ON S. DATIANUS OR DATIANA MARTYR AT CARTHAGE IN AFRICA.
From the Martyrology of S. Hieronymus.
CommentaryDatiana or Datianus, Martyr at Carthage (S.)
D. P.
Datianus or Datiana at Carthage celebrate the same ancient apographs of the Hieronymian Martyrology, Lucca, Blume, and Corbie printed at Paris. But the old MS. of the Queen of Sweden, praised by Holstenius in his Animadversions to the Roman Martyrology, has these things: At Carthage the birthday of S. Datianus. With palaestra however omitted, the name of Datiana is read in MS. Parisiensis of Labbé; and of Datianus, in MS. Augustanus of S. Udalric. Nor more than six codices' testimonies do we find. We must however confess, that not very celebrated was to the Carthaginian Church this martyrdom, since in the aforesaid its Calendar of it no mention is found: unless someone wished to suspect, that the just-mentioned Holy Timidenses, brought to Carthage, for the cause of the faith before the Proconsul to be pleaded, and there having consummated their martyrdom; whose leader was Datianus, alone in the Martyrology named.