Anastaso

ON SAINT ANASTASO

AT LEUCADIA IN THE IONIAN SEA.

The cult from a MS. Greek Synaxarium.

Anastaso, at Leucadia in the Ionian Sea (St.)

G. H.

Leucas or Leucadia, an island of the Ionian sea near Epirus, to Acarnania so near adjoins, that to it by a bridge it is joined: in which is a city of the same name, by Mohammed the second from the Venetians snatched. In this island to have lived Saint Anastaso, & there among the Leucadians in peace a holy life to have ended, delivers the MS. Synaxarium which in Greek at Dijon in the college of the Society of Jesus is preserved: & these verses are added.

Ἀναστάσω ζῇ, πλην μύει κοινῷ τέλει, Ἀνάστασιν μένουσα κοινην τοῦ γένους.

Anastaso lived, & by a common death is hidden, Awaiting the common day of the race for rising again.