Martyrs

ON THE HOLY MARTYRS

NESTORIUS, MICTONIUS AND ANTONY. LIKEWISE SECUNDIANUS AND MARCELLIANUS.

Nestorius, Martyr (S.)

Mictonius, or Mittorius, Martyr (S.)

Antoninus, Martyr (S.)

Secundianus, Martyr (S.)

Marcellianus, Martyr (S.)

G. H.

After the reported forty Martyrs, of whom below with S. Silvanus we treat, these are reported in the MS. Epternach. And elsewhere of Nestor, Mictonius, Antoninus. Who of these the middle is placed, in the MS. Corbie at Paris printed, is called Mitton, in the MSS. Lucca and Blume Mittorius. And the other two in the same way everywhere are written. In the MSS. Augsburg of S. Udalric and Paris of Labbe is remembered Nestor. In the MS. Arras is celebrated the passion of Antoninus the Martyr. In the MS. Aachen besides Antoninus the Martyr is reported Antoninus, who also is inscribed in the MSS. Augsburg and Ado of the Queen of Sweden. To these three in the title we adjoin SS. Secundianus and Marcellianus, of whom and of Florianus the Martyrs the birthday celebrates the old Monte Cassino Martyrology, in Lombardic characters written. We omit Florianus, because already, although under doubt, him we gave among the Martyrs of Africa, and another we give at Lauriacum in Riverside Noricum with martyrdom crowned.

ON THE HOLY MARTYRS

NEOPHYTUS, GAIUS AND GAIANUS, LIKEWISE ZENO, MARCIUS AND MACARIUS.

Neophytus, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Gaius, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Gaianus, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Zeno, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Marcius, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Macarius, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

G. H.

The memory of these Martyrs on various days is recalled, and first on the day IV of May in the MS. Synaxarion Greek of the Church of Constantinople, The cult of the 3 first, which belongs to the College of Clermont of the Society of Jesus at Paris, in which these are had: The contest of the holy Martyrs Neophytus, Gaius and Gaianus. Their celebrity is performed in the venerable church of the holy, glorious and in working miracles eminent Cosmas and Damian, May 4, 5 and 7. which is in the buildings of Darius called. Then on the fifth day of May with the same almost words is celebrated in the printed Menaea, and in Maximus of Cythera the Bishop and in the MS. of Turin is indicated the contest of SS. Neophytus, Gaius and Gaiana Martyrs. But on the seventh day of May in the MS. Menaea, which in the keeping of Peter Francis Chifflet of the Society of Jesus we found at Dijon, these are read: The holy Gaianus, Gaius and Neophytus by the sword slain the martyrdom consummated. Are adjoined then these verses: I am left: but the sword bore also me, As my comrades, Gaius the Martyr says. I was left behind: the sword has taken me too, Like my companions, Gaius the Martyr says. Finally on the eleventh of August they are reported in the prior MS. Synaxarion, and are adjoined the companions Zeno, Marcius and Macarius, Of all August 11. and is said the celebrity to be performed in an elevated church of SS. Cosmas and Damian as above. And the same are in the Menaea of Milan of the Ambrosian library and the double of Turin of the Duke of Savoy and others of the Dominican Fathers of the Congregation of S. Louis at Paris. All of whom on this IV of May we give. If nevertheless some Acts we could obtain (for that some existed persuades the circumstance of Gaius slain after the rest, in the distich noted) they will be referred to the day XI of August. Meanwhile from the condition of the place edited we are admonished, that the aforementioned church of SS. Cosmas and Damian is itself, which, on the testimony of the Chronicle of Alexandria or more truly of Constantinople the author; in Heraclius the Emperor's age invaded the Avars: for Nicetas Choniates book 3 of Alexius Comnenus the hill of Blachernae calls: but this church above is said to have been, in the buildings of Darius; whether that it be distinguished from the other suburban of the same Saints church, in the buildings of Paulinus situated, the place of the cult in the suburb of CP. at Blachernae. outside those walls, which to the Blachernal D. Virgin's Basilica to that to the city to join he led around Heraclius, testifies Codinus on the origins? To remember that church seems Cedrenus, when he describes how from the aforesaid Blachernal Basilica's roof Michael Balbus the signal of war raised against the rebel Thomas, the city and empire threatening and a camp having, in the buildings of Paulinus where the of the wonder-working Anargyri shrine is established, where of the wonderful Anargyri the temple stands. But since the very place was at Blachernae, as from Cedrenus' context appears, difficult to be believed it is, two there churches of the same Saints Cosmas and Damian to have been; and rather we are persuaded by so many names one and the same temple to be signified, in which of the Saints aforesaid the bodies deposited were, not in one perhaps place or time slain, and brought.