ON SAINT EUSEBIUS
MARTYR IN THE EAST.
CommentaryEusebius, Martyr in the East (S.)
G. H.
We proceed with the four ancient transcripts of the Hieronymian Martyrology: in which these few things are read: In the East of Eusebius, or Eusebii. They mention the same, but without mention of the East, the Mss. of Aachen of the primary Church, the Augsburg of St. Udalric, and the Paris of Labbe.
The name of the East is often in these calendars, and as much as hitherto we could investigate, it is taken for places less known in further Asia, namely Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, and the bordering and frontier places of the ancient Roman Empire in the East. The later Greeks, at Constantinople and in the parts of Europe, ὰπὸ τῆς ἀνατολῆς, from the East, by the aphaeresis of the first syllable most usual to them, Natolia they called lesser Asia: which ought not to be drawn hither. There was indeed St. Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, sent into exile into the Eastern parts, and very many things there from the Arians suffering; but after the death of the Emperor Constantius to his Church returned, and on the Kalends of August departed this life: from him however by us plainly different is reckoned this Martyr Eusebius.