ON SAINT VIOLA
VIRGIN AND MARTYR AT VERONA.
CommentaryViola, Virgin and Martyr at Verona (St.)
G. H.
Philip Ferrari in the Catalogue of Saints, who are not in the Roman Martyrology, on this III day of May from the tablets of the Veronese Church writes these things: At Verona Commemoration of S. Viola Virgin and Martyr: and adds in the Notes that her Commemoration is held there on this day. But where she suffered and when, neither from the monuments of the aforesaid Church, nor from elsewhere had he been able to know. The same Ferrari in the Catalogue of Saints of Italy celebrates the same, asserting that at Verona she is venerated on V Nones of May, as the Ecclesiastical tablets composed for the use of the Veronese Church testify. The rest is unknown. Following Ferrari, Arthur du Monstier reported the same in the Sacred Gynaeceum. Nicholas Brautius Bishop of Sarsina in his Poetic Martyrology honors the same with this distich.
The cruel tyrant could lacerate the body with torments,
But could not violate the faith of Viola.