CONCERNING S. ALEXIANUS, DEACON.
Commentary Alexianus, Deacon (S.)
The manuscript Martyrology of Utrecht, from the Collegiate Church of S. Mary, is sufficiently ancient. In it the illustrious memory of the Saints of England is often contained, so that it might seem to have been brought thither from England; it was copied at Utrecht around the year 1140, as seems to be established from the appended Chronicle and Paschal Table. In that Martyrology, the following words are contained under March 20: "Likewise of Alexanus, Deacon." In the Trier manuscript of S. Martin, equally or more ancient, it is written "of Alexianus, Deacon." It is also read thus in the additions to Usuard collected by Hermann Greven nearly two hundred years ago. We suspect that he was a Martyr, but we have not affixed that title, proposing the matter to the judgment of others, that they may compare it with other manuscripts.