Martyrs

ON THE HOLY MARTYRS

CYRILLUS, CENDEUS, DIONIUS, ACACIUS, CRISPION, ZENON,

IN LOWER MYSIA OR BULGARIA.

Cyrillus, Martyr in Lower Mysia or Bulgaria (St.)

Cendeus, Martyr in Lower Mysia or Bulgaria (St.)

Dionius, Martyr in Lower Mysia or Bulgaria (St.)

Acacius, Martyr in Lower Mysia or Bulgaria (St.)

Crispion, Martyr in Lower Mysia or Bulgaria (St.)

Zenon, Martyr in Lower Mysia or Bulgaria (St.)

G. H.

The fourth this Martyrs' class in the most ancient Hieronymian codex at Epternac kept thus is indicated: At Axiopolis, of Cyrillus, Cendis, Dionius, Acaicus, Cripion, Zenon. Of these some names otherwise are written in the apograph Corbey printed at Paris, namely of Dionius, Accisus, Crispionius. In the Lucca codex they are read in this manner, Cendeus, Dionius, Acacus, Crispion. To this agrees the MS. Blumian, except that the name of Acacus is wanting. In the MS. Reichenau is attributed to Axiopolis S. Cyrillus, but the companions four added pertain to the following class. But in the MS. Treves of S. Maximinus rightly are joined Acacus, above Acaicus & Crispio. The aforesaid Cyrillus is commemorated in the MSS. Treves of S. Martin, Augsburg of S. Udalric, Parisian of Labbé, Florarium of the Saints, & the Calendar third & fourth Capuan in Michael the Monk. In the MS. Casinensian is said S. Cyrillus a Bishop. But Cyrillus, Acacius, or Achatius, & Crispio are indicated in the MSS. Prague & Cologne of Mary at the Steps.

[2] About Axiopolis, a city of Lower Mysia at the Danube in the modern Bulgaria, it was treated on the day preceding IX of May, when were referred three Martyrs, whose names not much differ from those which here are referred, & are Quirillus, Quindeus & Zenon. Whether therefore these with other companions again are repeated, who certainly will discern? Under this caution them here separately we retain, just as in the said ancient monuments we found: whether rightly, to further disquisition we leave to be defined, & we add the MS. Hibernian of the monastery Tamlacht, in which are the names of Quirillus, Gindeus, Dioninus, Achacus, Crispo, Zenon: but on the preceding day there is had the name of Cindeus, who seems hither to be referred.

ON THE HOLY MARTYRS

APHRODISIUS, PRIVATUS, GIDDINUS, SATURNINUS, PETRUS, DATIVUS, FORTUNUS,

LUCELLA, MAXIMA, MATRONA, MUTTACUS, CILICUS, VICTURUS, JANUARIUS, SECUSA,

VICTURINA, BONOSA, CONSTANTIA, MAXIMUS, JANUARIUS, GEMINUS, SAMINUS,

PEREGRINA, SENTERUS, ERULUS, MAJULUS, MARULLUS, FELIX, INDICUS, REFLENTUS,

TINNUS, FELION, TAVINTUS, SELEUCUS, ZETULA, JANUARIA, FORTUNATA, TECLACIA,

DONATUS, ROGATA, PAULINA, LAVARUS, NINA, JANUARIUS, CANDEDIA, HONORIUS,

SATURNINUS, SATURNUS, SECUNDUS, DONATUS, SALUTOR, FELIX, MARES, NAPPOLUS,

CODDEUS, DARUS, NASOMOSUS, VICTOR, SATULUS, MASUTUS, MALETUS, SEVERUS,

MARCIANUS, FORTUNUS, SATURUS, QUINTALUS, SEVERIOLUS, FIDELIS, QUINTUS, FAUSTUS,

DONATUS, EXCRITATUS, BIRICUS, SERTIMUS, LUCINUS, RESTITUTUS, DATIVUS, JANUARIA,

NINA, FELIX, SARIRA, MARCELLA, MATRONA, TUJA, LUCUSA, VICTORINA,

FELICIA, JOCUNDA, GLORIOSA, ROGATINA, VICTURINA, JULIA, PRIMA,

FORTUNATUS, MARIA, ROGATUS, MUNNUS, JACOBUS, SEPTIMINA, INCIDUS, TUNNUS,

FELICIO, SELEUCUS, HONORATUS, LUCINUS, ZEBBERIA, VENUSTA, SATURNA,

QUINTULA, CYRILLUS, DIONYSIUS,

AT TARSUS IN CILICIA.

Aphrodisius, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Privatus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Giddinus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Saturninus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Petrus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Dativus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Fortunus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Lucella, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Maxima, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Matrona, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Muttucus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Cilicus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Victurus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Januarius, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Secusa, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Victurina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Bonosa, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Constantia, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Maximus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Januarius, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Geminus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Saminus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Peregrina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Senterus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Erulus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Majulus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Marullus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Felix, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Indicus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Reflentus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Tinnus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Felion, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Saturus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Quintalus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Severiolus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Fidelis, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Quintus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Faustus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Donatus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Excritatus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Biricus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Sertimus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Lucinus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Restitutus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Dativus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Januaria, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Nina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Felix, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Sarira, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Marcella, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Matrona, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Tuja, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Lucusa, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Victorina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Felicia, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Jocunda, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Tavintus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Seleucus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Zetula, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Januaria, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Fortunata, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Teclacia, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Donatus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Rogata, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Paulina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Lavarus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Nina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Januarius, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Candedia, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Honorius, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Saturninus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Saturnus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Secundus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Donatus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Salutor, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Felix, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Mares, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Nappolus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Coddeus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Darus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Nasomosus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Victor, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Satulus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Masutus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Maletus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Severus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Marcianus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Fortunus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Gloriosa, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Rogatina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Victurina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Julia, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Prima, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Fortunatus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Maria, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Rogatus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Munnus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Jacobus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Septimina, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Incidus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Tunnus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Felicio, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Seleucus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Honoratus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Lucinus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Zebberia, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Venusta, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Saturna, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Quintula, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Cyrillus, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

Dionysius, Martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia (St.)

BY THE AUTHOR G. H.

The last this is & greatest Martyrs' class of the Hieronymian Martyrology, which in the most ancient apograph Epternac thus is commemorated: At Tarsus of Cilicia, of Aphrodisius, Privatus, Giddinus, Saturninus, Petrus, Dativus, Furtunus, Lucella, Maxina, Matrona, Muttacus, Cicilus, Victurus, Januarius, Secura, Victuria, Bonosus, Constantia, Maximus, Geminus, Januarius, Saminus, Perecria, Sinteria, Nulus, Majola, Marulus, Felix, Indidus, Reflentus, Tinnus, Filion, Tinthisus, Levius, Zetula, Januaria, Furtunata, Teclacia, Rogata, Paulina, Lavarus, Nina, Januarius, Condelia, Honoria, Saturninus, Saturninus, Secundus, Donatus, Solutor, Felix, Marcinappolus, Cuddeus, Darus, Nasomosus; likewise of Victor, Satulus, Masutus, Maleus, Severus, Marcianus, Fuitunus, Saturus, Quintalus, Severiolus, Felix, Quintus, Faustus, Donatus, Excritatus, Septimus, Lucinus, Restitutus, Biricus, Dativa: likewise of Januaria, Nina, Felix, Satira, Marcilla, Matrona, Tuja, Luesa, Victurina: likewise of Felicia, Jocunda, Gloriosa, Rogatina, Victurina, Julia, Prima: likewise of Furtunatus, Mana, Rogatus, Munnus, Jacobus, Septimina, Maurellus, Incidus, Tunnus, Felicio, Seleucus, Honoratus, Saturnus, Lucinus, Gebberia, Venusta, Saturna, Quintuba: likewise of Cyrillus, Dionysius. These things in the said codex Epternac, a thousand about years ago written. Which with some diversity in the other of the Martyrology Hieronymian apographs are read. And first in the MS. Blumian toward the beginning thirteen Martyrs are wanting with the arena Tarsus, which also is not in the other MSS. Lucca & Corbey. But that the diversity of names more easily may be understood, them by decades we distinguish. In the first decade elsewhere is read Fortunus, & in the Lucca Dativa. In the second decade in the place of Cicilus, in the Lucca is read Silicus, & in the Blumian Cilicius. But Secura in the Lucca Secusa, in the other two Sacusa; Victuria, in others Victurina; but is wanting in the Blumian. For Bonosus & Maximus elsewhere is Bonosa & Maxima; but this is wanting again in the Blumian. In the third decade after Saminus are wanting eleven in the Blumian, & in the place of Perecria, elsewhere is Peregria & Peregrina: likewise in the place of Sinteria, Rulus, Majola, elsewhere are the names Sinterus, Erulus, Majulus, & in the Lucca Matulus. So Marulus & Indidus, in others Marullus & Marulla, & Indicus. In the fourth decade Filion, in others Felion: likewise Tinthisus, in others Tuintus & Thuintus: Leucus, in others Seleucus; Zetula, in the MS. Lucca Zeculla: & Fortunata, in the Corbey Fortunatus; & Teclacia, in others Theclacia & Tedetia, to which is subjoined the name of Donatus, who was wanting in the Epternac. In the fifth decade Lavarus & Saturnus the names are wanting in others, as Januarius in the Lucca & Blumian. In the place of Condelia & Honoria in others is Candedia & Honorius: & for Saturninus, in the Blumian is Saturnina. And for Solutor elsewhere is Salutaris: but is wanting in the Lucca. In the sixth decade Cuddeus in others is Coddeus, & in the Lucca Cotedeus: in the place of Marcianus in the Blumian is Marcia, as in the place of Furtunus elsewhere is Fortunus, & in the Blumian Fortinus. Then in the place of Quintalus & Felix, elsewhere is read Quintalus & Fidelis. In the eighth decade the name of Excritatus, in the Corbey MS. is Excruatus: but Biricus in the Blumian Birocius, & in the Lucca Periocus. Then Dativa the name in others is Dativus: & Januaria, in the Lucca Januarius: but Satira in the Blumian Satura, & in the Corbey Satica: but Marcilla in others Marcella. In the ninth decade Tuja, in the Corbey Tula, in the Blumian Tina: & Luesa in others Lucusa; as Victorina, Victurina & Victoria: from Julia moreover are wanting XIV Martyrs' names in the Blumian. In the tenth decade Mana, in others Maria; Rogatus the name in the Corbey is Rogata: & for Munnus other MSS. Mennus & Monnus have: & so for Septimina, in the Corbey Septimia; & for Maurellus & Indicus, in the Lucca is found Maurella & Indicus. In the eleventh & last decade in the place of Tunnus in others is Tunus, & he who above to those was wanting, is interposed Saturnus, & is added the name of Quintula.

[2] From the reported here Saints inscribed are the MSS. Treves of S. Maximinus & of the Church of Prague, the names of Constantia, Geminus, Peregrina. In which also manner the names of Felix, Fausta, Maria, inserted are in the MSS. Augsburg of S. Udalric & Parisian of Labbé. In the MS. Tamlacht of Affrodisius, Primitius & Jacobus. A doubt to be moved can be whether S. Aphrodisius, of these Martyrs the Standard-bearer, a singular cult has on the day preceding IX of May: which to others to be discussed I propose, & from further, if any can from elsewhere be had knowledge, I await a resolution: meanwhile each one I leave in the faith of the ancient monuments, nothing besides names suggesting.

ON SS. TERTULLINUS AND CHRYSANTHUS,

ROMAN MARTYRS TRANSLATED TO LUXEMBURG

Commentary of R. P. Alexander Wilthemius S. J.

Tertullinus, Roman Martyr, deposited at Luxemburg (St.)

Chrysanthus, Roman Martyr, deposited at Luxemburg (St.)

BY A. ALEX. WILTHEM.

I write the coming to us of the holy Martyrs Tertullinus & Chrysanthus, with this counsel, that posterity may know, & to the Saints their honor may congratulate. The form of writing, so that neither I omit, what is worth the trouble to say, nor anything above the true, which in such an argument is prone, I extol. Letters & public tablets repeatedly I have appended, because I know that kind of monuments by those, who things not words pursue, deservedly to be made of much. And because of the true the most special to me care is, so I write, that of the deed done present to have been I be understood. And these for the plan's reason enough: but for the matter's brevity, perhaps even too much.

CHAPTER I.

The body of S. Tertullinus to Luxemburg brought, S. Chrysanthus's at Rome obtained.

[2] In the year 1623, at Rome from the cemetery of Callistus various of the Saints bodies were dug out. Had made of that matter the power Gregory XV the Pontiff maximus, by a written little brief to Innocentius de maximis, the Bishop of Britonorium. Dwelt then at Rome Mathias Clenschius, sprung from Krauthem a village Luxemburgian, of our college Germanic an alumnus, now of sacred Theology a Doctor & Parish-priest of Crov at the Moselle, There was in the same dwelling Germanic a noble youth Theodoric Robein of Sinsfeldt, by nation Luxemburgian. They of friends having used the work, In the year 1623 are said the bodies of SS. Tertullinus & Soteris from Bartholomew Ruggerius the Roman bodies two of the Saints obtained, of Saint Tertullinus the Martyr Clenschius, of Saint Soteris the Virgin, Robenius. Situated had been Tertullinus in the Catacombs at D. Sebastian, in the place of the cemetery of Callistus (which also itself among the Roman cemeteries far most noble is) most celebrated. To have been moreover D. Tertullinus a chief some of the martyrs, both the place itself of the sepulchre & the tomb with the title of the name of Tertullinus, & a lamp set near & of a palm the likeness, under the monogram of Christ expressed, easily argued. From the monogram, the letter on the right α whole, on the left ω half, long antiquity had worn away, by this exemplar. So great a treasure having gotten Clenschius, judged, nowhere it himself more rightly than in his fatherland to be able to deposit. But because toward the Order ours, by which both at present at Rome in letters he was instructed, & whose lately the gymnasia at Luxemburg & Verdun from boyhood he had frequented, with a notable he was of mind; but then also, because of this College the family affairs at that time administered his brother Nicolaus Clenschius a Priest, he wished in our temple the bones of D. Tertullinus, for eternal memory & veneration sake to be placed. But before, than that to us to be deported he should take care, a bone one he took out, & with Robenius his companion exchanged, having received in turn of Saint Soteris a bone. Moreover D. Soteris's body, to the Virgins of the cenobium of D. Thomas, of the order of D. Bernard in

the bounds of the Treveri at the Gelbis river, by gift of Robenius fell. Tertullinus, with the bone of D. Soteris, thus to us came.

[3] When in the year 1625 turning Priests two ours, first in the year 1625 to the College of S. J. of Luxemburg it is brought, Ægidius Chisairius of the Province Gallo-Belgic the Procurator, & John the Provost of Theology Doctor & Professor, from the City about to return into the Province were; to them Clenschius the sacred bones to be deported, & to this College to be handed over gave. They in the year 1626 hither brought, the sacred bones duly sealed conveyed. And that about the faith of those bringing there should not be doubt's place, standing by Antonius de Torres, the College's rector, & Francis Moragius the notary Apostolic, by the Parish-priest of Bellmont, who then also with ours from the City returned, & John the Provost, the little chest, in which D. Tertullinus's bones were, was opened; swearing in conceived words Chisairius, himself the sacred bones, just as at Rome to be brought he had received, sealed & closed to bring. Then the same Chisairius, & the rest then by his example, to the sacred pledges little beads of prayer venerating applied. Letters also of Francis Aquilanus the Roman, that for testimony they might be, to the Actuary Luxemburgian, who for that matter called was present, were exhibited. Asked then the Rector the Actuary, that the little chest he should close, & with the witnesses, the reverend Men Bartholomew Merlin the Dean of Christianity of Luxemburg & Parish-priest at D. Michael, & also Theodoric Sandtius the Parish-priest at D. Nicolas he should seal; that afterward without fraud or evil guile, the sacred relics to the Bishop to be examined & approved to be proposed could. Asked also that into the tablets he should refer, what present himself had done, seen, read, & heard, the tablets to this exemplar wrote out.

[4] In the name of the Lord Amen. Through this present public instrument to all let it be evident plainly & be known, that in the year from the nativity of the same Lord one thousand above six hundred twenty-six, in the ninth indiction, but on the tenth day of the month of January, in the morning, between the eighth & ninth hour, of the Pontificate of the most holy in Christ Father & Lord our, by R. P. Ægidius Chisaire, the Lord Urban, by divine providence Pope the Eighth, in the year fourth, in the college of the Society of Jesus of Luxemburg, in my of the public Notary & of the witnesses underwritten, for this specially called & asked, presence, present & personally constituted the reverend Father Ægidius Chisaire, of the said Society a religious Presbyter & of the province Gallo-Belgic of the same Society the procurator, from the city Roman returning, to us exhibited nearly two-foot a certain little chest, inside with blue cloth & outside with red leather covered, in which were contained bones certain of a human body, which the aforesaid Father affirmed & by oath corroborated, to be those the same altogether bones, which to himself now from six weeks in the city Roman by the Venerable Lord Mathias Clensch, son of Peter Clensch from Krauthem, hither to Luxemburg to the reverend Father Antonius de Torres, of the College of the same Society the Rector, to be brought were handed, together with letters attestatorial, by a Notary Apostolic in the City made, which the same Father to us also exhibited; which faith made, to be those of the true body of S. Tertullinus the martyr, just as more fully in the aforesaid attestatorials was contained. And in our there presence, the very Father Ægidius Chisaire, of a rosary by touching, as true of holy Tertullinus the relics, to venerate began: whom followed the Venerable Lord Francis Morage the Notary Apostolic, & in the town of Bellmont Father from the City returned. But since without the Ordinary of the place's previous approbation, no of the Saints relics to public of the faithful veneration to be exposed can & ought, asked us the aforesaid Father Antonius de Torres, that for all fraud & suspicion whatsoever to be removed, I the Notary & the asked witnesses below named, the aforesaid little chest with the holy relics, from the hands of the aforesaid Father Ægidius Chisaire we should accept, & we ourselves it should close, & with seals ours should seal: in so far as in this manner in its time to the Ordinary of the place it could be established, to be contained in that little chest the true body, which the oft-said Father Ægidius Chisaire in the City from Lord Mathias Clensch had received, as the same at Rome he had received from D. Mathias Clensch. & according to the aforesaid attestatorials is affirmed to be the body of Saint Tertullinus the martyr. To whose just & pious petition assenting I the Notary & the witnesses underwritten, the little chest, which to us was handed open, accepted; & it we closed, & with our seals ordinary sealed. In whose matter's confirmation & attestation I Nicolaus Bastgen, by the sacred Apostolic & Imperial authorities created, & in the Catholic Majesty's provincial Luxemburgian Council admitted Notary, the present this instrument thereupon made: & it together with the witnesses now to be named, with my own hand subscribed. And done were these things at Luxemburg in the College of the Society of Jesus oft-said, & there in the upper hall toward the church of the Fathers Franciscan, present in the same place the Reverend & Venerable Lords, Lord Bartholomew Merlin the Dean of Christianity & Pastor at Saint Michael of Luxemburg, & Lord Theodoric Sandt the Pastor at Saint Nicolas there, witnesses of faith worthy, for the premises asked specially & required, in the year, day & hour prescribed. N. Bastgen Notary.

[5] These all things, although to the most severe any judge faith abundantly they made, the body of D. Tertullinus, which to have been taken from the cemetery of S. Callistus, which to us with so great caution & care had been brought, true & by no means supposititious or adulterine to be; because however in the tablets of the Actuary Roman, Francis Aquilanus, about whom before was said, not clearly enough written out it was, whence dug that body was: lest that matter sometime a scruple should cast on religious & suspicious minds; written it was to Rome, & sought, in what place found D. Tertullinus's sacred bones had been? Abundantly to the sought enough was done. Bartholomew indeed Ruggerius, a solemn oath conceived, & touched after the manner of the elders the Gospel codex, his words receiving Francis Bitto the Actuary, declared the place, where dug up D. Tertullinus's body; & what there of Martyrdom signs, & what of the sepulchre title Antonius Pracca the Actuary, who to those digging was present, had beheld; & ratified to have held, that Mathias Clenschius with the sacred D. Tertullinus's body otherwise he had gifted. Of these matters by Bitto the Actuary on the XVII day of December tablets public made of this argument.

[6] it is confirmed by a Notarial attestation. In the name of the Lord Amen. By the present public instrument to all everywhere let it be evident plainly & be known, that in the year from the nativity of the same Lord one thousand six hundred twenty-six, in the ninth indiction, but on the tenth seventh day of the month of December, but of the Pontificate of the most holy in Christ father & Lord our Lord Urban, by Divine providence Pope the Eighth, in his year fourth; since it is, as is asserted, that otherwise by D. Bartholomew Ruggerius was gifted & granted to D. Mathias Clensch, of the College Germanic for the time an alumnus, the body of S. Tertullinus the Martyr, & is also that in the said donation it had not been established, the said body to have been dug out, & exhumed from the cemetery of Saint Callistus the Pope, nor about it any faith had appeared: therefore, that the truth may shine forth, hence it is, that in my of the Notary public & of the witnesses underwritten for these things specially called, held & asked presence, present & personally constituted D. Bartholomew Ruggerius, to me the Notary well known, of his own accord & by every better manner & medium by oath said, declared, & affirmed, that among other bodies of holy Martyrs men & women & Virgins in the cemetery of S. Callistus the Pope at the Catacombs of S. Sebastian, outside the walls of the City dug out & found, was found & exhumed the body of S. Tertullinus with a sign for Christ, & & signs asked it was by D. Antonius Pracca the Notary public, who present was in the said excavations, made with the faculties & license, by of happy memory, Gregory XV the year III granted to the Most Illustrious & most reverend D. Innocentius de Maximis, the Bishop of Britonorium, just as from the Kalends of April, assenting D. Bartholomew, the donation otherwise by him made, to be just & of faith worthy, again to the said D. Mathias Clensch, the said body of S. Tertullinus he gave, granted, & gave, gives, grants, & gives, & again by medium of oath, confirms & affirms, to be of those very dug out & exhumed in the abovesaid cemetery, & with the faculties abovesaid; & he does not assert otherwise nor in another manner. Upon which all & each of the premises, asked it was of me the Notary public underwritten, that one or several, public or publics, I should make & make an instrument & instruments, just as need shall be & asked I shall be. Done at Rome present there, hearing & understanding R. D. Joseph Interviso de Anania, & D. John Stephen Briganti the Roman, witnesses to the aforesaid called & asked. I Francis Bittus Roman public by God's grace, by Apostolic & Imperial authority, Notary, about the aforesaid asked I was. Therefore the present instrument I subscribed & published asked, in faith. Followed the attestation of the conservators of the Chamber white of the City of the legality of the Notary Bittus & appended was from a little cord silken red & golden, a sheath round of bronze, in which wax red, impressed with the insignia of the Senate Roman. In the fold were the images of the monogram of Christ in part worn away, & of a palm to the sepulchre of D. Tertullinus found.

[7] Brought to us the tablets, although to the most religious any one all scruple easily removed, Of the bodies six under Urban 8 dug up again, other however from other causes things fell, why publicly not yet to be venerated the relics of D. Tertullinus could. Meanwhile Urban VIII the Pontiff Maximus, to John Baptist de Alteriis, the Vicegerent of the Cardinal Vicar of the City, power made, the bodies sacred from the cemetery of Callistus to lead out, & them to whomsoever it had seemed to give; that publicly in temples placed, cult & veneration they might have. Was present, when were dug up those bodies, John Baptist Marus, a canon at D. Angelo in the fish forum, of both Laws Doctor & of consistorial suits Secretary. But of the bodies then found, six to John of the Annunciation, a man religious of the order of the most holy Trinity of the redemption of captives, came, of the Saints Cyril, Chrysanthus, Constantius, Florus, Crescentius, Theodore the martyrs: of whom one provident God to our College by this of things series destined. For many years wretched to this Province seemed to me, in so great of bounds amplitude, scarcely one & another Saint to be, whose mortal body for protection & patronage was held. I perceived besides, when through the neighboring of this province in mind I was carried around, no almost of any name to be a city, a cenobium almost none, where not situated of the Saints one, or several were. Whence a pious certain coming-on envy, I wished oftentimes, that the City of our province

chief, either one publicly holy body might have, by which both equal would be its with the other neighboring cities felicity & of heavenly protection an equal security. And perhaps also I feared, lest little religious we should seem the Luxemburgians, to whom about procuring some sacred body care nothing was. of whom four given to R. P. Flor. Montmorency in the year 1645 Nor me it escaped to be in our College D. Tertullinus's bones: but their cult public I desired; which the hope was not doubtfully to be about to exist, if a body brought to us from elsewhere sacred some, to the relics of D. Tertullinus into the light to be brought forth, an excellent occasion gave. These things when most in mind I agitated, John le Pessier, of the province Gallo-Belgic the Provost, & Florentius Montmorency the Rector then of the College of Douai, in the year one thousand six hundred forty-fifth for the journey Roman themselves girded, about to go to the comitia, which, Mutius Vitelleschus the Provost of the whole Order ours being dead, about a successor to be created very numerous had been indicted. I having reckoned to be present the time, in which the sum of my vow about a sacred to be procured body could be obtained, although that matter to me properly little pertained, dared however to the Provost of the province, & present before he should set out, & absent & now at Rome acting, by letters given to him, my mind to set forth. He of himself prompt to the cult of the Saints to advance, so all things did, that of my desire the effect very soon I saw. For thus in the following year, on the twenty-fourth of March, to me from the City he wrote: Mindful I was of the postulation by your Reverence made about the body of some Saint. it is obtained to be sent to Luxemburg the body of S. Chrysanthus, For when recently had been offered by one of the Fathers ours to R. P. the Assistant four of the saints Bodies, & two of them he had destined for our temple of Namur, I effected that one he should grant to your temple yours. But these are the Saints: S. Constantius, S. Cyrillus, S. Chrysanthus, S. Florus. These letters received, it cannot be said, who not my only (which little it mattered) but of all in this city was of mind the sense, to whom of that matter the report came; especially, when from our men they understood, by this opportunity, of Saint Tertullinus the remains into public about to come forth. Nor much after, on the second day of June, Florentius Montmorency created recently of Germany Assistant, by written to me for another cause letters, to the Rector & me, & to the College & to the whole city, his gift congratulated. From which letters we knew, what hitherto we had been ignorant of, the Saint, whose body to us had fallen, to be Chrysanthus the Martyr. I shall have done worth the trouble, if, in what manner or by what Right those four Saints' bodies, to which two then were added, to the Assistant of Germany by gift of Thomas Candidus, came, I write. The matter whole these tablets will open:

[8] In the name of the Lord. Amen. By the present public Instrument, to all everywhere let it be evident plainly, & be known, that in the year from the nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, with the exemplar of the attestation Roman of each one's truth. one thousand six hundred forty-sixth, in the indiction fourteenth, but on the twentieth sixth day of the month of March, but of the Pontificate of the most holy in Christ Father & Lord our Innocentius by Divine providence Pope X, in his year second, in my of the Secretary & of the witnesses underwritten presence, present & personally constituted D. Thomas Candidus a Venetian, to me the Secretary most known, asserting, once to himself to have been given some of the saints Martyrs bodies by of good memory the reverend Father Brother John of the Annunciation of the Order of the most holy Trinity of the redemption of captives, of the brothers Discalced on occasion of the extraction made from the cemetery of Callistus, of the indult of happy memory Urban the Pope VIII by the Most Eminent & Most Reverend D. John Baptist de Alteriis, once the Most Eminent & Most Reverend D. Cardinal of the City Vicar's Vicegerent: to which extraction of the said holy Martyrs, I the Secretary was present, to the effect to others of giving, from the city of transmitting, & in churches of exposing. Hence it is, that the said D. Thomas Candidus, using the abovesaid faculties to himself granted, of his own accord & by every better manner, handed over & consigned, to the Most Illustrious & Reverend Father Florentinus de Memorency, the Assistant of Germany of the Society of Jesus, present & accepting, the underwritten of the holy Martyrs bodies, namely, the body of S. Cyrillus M. the body of S. Chrysanthus M. the body of S. Constantius M. the body of S. Florus M. the body of S. Crescentius M. the body of S. Theodore M. to the effect the said sacred bodies to others of giving, from the City of transmitting, & in churches of exposing; asserting by medium of his oath, the abovesaid sacred bodies to be those very ones, as above, to himself given by the aforesaid Father Brother John of the Annunciation. Which abovesaid sacred bodies, the same Most Illustrious & exceedingly reverend Father Florentius de Memorency, with the greater, which he could, received veneration, to the effect, as above, of disposing. And that about their identity never to be doubted it could, I the Secretary, suddenly & forthwith, before all the witnesses, every single sacred body I replaced in its little chest of wood white, to the proportion, & with a white little cord I bound, & in two places with my wonted sign with Spanish wax I fortified & sealed, not only in the manner & form premised, but also in every other better manner. Upon which all & each &c. Done at Rome in the house Professed of the Society of Jesus, present there, hearing, & understanding, D. James de Spiex of Lucerne of the Helvetians, & D. Bartholomew Laurus the Roman, son of Antonius Laurus, witnesses to these aforesaid all & each held, called specially & asked. I John Bapt. Marus, as above, for whom faith made the Conservators of the Chamber, as above.

CHAPTER II.

The solemn induction of either body into the city Luxemburgian.

[9] Moreover, the message from Rome received, about the given to us D. Chrysanthus's body, The body of S. Chrysanthus brought to Luxemburg, one of all the desire was, that as most maturely the sacred that pledge to us be brought. But not before the departure from the city of John Lepessier, the Provost of the Province, to be brought anything could. Nay now he having returned into the province, then at last by the maritime way through the Batavi, D. Chrysanthus's body with the other of the Saints bodies, to Brussels held. Thence the year ending, by John Rutius, once of this College Rector, who then to the Most Excellent man John Beck, of the royal militia in Belgium Prefect & of our Province Governor, to us returning a companion was, in the very Beck's carriage, was brought. And since under the coming of the Governor into the province, the comitia of the Estates into this city, by the old institute, had been indicted; desired many, that of that assembly with the celebrity to be proposed with greater honor the sacred bodies we should use. But the time's straits did not allow those things, which for the pomp were needed, to prepare. Dissolved then the Estates' assembly, the year 1647 arising, to send to Treves it pleased, by the Elector of Treves was sent his Vicar the Bp. of Azotus, who from the Vicar Bishop the bodies after the custom to be approved should ask. Sent by the Rector we were Gaspar Nidromius & I, Priests, with letters to Otho Senheimius the Bishop of Azotus. But asked the Rector, that, if convenient to him not it were through these warlike times hither himself to betake, to some of this city man chief, or Abbot, or Priest, the business he should give that in his name the sacred remains he might examine. He indeed since he was of a notable mind toward this College, denied, that as much as he might wish, could he the Prince of Treves unconsulted anything determine: & the author was, that by a written little book, the matter to the Prince we should refer. I wrote the little book, & offered it with the Roman letters. Which when the Prince read, us with the Azotus Bishop to the court he called. Admitted to the conclave, & ordered to sit, with a discourse well long he received us. The sum was, to have read he the little book & the bullated letters ours: all things proven & sincere to be. To congratulate himself this College of so great a price a treasure. But indeed, himself of himself to Luxemburg about to come, & before the sacred remains about to approve to have been, if either health, or the times, for the journey opportune were. Now about to send his Vicar Bishop, as soon as convenient to us & grateful would be it. Dismissed then very kindly & having set out from Treves, what matter by us had been done to the Rector we set forth, rejoicing so propitious toward us of mind to be the Prince.

[10] The remaining then deliberation ours was, in what most time the sacred bodies by the Azotus Bishop before to be approved & solemnly to be brought forth we should take care? There were, to whom the winter dry, & from the air's inclemency unpleasant, less to gladness & pomp to make seemed; & more grateful would have been, that into the next spring, when laughs & flowers the year, the triumph should be brought forth. But the people impatient of delay, & with religion kindled of all the minds, the matter longer to be deferred did not allow. And indeed since nearly under spring arms all confound things, & cares other in these calamitous times, in the year 1647 the 18th of February. than about gladness, to bring are wont: decreed it was, that at the very first time, the Azotus Bishop called, the sacred pledges into public should be brought forth. A day for that matter seemed most accommodated the Sunday of Sexagesima, which they call. Meanwhile with great everywhere zeal nearly whole six weeks all things into that day to be prepared began. At length under the day fourteenth of February, the Minister of the College to Treves is sent away, that the Azotus Bishop coming through honor he might lead. Came to Luxemburg the Bishop with the eximious man Mathias Clenschius on the eighteenth day of February. The next day in the morning, the sacred bodies after the solemn manner about to approve, the reliquaries he opened. Were present the Rector of the College, Francis Steelius; Mathias Clenschius; John Trignierius, the Prior of the Dominicans; Lucas Neunheuserus, of the nuns of Mary Valley not far from Luxemburg the President; Vernerus Paludanus, of the order of D. Dominic; Christopher Wilthemius, the Minister of the College; & our Priests five; the most illustrious likewise man John Strengius, of the Senate Royal the Scribe; & a man noble Charles Dalscheidtus. Brought forth the Rector the Roman tablets, & from the Bishop earnestly asked, that from those tablets' faith, to DD. the Martyrs Tertullinus & Chrysanthus public honors, by his authority, he should decree. him & S. Tertullinus's body he recognizes: The Bishop immediately assented, the reliquaries opened. Then on his knees fallen, the sacred bodies duly venerated, & a prayer said, the Saints Tertullinus & Chrysanthus the Martyrs, with the rest who were present, invoked. Finally, honor public to the holy Martyrs he decreed, & on the next Sunday the elevation of the sacred bodies indicted: about which matters afterward John Strengius the Scribe tablets made.

[11] Moreover Mathias Clenschius, when these all things so to be done he saw, with great into his mind coming joy to God & the Saints & to this College with most glad words congratulated; & happy himself proclaimed, that that day he had attained, in which Saint Tertullinus, whose sacred bones he himself once at Rome having obtained to his fatherland had transmitted, & whose public cult so many now years with the greatest desire he had awaited, deserved honors, with Saint Chrysanthus, at length at some time to have obtained he perceived. After these things, sealed again the reliquaries; before however the skulls of the Saints taken out, & a tooth of Saint Tertullinus, that there might be, by which

by touch & kisses pious men to their religion might satisfy. Proper then by our men conceived formulas were, that either from the suburban little church of the Holy Consoler, by which the Priests to God & the holy Martyrs Tertullinus & Chrysanthus the Sacrifice should offer; which formulas the Bishop of Azotus ratified held. Printed also by the press, & divided among the people little prayers to our Saints. Meanwhile incredible to say, what of all was the whole city's expectation, what of all the Estates the zeal, that the holy Martyrs, with how greatest they could honor, into public be brought forth. The day before that day, into which had been indicted the triumph, the bodies sacred on a carriage placed, nor with other apparatus, than that two Priests of ours sat by, to the little church of the Holy Virgin Consoler of the afflicted, which nearest to the walls our College has, toward evening brought, whence the next day with a festive rite into the city they should be brought. Under the hour then sixth of the same day everywhere through the whole city in all the temples, the bronze bells sounded. But the night in prayers all-vigilant, at the church of the Holy Consoler, two of ours passed.

[12] Dawned at length the longed-for & happy to this city day. And what by the Saints' benignity to have been done you would believe, since the day before & some before days sad had been & cloudy the sky's state, & repeatedly also the greatest poured rains the earth had soaked; the sky serene then suddenly with a gentle frost bound the soil & with snow covered, a most easy journey for the supplication made. Brought back into mind to me that snow that golden dust, the gilded called, with which the Romans, entering first into the city or triumphing Caesars, the way they strewed. And so also the triumphal way of our Martyrs God, with a heavenly as it were silvery dust, to have covered seemed was. But of the supplication the order & manner this was. Under the hour nearly eighth morning, our men from the house to the church of the Holy Consoler through the city processed. The first band, with banners & wax-candles shining, held the youth of our gymnasium. & with notable pomp, Next other youths received laureled, into soldiers' form clothed, with one hand a sword, with the other a palm bearing, who the cohort of the Theban Martyrs of Treves, with Thyrsus their leader, represented. An image that was, of the Treves Martyrs, whose very many bones in our temple situated are, to the new two companion Martyrs, Tertullinus & Chrysanthus, as it were to meet going. After the cohort Theban, a choir walked of heavenly geniuses, so that to one, a silver vessel with a brazier carrying, two on either side from incense-boxes likewise silver, of most grateful odor the incense, alternately supplied. At length the Priests some of ours with the Rector closed the band, linen-clad all & with the people following. In this order came to D. Consoler's; where the reliquaries, on either Saint's biers fitted, & the heads of the same Saints, a table with a silken carpet spread, before the greatest altar supported. Were the reliquaries with a silken cloth shorn purple everywhere covered, with a silver edge, with dense & frequent strokes into various of flowers & spirals images going around. On the fronts two of either reliquary, on the biers handsomely adorned in solid silver of two-ounce letters written it was, at the bones of D. Tertullinus: The Body. Of D. Tertullinus. The Martyr. at the bones of D. Chrysanthus: The Body. Of D. Chrysanthus. The Martyr. Above on the comb-shaped roof of the reliquaries, placed were of gold crowns, with pearls distinguished. The heads of the Saints, with red likewise silken shorn cloth, except where the forehead to be beheld & to be kissed offered could be, clothed, on purple silken cushions lay. Of these the adornment, adventitious indeed & temporary, nor it much or great, golden however & gemmed, a thousand gold coins was esteemed. The cost of the reliquaries, & it itself of eximious price, the religious of pious men largesse had supplied.

[13] The Rector, after from his knees venerated the sacred remains he had, it is carried toward the city: a prayer duly applied. Then to the biers, on which the Saints' bodies were, four Priests of ours shouldered. Before the Saints, to each his own head carried in front. The head of D. Tertullinus, the Rector; of D. Chrysanthus, the Minister carried; in the middle each between two of ours, who linen-clad torches carrying went. And while through the crowded multitude one proceeds, even then everywhere to rush you would perceive, who prayer little beads, some to the reliquaries, others to the heads, through religion would apply. Before the threshold of the chapel, carrying two from fine linen canopies the reliquaries received, shining around about forty some torches, of which some the Priests of our College, others the chief men of the City Magistrate, bore. Then our youth, in which order it had come, to the city held, a song festive bringing forth, nowhere intermitted the chant. In the last band, after the biers, went an immense of men force. Thus to the walls of the city it was advanced. At the gate stood in arms a cohort of citizens: another cohort of soldiers within the city at the gate armed had stood. When now within the walls received were the sacred bodies, placed were each in its platform, for that in a square raised. Here the Azotus Bishop, & it received by another greater pomp gone forth to meet with mitre distinguished & with the rest Pontifical vestment adorned, from our temple gone forth was present, the sacred bodies about to receive, going before all of the whole city the religious families & the Clergy. When now the Bishop the Saints' bodies touched, incense to them he burned. Then prayers having prayed, that propitious to the walls & city ours to be received themselves they would allow, & seats here willing they would take; to the bier of D. Tertullinus, with the eximious man Clenschius, his shoulders he put under. D. Chrysanthus bore Henry Saynenius, the Abbot of Münster, with Pontifical vestment distinguished & with a mitre veiled, with Lord Keurcherius the Dean & Parish-priest of Arlon. After these things, the two, which to themselves had met of those supplicating orders, into one thus were welded. In the first place the banners were of all the city's parochial temples; behind went our youth, a song singing & wax-candles white carrying in front. Next was of the Capuchins the place: but because almost all to Liège having gone, there the supreme of their Order Provost from Italy coming they had visited, two only Priests, the Custodian & a companion another were present, that even so to the common congratulation they should not be wanting, & their toward us mind testify. They to the Recollects joined themselves. Followed the order of D. Dominic: thereafter the Clergy, much than ever nearly at other times more numerous & frequent, following Theodore Sandtius, the Dean of Luxemburg & Parish-priest at D. Nicolas. Followed a Priest Teutonic in his custom's garment. Thereafter proceeded the Benedictines: then of the Theban Martyrs of Treves the cohort. Of the geniuses then heavenly the choir, with odors most exquisite all things filled. Next walked of the City tribes the Corporated, wax-candles of weight ten pounds, which in royal funerals & supplications greatest to be kindled the custom is, carrying. The torch-bearers crowded these received, among whom the pleaders & chief men, who with the Pontiff had come, processed.

[14] Went then Priests some of ours linen-clad, these words repeatedly with clear & raised voice pronouncing: with a pious & proper invocation With pleasantness you will go forth, & with joy you will be led. For both the mountains & the hills will leap, awaiting with joy. Alleluia. Rise Saints of God from your mansions: the places sanctify, the people bless, & us men sinners in peace guard. Walk Saints of God to the place predestined, which for you is prepared, & us men sinners in peace guard. Moved those words wonderfully the minds, so that from our Senate men chief them then for themselves to be written demanded. Around the sacred bodies & their skulls, the axe-bearers twenty the sides crowded, who the crowd would remove. To D. Chrysanthus & his head, two of our Colleagues linen-clad incense perpetual, with thuribles silver, gradually through intervals stepping back, poured: likewise two others to D. Tertullinus following behind. Next to the sacred bodies, proceeded our most ample Senate ours, going before after the custom the Lictors. After them the honored & the pleaders & the City Magistrate with their Lictors. & with military applause Of mixed then sex so great a multitude, as great as in a city not greatest to dwell could be, scarcely you would believe. Although had increased the crowd many from the neighboring both towns, & villages, whom the pomp's report & the Saints' veneration had attracted, far even more about to be, if the bordering enemy, never not through the field plundering & wandering, a safe to those coming journey had afforded. And so also from the equestrian Order of this Province many, & the Abbots of Epternac & of the Golden-Valley, & other chief men, although invited, not of their own accord, but of the enemies for fear, were missed. When first from the walls withdrew the pomp, then resounded the whole city with the bronze bell's stroke. But by which pomp it went, disposed through the streets on either side soldiery with the Centurions, in a continuous order stood. To these all arms & another as much as possible festive vesture. At the first crossroads, two squadrons of horse, of the stipendiaries one, the other of the volunteers, the left side held, which, with discharged at one moment little bombards, to the supplication applauded. Nor much after, of the engines chariot-borne the festive crash from the walls to be heard, mixedly of the bombards the sound the soldiers from behind made. And now the journey for a fourth nearly part was accomplished, when the sacred bodies in a platform placed, it is carried to the temple of the Society. the Pontiff with incense & a prayer solemn venerated. Then others, who the biers should carry, into the place of the first succeeded. So the second, so the third station was made, the Pontiff meanwhile & the Abbot of Münster the heads of the Saints bearing. The head of D. Tertullinus carried by the Bishop; of D. Chrysanthus, by the Abbot. At the second moreover station shouldered D. Tertullinus, the Rector & the Custodian of the Recollects; D. Chrysanthus, the Custodian of the Capuchins & the Prior of the Dominicans. At the third station, D. Tertullinus the Fathers two of the order of Saint Dominic received; D. Chrysanthus, two of the Fathers Benedictine. Finally they brought into our church the Saints, Tertullinus the Bishop with Clenschius, Chrysanthus the Münster Abbot with Keurcherius. But before the temple the pomp should enter, at the last of the streets parting, not far from our house to the left, two squadrons of horse, in what manner before to have been done we said, with little bombards applause gave. To the right, before our house, the citizens in a square band stood, who, after the temple's threshold the pomp entered, with discharged bombards repeatedly a crash greatest made.

CHAPTER III.

The temple's adornment, the sacred things performed, the benefits obtained.

[15] But the temple's face interior that was, which in these warlike times most prepared & most glad to be could. Among the tablets from either side of the temple disposed, The walls in places with gilded, in places with figured tapestries veiled. To these, through opportune spaces, tablets painted & with little poems inscribed, a grateful to those perceiving spectacle afforded. That was by the youth of our gymnasium upon the holy Martyrs conferred honor. Through every third intervals from either side of the temple, tablets greater fixed were, with appended around every single greater tablet four others smaller. You would say the very tablets among themselves to contend, whether the art in the painting, or in the painting's argument, greater were? The arguments moreover the several to pursue, long it would be. The chief certain to set forth, worth the trouble it will be. First, on the more capacious tablet, of the work whole the title to the honor of the holy Martyrs dedicated was, with these quarter-foot letters:

To DD. the Martyrs. Tertullinus. and Chrysanthus. Victors Triumphers. eminent the whole matter's title, Defenders. Preservers. Peace-bringers. The Youth. Of the Gymnasium of the Society. Of Jesus. Of Luxemburg.

D. N. M. Q. E. E. L. M. P.

In the Year. Of the Lord 1647. VI. of the Kalends of March. Devoted to their name & majesty willingly deservedly placed it. The Saints. On That. Day. Into the City. Received.

[16] Now on the greater tablets, in one place Luxemburg in the habit of a Nymph turreted, on a stone squared, with crossed arms, between palms twin in tranquil in leisure sat, with an explanation obvious. The Province namely, under the shade of the Victor Martyrs Tertullinus & Chrysanthus, secure hereafter & safe to be about to be. In another place in a stirred with waves sea, a ship was tossed, others then a protection for the city thence to be about to be ominated, to which on the prow, for protection, painted were the insignia Luxemburgian, with inscribed of the Saints Tertullinus & Chrysanthus the names. Hence cast down from the clouds fires, hence storms of leaping waves to the ship destruction threatened. But Castor & Pollux, auspicious fires, the horns of the yard-arm licking, safety & a safe arrival pledged. An omen that was, the City Luxemburg, although from above the angers incumbent heavenly, although beneath the furious nether-world, on every side with the most wretched of this time calamities it was pressed, by the aid however of the Saints Tertullinus & Chrysanthus, safe & unhurt about to escape. And, that you might understand, the same Saints, to the Luxemburgians hereafter for household gods, far indeed than those profane & sacrilegious more favoring, about to be, brought back another tablet two of the household Gods images, with pure spears & shields, with which the insignia Luxemburgian, defending in the manner, they covered. The same nearly of security omens with a various argument the smaller tablets caught at. In one place with falling from heaven sacred shields, inscribed it was: A protection from the Stars. In another place hands two, drawn brandishing swords, a title had: Who against? And, what the hope was, how toward us prone & benevolent about to be were the Saints, so toward enemies hostile & terrible about to be; another tablet brought back the Aegis of Pallas with the face of Medusa, & a helmet, on whose top cone, To enemies that terror. Finally, if so many omens of things to come goods should deceive (which to fear impious it would be) even in the midst of war's tumult, & among the very arms, peace to their clients, the Two men of peace to be given, our Martyrs, about to procure, another tablet portended. Painted there was a Helmet, into which, as into a hive, twin bees entered. Was inscribed: Even here places of peace they will have. These the chief of one of the sides of the temple emblems.

[17] On the other part, & in art & in appearance, equal all were. others the finding of S. Chrysanthus Brought back tablet one greater two stony open tombs, which time with a torch illuminated: whence with rebounded light born rays, & into death brandished, that reaper fatal of human life put to flight. Of the Immortality of the holy Martyrs that was the argument. Another greater tablet, a tomb likewise stony open showed forth, & germinating from the tomb Chrysocome, which standing-by Luxemburg to be plucked showed. Properly that tablet D. Chrysanthus pertained, because Chrysocome all of D. Chrysanthus, both the name & the thing to have it seems. For Chrysocome, says Pliny, is a herb, which by another name Chrysitis is called, with downy with the splendor of gold corymbs, with a root black, from austere sweet in stony & shady places born; plainly, just as D. Chrysanthus, from an ignoble & despised among the Heathen of Death kind, a shining Christ's Martyr: from the torments' bitterness, blessed & happy: from the darknesses & stony hiding-places of the cemetery of Callistus, into a clear led-out triumph. Near this tablet, in another smaller, a vessel open, to the appearance of a casket, an odor exhaled, with inscribed this title: To have been opened it delights. A symbol that was of the sepulchre of D. Chrysanthus, which opened, than every odorous medicament more grateful to us emitted. In another place, to a golden flower of a phial crystalline placed & flourishing, were read these letters: After death surviving. or S. Tertullinus's victory expressed, D. Chrysanthus this also tablet signified, of death the victor. A tablet one greater to D. Tertullinus properly sacred, a stadium had expressed, & in it a stadium-runner with a strained course to the goals flying down. On the goals engraved was the monogram of Christ: in the middle moreover of the stadium, a vessel (whether it an urn, or a disk, or by what other name to call you prefer) placed on a table, a date-branch or of the palm a branch, the Victor's reward showed forth. On the vessel inscribed the Greek word ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑ. Signified those things, Tertullinus for Christ contending, & a true Olympic-victor, gifted with a heavenly palm, whose form at his sepulchre found, before we mentioned. In another narrower tablet, which also to D. Tertullinus placed was, painted you would perceive a stony tomb, with engraved of Christ the monogram, & a hand with a sponge to delete attempting what was engraved. An added title: An adornment indelible. Finally, to the Lamp, which found around D. Tertullinus's sepulchre, alluded another tablet of the smaller, in which a lamp, burning, & distinguished with Christ's monogram, poured around on every side had a most dense darkness, with this added epigraph: Sooner it will perish than it lie hidden. Namely the Poet's mind was: Tertullinus death rather & all deadly things to have suffered, than not he should be Christ's public Confessor & Martyr. These, hitherto the chief, our youth from the walls of the temple had hung.

[18] But before all things turned to itself the eyes the arch triumphal, in the middle nearly of the temple's region placed. A form to it was square, to the likeness of Janus. It rose to fifty & more feet, in the middle in the temple raised an arch a work indeed of timber, but to the appearance of various marble with colors covered, so that with a recent care true marble to shine you would say. The manner of the work from Doric & Ionic mixed, since which strong men & unconquered Martyrs befitted. On the four pedestals placed pillars, in themselves the architrave & the frieze, in the manner of a Janus four-sided with the abacus by mutules supported, & the cornice received. Through the cornice disposed on every side of little columns a continuous order, & it by angular pedestals smaller closed, of a square podium the appearance. The beam highest of the podium, with wax-candles, in number of the little columns equal, distinguished shone. On the pedestals angular placed were obelisks, as great as the symmetry placed allowed. But in the middle of the podium, an immense pedestal, an obelisk on four spheres resting supported, & it itself very great, & of Parian marble with the whiteness gleaming. At the four of the pedestal great sides, palms two green crosswise affixed; above which garlands greater, with various flowers woven, with cords with gold & fine linen twisted, appended were. On the several garlands the several of Christ monograms of a color Punic. Likewise appended were to every single one of the great obelisk's side alternate palms crosswise & crowns, with Christ's monograms, from the bottom upward decreasing with the obelisk of the crowns the greatness. Of the Janus moreover the ceiling purple & with gold starred, appended had eight veils, from purple likewise fine linen: of which two, from every single side of the Janus, thus in the middle were separated, that with a modest fold on either side receding & through the lowest edges to the pillars gathered, there with cords of fine linen with gold interwoven they were held, a form to those beholding far most pleasant. Where the veils were separated, there fruit-clusters with gold leaf-covered, & under the fruit-clusters a silver hung lamp; except that on the front of the Janus, by which by those entering first it was perceived, in the place of the fruit-clusters, affixed was of excellent work a tablet, with these letters.

To DD. the Martyrs. Tertullinus. and. Chrysanthus. Sacred.

From this tablet, a lamp was let down of solid gold.

[19] under this Janus a temporary altar, But under the Janus a temporary altar to the holy Martyrs raised, a silver cross, at two thousand coins florin esteemed, & candlesticks likewise silver four supported. The veil which the altar's front covered, a cloth was Attalic, foreign, of great price, with drawn around through the base of the veil an edge golden of Phrygian most elegant & costly work. On that altar, as soon as thither came of the sacred biers the bearers, they deposited the Saints' bodies, to the right Tertullinus, to the left Chrysanthus, with added to each his own skull & a cross standing in the middle. There therefore our Saints, on which placed the sacred bodies: after the manner of the old Emperors, as in a consistory sat: not within veils however, which not without an ambitious of the admissions mastership by those, who the sacred of the Caesars addresses sought, were penetrated; but the veils drawn back, open on every side & lying open to of the suppliants the vows. After when the sacred bodies on the altar duly placed were, a choir of musicians an Antiphon with a festive voice having begun, thus sang together: The Saints shall exult in glory, they shall rejoice in their beds. Stood among these things before the altar the Bishop, & to the holy Martyrs incense poured; whom then into words going before, the school of cantors of the royal Seer the Psalm, Sing to the Lord a song new, performed, & the Antiphon before sung repeated. Then the Pontiff, a prayer said, a vesture for the Sacrifice apt took: & on the altar of the holy Martyrs, with those formulas, which before was said to the holy Martyrs proper to have been conceived, made. The Deacon's office discharged Keurcherius, the Subdeacon's Clenschius. before which is made a solemn Mass But was of the people a force so great, that the temple, although spacious, scarcely holding the multitude, not few, who the crowded & dense crowd to bear could not, the seats extreme of the temple occupied, & there standing at the Divine matter were present. Under the Mass middle, a Priest one of ours to the people spoke. When an end of speaking he made, the sacrifice was completed.

[20] this received a religious banquet, at which to the Bishop, After all things just to the Saints' honor in the temple were paid, a banquet frugal afforded it was in the dining-hall ours to the Azotus Bishop & of the religious families of this city the Presidents & to the Senate & of the first order to the Honored. At the last course, the youth of our gymnasium to the Azotus Bishop, with a brief little poem, in the College's name thanks gave. The Bishop thus answered, that to rejoice himself he said, given to himself to have been in this public of the Saints cult a place, by which a specimen some of his toward us & our Order mind he might publish. Nor hereafter himself to be wanting, but that the same mind, when the matter it should require, much even more abundantly to testify he would continue. Then also another little poem eucharistic to the Senate spoken. Here the man most ample Henry Mathelinus, in the Colleagues' name, with most honorable words complained, to be snatched the office to the Senate his. to the Senate But indeed by the Senate thanks to our Order & to God much greatest to be paid it behooved, that to the City & Fatherland the Saints as Patrons we had given. To hope indeed, by our this benefit it to be about to be, that to the Saints Tertullinus & Chrysanthus as helpers & defenders, the Senate & Fatherland, in peace & war a protection eternal would have. Finally to Mathias Clenschius with a not inelegant poem applause was made. The argument to the poem received was from Saint Mathias the Apostle's memory, which on that day with the yearly rite we renewed. For because Mathias Clenschius, who to this College the body of D. Tertullinus once had given, & to Mathias Clenschius, of one body the donor, thanks given: it now with his own shoulders to our temple had brought, & of this triumph Tertullinian a part himself not the least had been; & because these all things into the sacred to Saint Mathias day fell; what to be other, than a lot some & as it were a deed some divine? Rightly therefore & now with a double title, on this light, to Saint Mathias sacred, to be said that could: The lot fell upon Mathias. Followed suddenly an acclamation of the guests, all to Clenschius congratulating. He, having confessed I know not what secret of God's counsel in these things himself to perceive, as if on every side caught,

all things to do began, now the guests applauding, now the Rector & our Colleagues, now the youths addressing. At length the Senate with the Rector acted, that for our youth there should be of one day from school a vacation, & this was obtained.

[21] then began to be offered votive wax-candles, by boys The tables then removed, soon was returned to the honor to the holy Martyrs in the temple to be held. Before the evening psalmody's beginning was made, begun now were wax-candles before the Saints' bodies to be set. The first placed of wax virgin, which in the supplication morning he had carried before, the youth of our gymnasium; whence the whole eight-day-period a perennial light before the altar of the Martyrs was. After their own also wax-candles bore from the schools trivial girls, a rhythm reciting their fatherland's. Many in a more noble vesture preeminent, whatever precious from the of the women adornment of almost all of the whole city of the matrons & virgins could be conferred, into adornment had converted. A thing, in a slight although age, magnificent truly & superb! Then it appeared Luxemburg more in caskets & chests, than in external vesture, to have of luxury. After this of the girls choir wax-candles two greater at the altar of the Martyrs with an immense of men concourse dedicated, & by girls. received at length the Psalms Vespertine. Which accomplished, a Priest one of ours to an assembly very numerous spoke. The Bishop then of Azotus mitred, the Ambrosian hymn, standing before the altar of the Martyrs, intoned, the school of cantors the rest performing, & at length the sacred Body of Christ in a reliquary after the manner of the elders holding forth, the people duly blessed. & a boy of walking deprived is healed. Thus of that day to the gladness the height with the congratulation of all an end was imposed. Nor was wanting, what for an argument might be, to have been grateful to God & the Saints of that day so many honors. A prodigy that to call I would not dare: but certainly of a miracle to have had the appearance, confidently I would say. A woman of honest condition, when her son a youth from our gymnasium, of the knees a most sharp pain, now from six nearly weeks increasing, at length from walking prohibited; not with a maternal more than a religious mind, with the Martyrs help, which human remedies had denied, to seek she set herself. Her son therefore having consoled, she ordered him well to hope. All things herself about to do, by which about the holy Martyrs, something, whatever it were, to obtain she could, by whose contact, the affected badly knees might be cured. Snow, as before I related, all things had covered. Found however a matron certain chief under the very wintry snow a greenness, with which a sacred way's part before her house she strewed. Thence leaves few she carried to the residing within the domestic walls son the pious mother. He meanwhile, absent his mother, when before the house the pomp went, partly with the hope of health from the Martyrs to be obtained, partly with the desire the sacred remains in their triumph of beholding, on a staff leaning, what long he had not been able, to the threshold even of the house with difficulty had crept. Now, after returned his mother the leaves salutary to his leggings sewed, thence to be diminished the pain, & before the day's evening utterly to subside, & he himself now conveniently to walk to be able.

[22] This of the things on the first day done series. The next day began now to be hung up votive offerings of wax to the reliquaries of the Martyrs, the next day began to be frequented votive sacrifices, to which afterward others upon others were added. The Mass on that day at the altar of the Martyrs with the solemn manner made Dominicus Keurcherius the Dean & Parish-priest of Arlon: Priests also others from the Clergy there sacrificed, both this & on the following days. This also day a Mass of nine days the Consul of this city, with a grave disease lying, by a vow undertook. Vowed also others to the holy Martyrs of nine-day Masses vows, among whom a Senator one. On the same day the Magistrate urban, whose in honoring the Martyrs notable zeal had shone, in our dining-hall was received. Under the hour fifth evening litanies of the Mother great were sung; which also the whole eight-day-period was kept. From this day, & the reliquaries piously to be gone around began the people pious, & also the honored, to offer to the Priests prayer little beads, that to the reliquaries they might be applied. Then also many everywhere, with no of order or sex or age distinction, around the altar of the Martyrs going, the Saints with the old & from the elders received rite, surveyed, which ceremony thence into many months was repeated. Were also chief men & matrons, who the Martyrs' sacred heads to be kissed to themselves to be given asked, which both to them & to the rest then the same demanding the whole eight-day-period was granted. On the third day, under the Mass more prepared, the Sodality of the Holy Virgin into the heavens assumed (there are in that sodality the Poets & Rhetors of our gymnasium) a wax-candle greater to the holy Martyrs, with applied a poem with a title, placed. Their example having followed the Sodality of the same Virgin without stain conceived (these are the Grammarians) a wax-candle with a similar rite on the sixth day kindled. Daily moreover a sacrifice one more solemn, besides the other accustomed, at the holy Martyrs' altar was made. The day eighth completed, on which both solemnly was done the Divine matter, & was spoken before an assembly, since from the city & field never were wanting who the Saints should venerate; it pleased their reliquaries by no means from the place to move, but publicly to those venerating exposed, in the middle of the church to leave.

[23] The Bishop moreover of Azotus, that the religion of the people once kindled in perpetuity he might nourish, were constituted also Indulgences for those honoring, having given a pardon of crimes of forty days to those, who before the relics of the holy Martyrs three times the prayer of the Lord & the salutation Angelic should recite, thus that of the matter into tablets referred: Otho, by God's & of the Apostolic See grace Bishop of Azotus, of the Most Eminent & Most Reverend of Treves the Archbishop in Pontificals & spirituals Vicar general, to all of Christ the faithful, these present letters about to see, greeting in the Lord everlasting. While the lofty merits, by which the holy Martyrs in the house of God shine forth, with a devout consideration with us we revolve, worthy we judge, that their sacred relics, with a special always honor held in the Church of God, with gracious of remissions gifts & of indulgences offices we should adorn. Wherefore of almighty God's mercy & of the blessed Peter & Paul His Apostles' authority confident, to all & each of either sex of Christ the faithful, who before the sacred bodies of the holy Martyrs Tertullinus & Chrysanthus, at whose translation with Archiepiscopal authority we were present, & which now rest in the temple of the College of the Society of Jesus of the town Luxemburgian of the Diocese of Treves, for the holy Mother Church's exaltation, of heresies the extirpation, & of the Christian Princes the concord, three times the prayer of the Lord & as many times the salutation Angelic, devoutly shall recite, on whatsoever day they shall do it, of forty days an indulgence, perpetually in the future to be valid, in the form of the Church accustomed, by the tenor of these presents mercifully in the Lord we grant & impart. Given at Luxemburg on the VII of March of the year 1647. Brother Otho, Bishop of Azotus.

[24] On the same nearly days, on which these were written tablets, through the religious all families, which in the public supplication had processed, was sent by the Rector a largesse, are cured, a heart's pain, as much as through the family affairs' straits in these needy times to be sent honorably could. Repeatedly a noble matron, Anna Maria Crœfia, wife once of the noble & strenuous man Sebastian a Baur, of the cohort Germanic the Prefect, of Everling the Toparch, when from a pain of the heart sick seven nearly very days she had lain, & for death now herself prepared; at the same time of our Martyrs mindful she was, at the same time the hope of their help she conceived; & soon a vow to the Saints having vowed, suddenly she recovered. Therefore condemned of the vow, likenesses two of a heart of wax virgin to the reliquaries of the Martyrs to be hung up sent. A woman upright, & nearly above her sex prudent, a citizen ours, a feet's infirmity, when from affected feet sick six very weeks she had lain, & of the physicians the help in vain having tried, to stand & to lean on her feet she could not; our holy Martyrs, at whose recent triumph herself to have been able to be present she vehemently grieved, invoked. Thence better she had, & soon to the holy Martyrs grateful came. Nor that to be omitted, the Most Excellent man John Beck, of this Province Rector & of the militia of the King supreme in Belgium Prefect, when lately hither from Brussels of great matters for the cause he was running, to the holy Martyrs to have come, & them suppliantly to have venerated. After these things the most illustrious Prince Fortunatus Hermannus, the Margrave of Baden, with his most illustrious Wife, to the Martyrs honor gave, & with going before manner went. a fever-stricken & contracted one, A woman honest a certain, when her son six years old, by a fever seized, & besides with so great of the legs a pain from a three-day of the nerves contraction & a perpetual spasm was tortured, that nor the legs to extend, nor the body to raise he could; our Martyrs' help, on her knees before the bed of the boy leaning, implored: & vowed, two herself of wax legs to their reliquaries to be about to hang, if the boy should recover. Scarcely the vow vowed, the legs extended the boy, crying out: Those me Saints, whom you invoked, mother, have cured. Come now thanks to them, a woman of the womb laboring. as is fitting, give. The next day the woman with her little son sound was present, & the votive offerings, which she had vowed, to the Martyrs set. Of a pleader a certain chief the wife, when with pains of the womb so vehement she was tortured, that to be died by herself she thought, the holy Martyrs suppliantly invoked. Began soon the pain's attack gradually to languish: after the fourth of an hour part, sleep her breathing-again from those highest tortures invaded, & for twelve hours lulled held: awaking then the best matron, thoroughly-healed herself she felt: afterward of the benefit received mindful, to the Martyrs a bulla silver with a title of their names she hung up. But as often as by the womb's pains, which thereafter lighter became, to be tried herself she perceived, the Martyrs invoked forthwith better she has.

[25] Came meanwhile the day, on which the reliquaries to be laid up it behooved. The reliquaries into the place prepared for them are replaced We were renewing then by chance the Communion general, which they call, on the third of the month a Sunday day. Prepared were above the greatest altar of the temple little chests two, inscribed with the holy Martyrs' names & Christ's monograms. In the evening under the hour fifth, after to the people numerous had been spoken at length, was held by ours a supplication, & it was processed from the greatest altar, to the altar of the Martyrs which was in the temple's middle. Our Priests linen-clad, with torches went before: followed the Rector in a cope with ministers. A prayer said before the Martyrs' reliquaries & incense burned, our Priests by twos, to the several biers shoulders put under: & with a great of the people following crowd, with a festive meanwhile resounding chant, having led through the temple's sides a longer circuit, to the greatest altar they processed, & there the reliquaries, in its each repository placed. These things in the month of July of the year one thousand six hundred forty-seventh done were. [& for the Translation to be recalled is designated the 4th Sunday after Pascha.] Nor ceased from that day through intervals some wax-candles to kindle, others votive sacred things to the holy Martyrs to procure. To many also was afforded water, the holy Martyrs invoked, & immersed their Relics, against diseases consecrated. But because translated first the holy bodies were then when the winter to rage most is wont, & when to the squalor of the fast spring sacred matters after Septuagesima incline; obtained it was from the Azotus Bishop, that on the fourth every Sunday day after Pascha, the annual of the Translation solemnity, through an eight-day-period a prolonged celebrity, to renew it might be lawful: to which matter in the spring next of this year one thousand six hundred forty-eighth a beginning we will give.

* Book 21. ch. 8.

ON SS. SABINUS AND CERTESIUS,

ROMAN MARTYRS TRANSLATED INTO CASTILE.

Sabinus, Roman Martyr, near Pastrana in Castile (St.)

Certesius, Roman Martyr, near Pastrana in Castile (St.)

Contemplation & solitude always have been the end & spirit of the Order of the Carmelites: Of the Eremitic among the Discalced convents & therefore from its origin, cenobia in deserts & places from the cities' tumult removed founded were even to Innocent IV's times, who them in the very cities (that their Religious together with the rest of the Mendicants to the neighbors' salvation their work to expend they could) to found kindly granted. But the Order being reformed by the great heroine & Seraphic mother Teresa, the firstborn of so great a Parent sons, that the primitive spirit might revive & be fostered in the restored Carmel, determined, that in every single province one Convent should be eremitic in the midst of the woods, rocks among & caves built, the form, after the manner of the Lauras, once by SS. Sabas, Euthymius & others in Palestine constructed, whose circuit by a wall enclosed to one or another league & more should be extended; in whose middle a convent with a church, the little cells from each other by a little garden separated, as in the Carthusians' cenobia is seen: but besides those little cells, a convent in the Church's circuit, with a refectory, kitchen & other workshops necessary forming; other are built little cells with little chapels, here & there among the grove's shades, in valleys or on rocks pathless, within however the wall's circuit, to which in the time of Lent, the discipline, of Advent, & at other more holy of the year times some from the convent withdraw, there for God alone about to be free, & on vegetables alone, & other of the earth fruits raw or cooked, or with oil or vinegar macerated, the whole of that retreat time about to live: which completed to the conventual cells they return. This moreover in convent much than in other convents more rigorously is lived. No have there the Religious acts common, besides the choir's & refectory's: the rest of the time to contemplation & psalmody in the church they are free; or to the hands' labor in the little cells. A perpetual there silence is kept. To this Convent none are sent, except who shall have asked, & it with repeated prayers shall have obtained: nor it to the younger easily is granted, but everywhere to preachers, confessors, & others in external of charity toward the neighbor works continually occupied, that the spirit strength may take, & to their own progress may be free; completed there a year, to the intermitted of this recollection for the grace charity works about to return stronger & more fervent.

[2] & the origin. Of these eremitic convents in the Teresian Carmel the institutor was, together with the VV. PP. Alphonso of Jesus Mary & Bartholomew of S. Basil, V. P. Thomas of Jesus a Spaniard, of the Carmelites Discalced in Belgium the founder; where also a convent eremitic of S. Joseph, in the wood of Marlanne near Namur, by the Most Serene of the Belgians Princes Austrian, Albert & Isabella, Philip III of the Spains King consenting & approving, Of these the first of Bolarque so called. to be founded took care in the year 1619. But the first of this kind of eremitic institute convent he founded in Castile new at the Tagus, not far from the City of Pastrana, in the wood & mountains of Bolarque, from which this Convent a name received, & commonly is called the Eremus of Bolarque: in which of the eremitic life the exercises to be done began in the year 1592 on the day XVI of August, in a little oratory of trees' branches constructed under the invocation of S. John the Baptist. The Angelic life, which there by the Hermit-dwellers Carmelites Discalced was led, so all, either who it before their eyes beheld, or absent by others' report with their ears received, to devotion toward the said hermitage kindled, that everywhere Kings & Princes, both secular & ecclesiastical, most ample for constructing the convent of their own accord alms conferred; & to themselves a grace & benefit to be afforded even the greatest judged, if of some little cell conventual, or of some hermitorium separated from the convent the founders to be they merited. The Card. Albornoz Among whom is eminent the Most Eminent Lord Cardinal Albornoz, who from Rome itself with many sought prayers, that to himself in this hermitage to found it might be lawful a cell eremitic within the wall's circuit, under the invocation of S. Michael the Archangel: which also to him graciously was granted. In whose favor's gratitude, two of the holy Martyrs bodies, by himself from the cemetery of S. Cyriaca outside the walls of the city Roman with a special faculty of the supreme Pontiff Innocent X extracted, to this eremitic convent as a gift sent, with the following Epistle, in Spanish written idiom, which here I subjoin in Latin rendered.

[3] he sends two bodies of Martyrs, Since hitherto I have neglected to fulfill that my obligation, I would not permit that without this my epistle there go away P. Fr. Francis of S. Anastasius, the office of Procurator general having discharged, by whom the hands I may kiss of your Paternity, & of all the Fathers of that convent & hermitage. This setting-out this I him nearly envy: for I desired myself to those holy places to go, & to be the bearer of the two holy bodies, which in their of ebony cases shut with authentic documents I send to that convent: where I wish & desire that they remain always: & therefore this very thing I write to the P. General that to be done he may command, & also your Paternity I supplicate that the same he take care, in what manner about to do I believe. For on that only condition them I destine to that holy house. Greatly I rejoice that our P. General has wished to me to be sent the measure of the tablet, of which capable is the altar in the hermitorium of S. Michael, that it here to be made I may take care by the best whom I shall find painter; & a daily Mass he founds. & within a brief time thither also about to send myself I trust of money a sum, for this necessary that hermitorium that have a dowry of a hundred ducats yearly, for whose cause the hermit who the place shall inhabit be obliged daily to sacrifice to my intention. But that my name, to the eyes of those entering exposed them may admonish for me to pray not only the present but also future, therefore, not indeed of any vanity for the cause, I have supplicated the P. General & the same I ask of your Reverence, that there be placed above the door a title, by which it be understood that I am he who there a daily Mass founded, & who sent two of the Saints bodies to that holy house: of whose dwellers single & to your Paternity the hands I kiss, asking all, that me they commend to God, who you for many years preserve. At Rome the VIII of March in the year 1647. Adds then with his hand own the Most Eminent: Those two bodies are of S. Sabinus & S. Certesius the Martyrs. The servant of your Paternity the Cardinal De Albornoz.

[4] That epistle, & together of the holy Martyrs the bodies happily to Madrid came, are received they religiously in the year 1647 & thence to the hermitage of Bolarca under the beginning of December of the same year 1647, leading them R.P. Antonius of the Cross, of the same hermitage Prior, & from the village of Sayaton the Parish-priest, the Bailiff, & some other devout persons of the same place accompanying. The Hermit-dwellers to meet the sacred bodies even to the lower gate of the Enclosure came: where with knees bent for some space in prayer prostrate, with the greatest of mind devotion & exultation to the new of the hermitage dwellers now now about to be a happy coming wishing, them religiously, the hymn Te Deum laudamus singing, to the church led; & there laid them up even to the tenth day of May (which was a Sunday) of the following year that is 1648, on which their translation's festivity solemnly was celebrated. Which that more solemn might be there came R. P. the Provincial P. Gaspar of S. Joseph, & the translation is celebrated in the year 1648. with some of the neighboring Convents' Priors. A Mass solemn by them sung, & other divine Offices duly completed, replaced were SS. the Martyrs Sabinus & Certesius the boys' bodies, on this & on that of the sides of the highest altar, in urns of ebony made & transparent (so that the sacred bones to be seen can) with glasses crystalline adorned, & by the very Most Eminent D. Cardinal from Rome transmitted. Burning were to the Hermit-dwellers coals those of SS. the Martyrs bones; greatly indeed of their devotion the ardor they kindled, especially of S. Certesius of so small an age a little boy: scarcely indeed the eighth of age year he had completed, as from the head & other of the body little bones, & also & by the teeth (which never to have changed he seems) it can be conjectured.

[5] Of these Saints the bodies received the abovesaid Cardinal Albornoz, the blood of S. Sabinus given to the Hermitage of Batuecas. & sent with two ampullae, of the same with blood filled: but R.P. John Baptist, the General of the Congregation Spanish, the ampulla of the blood of S. Sabinus the Martyr sent to the convent eremitic of los Batuecas in old Castile, where in great price & honor it is held. The aforesaid moreover of the Saints' bodies Translation, every year on the day X of May devoutly by those Hermit-dwellers Carmelites Discalced is recalled. Hitherto the relation, communicated by R.P. Joseph Ignatius of S. Antonius from Topraches of Rebec, then of the Province Gallobelgic of the Carmelites Discalced Procurator at Brussels: to which what to be added greatly should I desire? For the things which to be desired perhaps here could testimonies to make of the finding faith, since altogether similar to others a little before brought forth & oftener elsewhere proposed they are, without inconvenience hence to be absent they seem.

ON SS. SILVESTER AND FROMINIUS

BISHOPS OF BESANÇON IN BURGUNDY.

CENTURY IV

Silvester, Bishop of Besançon in Burgundy (St.)

Frominius, Bishop of Besançon in Burgundy (St.)

BY THE AUTHOR G.H.

Besançon, the Sequani's Metropolis & a free Imperial city within the County of Burgundy, very many had Bishops, with the title of Saint honored, whose deeds done described John James Chiffletius the Bisontine, in the second part of Besançon. In this in chapter IX & X about these Bishops these things he has: S. Silvester I. This one Golusius to the following Frominius postpones, & of either the matters wrongly mixes: we him from more certain monuments & most ancient catalogues in this place restore. S. Silvester his betrothed left Blessed therefore Silvester, by his parents' exhortation & also command a virgin to himself betrothed: whose embraces when he preferred to inviolate beds, to that his betrothed he led, that of eternal virginity by a vow each themselves to God bound. To them praying was present a destined from heaven messenger: who twin proposed crowns, to the betrothed at once & the betrothed minds great brought, by which the given to God faith bravely & piously they might keep. The maiden therefore to the company of Virgins, to the Clergy ascribed, Silvester to the Clerics himself joined: who among with great praise & of a preeminent certain virtue a signification having been versed, worthy at length judged he was, who, Anianus being translated to the Heavenly Ones, to the Episcopate's summit should be raised. That office when he bore, he is ordained Bishop: & with growing old either of the idols the cult or the Arian impiety, great being made daily to the pious flock an accession; to S. Mauritius & companions a basilica at Besançon he dedicated, he dedicates the church of S. Mauritius, which today still survives: into which to the assemblies & divine offices of the people some part should assemble. He was indeed besides a of marvelous works worker notable, as of one whose virtue in curing paralytics, with miracles he shines: the blind also of light the enjoyment to be given, nay & the dead to life to be recalled, not rarely shone. in his Episcopal Chair he dies: At the last with the pressing

by the force of disease, when he foresaw the goal of his life by a divine favor, having summoned the assembly of the Clergy, he ascended the Pontifical throne (so our records) and in the midst of his flock the pious Shepherd rendered his blessed soul to God: but he wished his body to be committed to a tomb near Anianus his predecessor, but in what place is uncertain.

[2] He is venerated 10 May His feast moreover is thus noted in the Martyrology of St. John. On the VI Ides of May at Besançon, S. Silvester Bishop and Confessor, whose life is commended by miracles. And then in the following month. and 5 June On the Nones of June the Translation of the Holy Confessors Silvester and Anianus, Archbishops of the Chrysopolitan Church. Whence, whither, when, and by whom this translation was made, is hitherto unascertained by me. I suspect, however, that when the church of S. Peter was enlarged, so that it might enclose the body of B. Nicetius Archbishop of Besançon buried outside the walls; the bodies of SS. Anianus and Silvester, on account of the translated body, laid in some part of the old church, were dug up, and again buried in the middle of the choir of the basilica restored to a better state. Indeed in that place, in the floor which is daily worn by the feet of those chanting psalms, there are seen stones arranged in the form of a square railing (with walls drawn beneath to separate the ground, which some years ago were found while digging) which enclose a space large enough. And indeed on that side of the square which is nearer to the greater altar, the middle stone is read inscribed thus:

The railing buries many bodies of Saints, For this cause therefore it receives no others.

But on the opposite side these things are carved in the stones. Many bodies of Saints are buried in the same place: whose happy souls are crowned in heaven.

[3] Silvester was succeeded by S. Frominius, a most perfect example of piety and religion: in whose eulogies our Elders chiefly left these things, S. Freminius devoted to virtues, that he was most addicted to prayer, to the affliction of the body, and to the bestowal of alms. He completed the upper basilica of the Caelian hill, begun to be raised to Stephen the Protomartyr by B. Hilarius, he completed the basilica of S. Stephen: and promoted by Pancratius: and in it he first established a college of Regular Canons, which he took care to fortify by Apostolic authority, many privileges having been obtained from Damasus and Siricius for that purpose. Hence the beginning of the Canons of S. Stephen, and so of the church itself: so that even from this it may appear, on how no foundation some have made it the most ancient of the churches of Besançon, which, at the time when it was completed, had four others before it; namely the mother church of S. John the Evangelist, he is buried in it. of S. John the Baptist, of S. Peter, and of S. Mauritius. The body of the deceased Frominius was laid on the right side of the altar of S. Stephen, of the upper church or of the lower, which was called both S. John and S. Stephen, is not altogether certain: for neither is that custom so ancient of burying no one in the church of S. John, as I remember in Paulinus. Thus Chifletius, having scarcely, I believe, other ancient monuments which he might follow, than the lessons inserted into the old Breviary a few centuries since. No one therefore ought to be moved, because, by a usage of an age far later than that in which Frominius lived, he reads Regular Canons named.

[4] Of the above-named Pontiffs, S. Damasus presided over the Church from the year CCCLXVI to the year CCCLXXXIII, in which he died and is venerated on XI December: to him then succeeded Siricius and he lived to the year CCCXCVIII. Hence concerning the time of the See of S. Frominius it is clear. Both Silvester and Frominius are joined on this day by Aubertus Miraeus in his Belgic and Burgundian Annals, Memory in the annals. and Andreas Saussajus in the Gallican Martyrology, with eulogies added but taken from the narration of Chifletius. Ferrarius in his Catalogue on V June has these things: At Vesontio in Gaul the Holy Bishops Silvester and Anianus. It is noted, from the Tables and Catalogues of the Bishops of Vesontio, and from the Calendar of the Church of Vesontio. On the same day the cited Miraeus and Saussajus treat of S. Anianus alone.

ON SS. PALLADIUS I AND PALLADIUS II

BISHOPS OF BOURGES IN AQUITAINE I.

CENT. IV

Palladius I, Bishop of Bourges in Aquitaine the First (S.)

Palladius II, Bishop of Bourges in Aquitaine the First (S.)

BY THE AUTHOR G.H.

There were among the people of Bourges two Bishops called Palladius, both ascribed to the Saints on this day X May. The first has veneration in his own diocese, the other in that of Cahors, as will be said below. In the Patriarchium of Bourges with Philippus Labbe chapter 9 these things are narrated of the first Palladius: Ninth presided S. Palladius, Ninth Bishop at Bourges, a man indeed among the chief very distinguished, inasmuch as, never enticed by the superfluous delight of this most vain world, he is reported to have been able to be moved away from desiring the felicity of the supernal city Jerusalem. And among these things, while he desired to surpass in piety and religion all who before him had borne the principate of the Priesthood; in his breast so great a heat of faith, so great purity was daily increased, that, although at that time many men, otherwise lofty in knowledge and dignity, a Catholic against the heresies, but, alas! polluted with the virulent contagion of diverse heresies, afflicted the Catholic Church with grievous and intolerable sadness; yet he ever preserved unshaken the true doctrine of the Apostolic faith… Who, since he was magnificent in the prerogative of erudition, and the virtue of his mind and the sincerity of his life appeared in him far more magnificent; he himself so long held firmly by valiantly contending the shield of faith against the world, the flesh, and the devil with untiring constancy, until through the grace of God, the enemies overthrown, being victor, at length with an ineffable triumph of glory he entered the hall of paradise, to reign forever with Christ. But (which we most greatly lament) those things which so great and such a Pontiff in his life did, ancient report has by no means brought to our knowledge. His most sacred body was buried in a certain Parochial church, Buried in the parish of his name which from the appellation of his own name is even now denominated. Finally his feast-day is celebrated solemnly every year on the sixth Ides of May, on which day the same holy Patriarch Palladius is believed to have migrated to Christ. He sat moreover seven years, a. 384. from the year three hundred and seventy- seventh, to the year three hundred and eightieth fourth, in the times of Damasus the Pope and of the Emperors Valentinian, Valens and Gratian. Thus far the author of the said Patriarchium.

[2] The aforesaid parish of S. Palladius, commonly S. Palais, is distant four Gallic leagues from the city of Bourges toward the North, 2 Parishes and 2 Priories named from him. and acknowledges as Patron the Abbot of Marmoutier: to whom there is also subject in the same place the Priory of S. Palladius. There is also another parish of S. Palladius with a Priory in the Archpresbyterate of Castres: and the said Prior is under the abbot of La Chaise-Dieu of the diocese of Clermont, and at his presentation the Parish-priest is appointed. There is mentioned the House of S. Palladius in the Bull of Urban III reported in the cited Patriarchium of Bourges page 96, as also the castle of S. Palladius is indicated page 89 in the Bull of Pope Eugenius. Also in book 3 of the Life of S. Austregisilus on 20 May, num. 3, a certain mute man is healed coming from the power of S. Palladius, or his parish. All which things confirm the ancient veneration of S. Palladius, which the ancient Martyrology of the Abbey of S. Laurence of Bourges attributes to him on this same X May in these words: On the sixth of the Nones of May. In the territory of Bourges, S. Palladius Bishop and Confessor. the sacred cult 10 May. Which things are read plainly the same in the MS. Florarium of the Saints, in the Martyrology of the Order of the Carmelites, which is preserved in MS. at Cologne, and in the Martyrology of Cologne and Lübeck printed about the year MCCCCXC, likewise in Grevenus in his Supplement to Usuard and in Canisius in the German Martyrology. But with the phrase changed in Maurolycus and Molanus these things are had: In the field of Bourges of the Gauls S. Palladius Bishop and Confessor. With a longer encomium Saussajus pursues him, but drawn from the things said above. Finally among the proper feasts of the diocese of Bourges is reckoned on this X day the birthday of S. Palladius Archbishop of Bourges.

[3] And these things we judge said of the first Palladius: of the second in the aforesaid Patriarchium of Bourges these things are handed down: S. Palladius Bishop 13 The thirteenth presided S. Palladius, the second of this name, a man indeed remarkable for virtue of mind, endowed with wisdom, exercised in the divine law, eminent in sound doctrine, proved by a long contest against the devil, cautious by experience, and illustrious by the holiness of his life… After he had presided over the Church of Bourges thirteen years, he died in the monastery of Marcillac in the year 461 from the year four hundred and forty-eighth, to the year four hundred and sixty-first; he made the end of living on the sixth Ides of May, in the monastery of Marcillac of the territory of Cahors (as is read in the old Martyrology of the Church of S. Austregisilus de Cistro) while Leo a most holy and most learned man held the Apostolic See, with Theodosius the Younger, Marcian and Leo the first reigning as Emperors, with Merovius and Childeric the father of Clovis reigning in France, who first of the Kings of France received the faith of Christ. Thus far the Author of the said Patriarchium: with whom agree John Chenu in the Chronology of the Archbishops of Bourges, Claudius Robertus in Gallia Christiana, and Andreas Saussajus, who in the Martyrology of Gaul writes these things of him: inscribed in Martyrologies. In the monastery of Marcillac of the diocese of Cahors of another holy Palladius, Bishop of Bourges, who in the Pontifical series was thirteenth and succeeded S. Leo, and illustrious by the testimonies of sanctity in the thirteenth year of his Episcopate departed to his reward. The same Ghinius celebrates on this day in the Birthdays of the Holy Canons: At Bourges in the field S. Palladius Bishop and Confessor, who is reckoned the thirteenth Bishop there, and when for thirteen years he had administered the Prelacy excellently, illustrious in virtues he slept in the Lord, and in his own Church was committed to burial about the year of the Lord 460. So we judge this year is to be read, by a typographical error expressed 250. In the same manner some things of the former Palladius seem to be attributed to this one.

[4] The Cathedral Church of Bourges is dedicated to S. Stephen the Protomartyr, The Church of S. Stephen built by one of these. which Gregory of Tours book 1 of the History of the Franks chapter 29 asserts to be the first among the people of Bourges of the city, composed with wonderful workmanship, and adorned with the relics of the first Martyr Stephen, that is, as the same Gregory book 1 on the Glory of the Martyrs chapter 33 explains, that a part of the blood is contained on the altar of the Church of Bourges. Of this Basilica of S. Stephen and its founder Palladius (whom we judge to be one of the two Saints reported) Venantius Fortunatus sang this poem book 1 num. 3.

Lofty glory surrounds the pious friends of the Lord, Whose honor, diffused, lives in the world. This Martyr endured for Christ in the East's region, Behold, the Blessed one has temples under the West. Founded by the virtue of God, triumphing over death, He received stones, to whom the rock was Christ. The fierce Jewish race, Stephen, whom thou believest to destroy, Though in flesh, yet he knows not to die in honor. He holds the palm by merits, thou the penalty by crime: He possesses the heavens, thou seekest rather the depths. These sacred temples Palladius the Levite established, Whence may there be made for him a house not to perish.