ON SAINT JEJUNIUS
MONK OF THE ORDER OF S. BASIL IN CALABRIA.
from Italian writers more recent.
CommentaryJejunius, Monk of S. Basil in Calabria (S.)
G. H.
Hieracium, commonly Gerace, a city of Greater once Greece, now of further Calabria, from the year CCCXXX Episcopal, to which was united the Episcopate of Locri, from whose ruins much it grew, and of Greek once rite and obedience was unto at Gerace is said born, the year MCCCCLXVII; in which the Greeks' rites abdicated, it received the ceremonies of the Roman Church. From this Hieracian city to have been B. Jejunius, of the Order of S. Basil a monk, says Ferdinand Ughelli, in tome 9 of Sacred Italy in the Hieracian Bishops under the beginning of column 545. Antonius Beatillus of the Society of Jesus a Priest, in the Saints of the kingdom of Naples illustrating long versed, of the same Saint these things to us wrote: S. Jejunius's memory is had in the Eulogies of the Bishops of Hieracium, which manuscript with me are preserved, and chiefly in the Life of the Most Illustrious Brother John Tirsaeus, from Abbot of S. Philip of the Order of S. Basil, by the Clergy elected Bishop of Hieracium, and by Clement V confirmed in the year MCCCXII. the church and mountain of S. Jejunius. There is also a mountain most lofty, stony, of ascent difficult near the city, a mile and a half from the castle distant the North toward: on its summit is a church half-ruined, which is called of S. Jejunius: by which also name the mountain itself unto this day is called. These Beatillus. David Romaeus in the Index of the Saints, who born or buried are in the kingdom of Naples page 404 among the Hieracian Saints recounts S. Jejunius from the society of Divine Basil, The cult 25 May, and to be venerated says on the XIII Kalends of June. Hieronymus Marafiotto of Polistena book 5 of the Chronicle of Calabria folio 307, enumerates also the Saints of Calabria, and among those names S. Jejunius Confessor of Hieracium. Ferrari, in the Catalogue general at this day; At Locri, he says, in Greater Greece of S. Jejunius a monk, of the Order of S. Basil, and cites the tablets of the Hieracian Church, where (as he says in the Catalogue of the Saints of Italy) great he has veneration: and him asserts with wonderful of life sanctity to have shone, and to seem about the times of SS. Nilus, Fantinus and others to have flourished. Of these S. Nilus lived in the century of Christ X, and is venerated the XXVI of September. the time of his life. But to Fantinus the day XXXI of July sacred is, whose times equally to us uncertain are, as the age of Jejunius.