Aemilius

ON SS. AEMILIUS, BASILIUS, PRAETEXTATA, BASIA OR BASILIA, AND PARTINUS, MARTYRS IN GETULIA A REGION OF AFRICA.

from the Martyrology of S. Jerome.

Aemilius, Martyr in Getulia, a region of Africa (S.)

Basilius, Martyr in Getulia, a region of Africa (S.)

Praetextata, Martyr in Getulia, a region of Africa (S.)

Basia or Basilia, Martyr in Getulia, a region of Africa (S.)

Partinus, Martyr in Getulia, a region of Africa (S.)

G. H.

The Getuli or Gaetuli, peoples of Africa,

oftener changed the seats of their habitation: hence by

Ptolemy they are placed in the interior of Libya, by

Honorius between Carthage and Numidia,

by Pliny in Mauritania Caesariensis, by others

elsewhere. But in the region of these, Gaetulia, but without more distinct

notice these Martyrs are indicated to have suffered for the faith by

four copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology, of which

the most ancient Echternach hands down these things: In Getulia of Aemilius,

Basilius, Praetextata, Basia, Partinus. In other copies

is said The birthday of these Saints, and in the place of Aemilius and Basilius,

in the Corbie MS. printed at Paris is had Aemelus and Baselus,

but the last is wanting in the Lucca codex: in which

also in the place of Praetextata is written Praetestatus, and in the

Blume MS. Protestata. In the place of Basia in others is Basilia: and

Partinus in the said Corbie is Parthimios. In the Reichenau MS.

or of Augia the rich it is thus read: In Getulia of Aemelius:

as also is written, but the palaestra being omitted, in the Augsburg MS.

of S. Udalric; and Aemilius in the Paris MS., submitted to us by Philip

Labbe. The names of Aemelius and Basilius

are mentioned also in the Hibernian MS. of the monastery of Tamlacht.