ON S. MONTANUS OR MONTANIANUS,
MARTYR AT SIRMIUM IN PANNONIA.
CommentaryMontanus or Montanianus, Martyr at Sirmium in Pannonia (S.)
G. H.
We treated on XXVI March of Sirmium, the ancient Roman colony and metropolis of all Pannonia; on the occasion of SS. Montanus the Presbyter, S. Montanus is perhaps another from S. Montanus the Presbyter. Maxima the wife, and forty others, there in the river or deep lake plunged. Which here we wished indicated, because it seems possible to be controverted, whether perhaps that same one could be said to have on this day veneration, on account of some translation of the body or of relics. Meanwhile because he is here neither called Presbyter, nor has joined S. Maxima the wife or other companions, nor with them is delivered as submerged, rather we judge another, and indicate in four of the Hieronymian Martyrology's ancient apographs these things to be referred: At Sirmi, or Sirmia the birthday of S. Montanus. Which the same in MSS. Trier of S. Maximinus, and another Corbie very ancient are read, and with no place indicated in MSS. Prague, Roman Vallicellan of the Fathers of the Congregation of the Oratory, and another of Duke Altempsius. In MSS. Richenovian and Rhinovian these things are had: In Sirmia the birthday of S. Montanianus: likewise, but with the arena omitted, in MSS. Augustan of S. Udalric and Parisian of Labbé, and Roman of the monastery of S. Cyriacus, which Baronius greatly used. In the Hibernian MS. of the monastery of Tamlacht is the name of Montanianus and of Montanus: as if they were diverse.
[2] plainly other than S. Montanus the Gallic monk. But S. Montanus the Confessor is mentioned in the Carmelite MS. which at Cologne is preserved: also in the Martyrology of Cologne and Lübeck printed in the year MCCCCXC, and in Greven's Auctary to Usuard. Here he is called a monk in MS. Florarium: about whom in MS. Usuard increased in Alsace these things are read: Likewise at Reims of S. Montanus the monk, formerly blind, by the milk of Elyma the mother of S. Benignus restored. But this from the former is plainly different, about whom we treat at length on XVII May.