ON SS. BONINUS, SATERIUS AND PAULINUS,
MARTYRS AT PAVIA IN INSUBRIA.
CommentaryBoninus, Martyr at Pavia in Italy (S.)
Saterius, Martyr at Pavia in Italy (S.)
Paulinus, Martyr at Pavia in Italy (S.)
D. P.
Philip Ferrarius in the General Catalogue on this XV of May has these things: At Pavia of SS. Boninus, Saterius and Paulinus Martyrs. In the Notes he adds, From the tables of the Church of S. Gervasius at Pavia, in which their bodies are preserved: the rest is unknown. That church is sacred to SS. Gervasius and Protasius, famed more for antiquity and the relics of the Saints than for opulence and magnificence of building, adorned at once with the dignity of a Priory and a Parish, the Fathers of the third Order of S. Francis ministering in it: as the Rector there of our Society Scaramucia Visconti wrote to us in the year 1679, adding that the bodies both of these Martyrs and of SS. Chrysanthus and Fortunatus, whom we mentioned above, are kept in a marble ark, placed on the left wall of the choir behind the high altar: on whose tomb, of slight ornament to appearance, the following inscription is read affixed,
D. O. M.
OPPOSITE THIS PILLAR IN A STONE VESSEL LIE
THE BODIES OF THE SAINTS CHRYSANTHUS AND FORTUNATUS
PRESBYTERS. LIKEWISE OF THE SAINTS BONINUS,
SOTERIUS AND PAULINUS MARTYRS. KAL. NOV.
1626.