ON S. REVOCATUS THE MARTYR
HONORED AT GENOA IN LIGURIA.
From the Proper of the Genoese Church.
CommentaryRevocatus, Martyr, honored at Genoa (S.)
G. H.
In the Calendar of the Saints, who are celebrated in the particular Churches of Genoa, printed with the proper Offices of the Genoese Church, it is indicated that this XXIX of May is celebrated the feast of S. Revocatus the Martyr, in the Church of the monastery of S. Benignus; and that there are had his Relics. We were ourselves in the year MDCLXII in the said monastery, and these few things then we noted about him: The body of S. Revocatus the Martyr there rests under one of the altars, and his feast is kept on XXIX May with a double rite: concerning whom nothing is found written there. If anything about him ever existed; it together with the other monuments of the same monastery perished, the civil discords once raging or lately the pestilence, as the most reverend Abbot of the said monastery, Benedict Carrega, related to us, by whose solicitude certain relics of the old archive were preserved and digested into order. We have given hitherto in the four prior months various Martyrs Revocatus, at Carthage and in the rest of Africa, at Catania in Sicily, at Smyrna in Asia, and elsewhere having suffered. That some of these was translated to Genoa, as it is not impossible, so it would be affirmed without foundation. It would be even more rash, from the day on which this Genoese one is venerated, to draw a conjecture, that he is the Roman Restitutus, with the name slightly changed to Revocatus: wherefore him, as I find him, thus I leave, to be named separately with the Saints of this day in the present work.