Timidenses

ON THE HOLY TIMIDENSES

IN THE PROCONSULAR PROVINCE OF AFRICA.

From the old Carthaginian Calendar.

Timidenses, in the Proconsular Province of Africa (SS.)

D. P.

That Calendar, by us from its excavator

Joannes Mabillon much

praised, and described at XXV

of this month where of S. Flavian;

for this day II Kal. of June of the Holy

Timidenses' Birthday

suggests, by no other testimony to us indeed

confirmable, but neither

needing of other confirmation; Known from a single but indubitable testimony, when of the Birthdays of domestic

Saints most certainly above the rest can testify

the Carthaginian Church itself, whose this Calendar was,

by no means copious in names, nor more than eighty

days through the year, with the deposition of any of its Bishop, or of another

very memorable Saint, or wholly with the patrial name

inscribed having. There is indeed from S. Augustine bk. 7

against the Donatists ch. 22 the noted Faustus, Bishop from

Timida Regia; and from the Catalogue of those who in the year VI

of King Huneric, of Christ CCCCXC, at Carthage convened

in the Proconsular Province, in the Proconsular province, of which Carthage itself is the head,

Benenatus Tumidensis, in Corsica ordered to exile

for the faith. Regia seems to be surnamed that Timida, for distinction

from another Synonymous, whence perhaps in the same

Catalogue, among the Bishops of Mauretania Caesariensis, is held

Securus Timidanensis. Furthermore since the aforesaid Calendar

thus by groups of Saints makes mention, the memory

of Martyrs to celebrate is gathered from a similar following phrase, by which

are there indicated Birthday days, namely, XV Kal. August,

of the Holy Scillitani; XI Kal. Aug.

of the Holy Maxulitani, III Kal. Aug. of the Holy

Tuburbitan women; XVI Kal. Nov. of the Holy

Volitani, as others similarly indicated Martyrs, whose place of birth or contest

within the bounds of the Proconsular Province is known: and for

the Scillitani indeed of the title of Martyrdom is established from the Acts, on

the said their day to be brought forth. Nor with another phrase uses

the Calendar, when among few externals it mentions, Kal.

Aug. of the Holy Maccabees; and … Kal. Sept.

of the Holy White Mass. Would that with this indication had,

from somewhere a more distinct notice be drawn out, not only of those Timidenses

and other already named places; but also

of those whom the same Calendar has pertaining to Mauretania Caesariensis on the IIII Kal. Nov. Vagenses… in Mauretania,

Id. Nov. of the Holy Capitani (so, as I think, called

from their city called Caput-cillanum) and IIII

Non. Feb. of the Holy Carterienses, where I judge it should be read

Cartennenses. But if of these it is uncertain to inquire,

much more difficult it will be come into the notice of those, whose

Birthdays are called, III Id. Dec. of the holy Martyrs

Eronenses, XVI Kal. Feb. of the Holy Rubrenses,

XIIII Kal. Feb. of the Holy Tertullenses and Ficarienses, and elsewhere in Africa.

and finally on the XIII Kal. March of the Holy

Petrenses. For not even the places are known,

whence these receive the nomenclature: wherefore so all

together to propose here it pleased: whom indeed I think under Gentile

Emperors all suffered, none pertaining to the Vandalic

persecution, to which Galesinius would have removed them in his manner,

if a notice of them had been obtained.

ON S. DATIANUS OR DATIANA

MARTYR AT CARTHAGE IN AFRICA.

From the Martyrology of S. Hieronymus.

Datiana 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.