteenth of January, whose Acts we gave from the Menaea and the history of Nicephorus: but whether she is the one referred to on this day in the said Menaea and Menologion, we do not easily determine. In the mentioned Menologion on the nineteenth of January there is treated the last Euphrasia, beheaded under the Emperor Maximilian, as found in Ughelli, volume 6 of Sacred Italy.