ON SAINT VICTORINUS
MARTYR IN THE TERRITORY OF BOURGES.
CommentaryVictorinus, Martyr in the territory of Bourges (S.)
G. H.
Massay or Massayum, of the Order of S. Benedict diocese of Bourges in the Archpresbytery of Graçay, was a monastery dedicated to S. Martin by Charles the Great, relate the Sammartani in volume 4 of Christian Gaul page 626. Philippus Labbe in the Hagiology of Franco-Gallia, from the ancient Martyrology of the Abbey of S. Lawrence of Bourges excerpted, writes these things: In the territory of Bourges, in the monastery of Massay, of S. Victorinus the Martyr. In the MS. Carmelite Martyrology which is preserved at Cologne, also in the same printed at Cologne and Lubeck in the year 1490, also in Greven in the Auctarium of Usuard printed in 1515 & 1521, & in the Germanic of Canisius these things are read: In the territory of Bourges, in the monastery of Madiacum, of Blessed, or S. Victorinus the Martyr. But, with the monastery omitted, the rest are had in MS. Florarium of the Saints, in Ferrarius in the general Catalogue, & Saussay in the Supplement of the Gallican Martyrology. These however are all the things which about S. Victorinus in the said eight Martyrologies are had: the rest lie hidden. Ferrarius in the Notes thinks him to be the one, who at Clermont with Cassius & Maximus, on the preceding day, in the Roman Martyrology is reported. But that the body of S. Victorinus the Martyr of Clermont was preserved there in the Church of S. Cassius, we showed on XV May at the Acts of these. Wherefore we prefer to propose these things separately for further inquiry. There will be perhaps someone who the time & manner of martyrdom, or certainly the occasion of veneration in the said monastery will indicate.