Husband and Wife Martyrs

ON THE HOLY HUSBAND AND WIFE

MARTYRS AMONG THE GREEKS.

From a Ms. Synaxarium of the College of Dijon S.J.

Husband, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

Wife, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

G. H.

The often by us praised Ms. Menaea of Dijon of the Society of Jesus, at this XXIX of May, these things have. Τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ οἱ ἅγιοι Μάρτυρες, ἀνὴρ μετὰ τῆς συζύγου αὐτοῦ, ξύλοις τὰ ὀστᾶ συντριβέντες, τελειοῦνται. On the same day the holy Martyrs, a Husband with his Wife, their bones crushed with woods, end their life. Then these are added verses, alluding to the words of Adam about Eve, Gen. 2, This now is bone of my bones.

Τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ὀστοῖς συγκατεσθλάσθη, γύναι, Κᾀγὼ σὸν ὀστοῦν πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα φημί.

Thy bones, with the bones of thy husband, are crushed: And I, Woman, say thee Bone of thine, to thy husband.

More neither from elsewhere is at hand, nor do we divine.