ON SAINT SECUNDINUS,
MARTYR AT CORDOBA IN SPAIN.
From Usuard and more recent authors.
CommentarySecundus, Martyr at Cordoba in Spain (S.)
G. H.
The most ancient and chief memory of this holy Martyr is in the Martyrologies of Usuard written by hand and printed, in these few words: At Cordoba the natal day of S. Secundinus the Martyr. Bellinus, Maurolycus, Greven, Felicius, Molanus, Canisius, Galesinius, and others copy from Usuard, together with the present-day tables of the Roman Martyrology. Peter de Natalibus in book 11 of the Catalogus chap. 130 num. 145 reports the same thus: Secundinus the Martyr on the same day (XII Kalends of June) suffered at Cordoba. Ambrose Morales in book 10 of the General Chronicle of Spain chap. 25 asserts that nothing else is known of him, than that he was a Martyr at Cordoba. In the title however he hints that he seems to have suffered at the same time as the others referred to in the preceding chapters of the said book X, namely in the tenth persecution begun by Maximian and Diocletian. John Marietta also writes that he seems to have suffered under the Heathens. John Vasaeus in the Chronicle of Spain composed in the year MDL, when he had treated about the year CCCVI of the persecution of Diocletian, reports Martyrs slain in various cities of Spain, and among them more than forty killed at Cordoba with S. Secundinus, of whom he hands down some as having suffered under Decius, others in the times of the Goths crowned with martyrdom by the Arians; so that it is wonderful that some attribute [it] to Vasaeus, as if he in the year CCCVI asserted that S. Secundus died as a Martyr. Martin de Roa, in his little book on the Antiquity and authority of the holy Martyrs of Cordoba published in Latin, says about B. Secundinus and Sandalius that beyond the bare name (about which in the Roman and other Martyrologies, and the monuments of the Cordoban Church) there is little or nothing. Meanwhile D. Francisco de Reinoso, Bishop of Cordoba, who died in the year MDCI, taking thought for the spiritual solace of those reciting the Office, ordered his own readings to be ascribed to each, in which those very things which had been found were inscribed. Thus from the said Martin de Roa, Tamayo-Salazar in the Hispanic Martyrology, where he himself reviews these Acts of S. Secundinus, as the said Martin in his book on the Saints of Cordoba in Spanish. They can be read in the authors themselves, since they can everywhere be applied to all Martyrs. In the Church of Cuenca this same Saint is venerated on May XXXIX [sic].