ON SS. JANUARIUS AND PELAGIA,
MARTYRS OF LAMOSINA.
CommentaryJanuarius, Martyr of Lamosina in Cilicia (S.)
Pelagia, Martyr of Lamosina in Cilicia (S.)
G. H.
The memory of these Saints is extant in the MS. codices of the Martyrology of Troyes for the Church of S. Lupus, and another transcribed from it and carried from Frankfurt to Cologne for the Carmelite Order: in which these things are read on this XV of May; In the Lamosinian territory of SS. Januarius and Pelagia. Maurolycus the Sicilian Abbot in his Martyrology writes these things: Likewise in the Lamosanian field of SS. Januarius and Pelagia. The same has Constantius Felicius in his Calendar or historical Ephemeris, printed at Urbino. But where the Lamosinian territory or the Lamosanian field is situated, is not sufficiently clear. Stephanus of Byzantium on cities has these things: λάμος ποταμὸς Κιλικίας, καὶ ἡ παρ᾽ ἀυτὸν χώρα λαμουσία, τὸ ἐθνικὸν λαμούσιος. Lamus a river of Cilicia, and the region round about Lamusia, and the gentile Lamusius. Whether therefore for Lamusia, also called Lamosia, and the region or territory Lamosine, let others judge. Lamus flows into the sea near Pompeiopolis, and thence the region or territory is called Lamotis by Ptolemy: and both Lamus and Pompeiopolis were Episcopal cities under Seleucia, the metropolis there.