THE THIRD DAY

SAINTS WHO ARE VENERATED ON THE THIRD DAY BEFORE THE NONES OF NOVEMBER.

St. Quartus, disciple of the apostles.

St. Papulus, martyr in the pagus of Lauragais, in Occitania.

St. Germanus, martyr.

St. Theophilus, martyr.

St. Caesarius, martyr.

St. Vitalis, martyr.

St. Domninus, martyr.

St. Justus, martyr.

St. Hermes, martyr.

St. Gobbanus, martyr.

St. Egrilius, martyr.

St. Agricola, martyr.

St. Felix, martyr.

St. Crescentius, martyr.

St. Severus, martyr.

St. Androna, martyr.

St. Theodotus, martyr.

St. Theodata, martyr.

St. Marianus, martyr at Magubium in Africa.

St. Pelagia, martyr at Magubium in Africa.

St. Maurus, martyr at Magubium in Africa.

The holy twenty-eight martyrs, burned by fire.

The holy martyrs in the Thebaid under Decius.

St. Libertinus, bishop.

St. Agrigentinus, martyr.

St. Peregrinus, martyr.

St. Valentine, presbyter, martyr at Viterbo.

St. Hilary, deacon, martyr at Viterbo.

The holy innumerable martyrs at Saragossa in Spain.

St. Acepsimas, hermit in Syria.

St. Elias, solitary.

St. Valentinian, bishop, at Salerno.

St. Silvia, mother of St. Gregory the Great.

St. Domninus, bishop of Vienne in Gaul.

St. Gaudiosus, bishop of Tarazona in Spain.

St. Boamirus, monk, in the diocese of Le Mans.

St. Guenael, abbot, in Armorican Britain.

St. Muirdeabhar, confessor in Ireland.

St. Corcunutan, confessor in Ireland.

St. Coeman, confessor in Ireland.

St. Rumwold, son of the king of Northumbria, in England.

St. Winifred, virgin, in England.

St. Hubert, bishop of Liège.

St. Pirmin, abbot in Swabia.

St. Odrada, virgin, in Brabant.

St. Marianus, martyr, at Bardowick in Saxony.

St. Gibrian or Gobrian, bishop of Vannes, in Armorican Britain.

St. William, hermit in Alsace.

St. Baya, virgin, in Scotland.

St. Maura, virgin, in Scotland.

St. Ermengol, bishop of Urgell in Spain.

St. Amicus, monk in the Abruzzi.

St. Ida, countess of Toggenburg, in Switzerland.

St. Berard, bishop of the Marsi.

St. Malachy, bishop of Connor in Ireland.

Bl. Alpais, virgin, at Cudot in the territory of Sens.

Bl. Simon of Sant'Arcangelo, of the Order of St. Dominic, in the district of Rimini.

PASSED OVER AND REFERRED TO OTHER DAYS.

SS. Acepsimas, bishop, Aithala, deacon, and Joseph, priest, who are celebrated on this day in Molanus's additions to Usuard, in the menology of Basil and here and there among the Greeks, and in the martyrology of Galesini, were treated on the 22nd of April.

Achaemenides, who is celebrated on this day in the menaea of the Greeks, is the same as St. Hormisdas, martyr, of whom we treated on the 8th of August Act. SS., vol. II Aug., p. 341. .

The natal day of St. Adventius, confessor in the pagus of Touraine, is indicated as kept on this day in the Daveron addition to the Usuardine Martyrology and in the Lübeck-Cologne editions and those of Greven and Molanus; and thence in the Gallican Martyrology of André du Saussay and in the martyrology of Canisius or Walasser. But no further monument of this saint could be found anywhere.

St. Aithala. See Acepsimas.

St. Amandus is entered together with Pirminius in the St. Gall copy of the Hieronymian Martyrology in these words: The deposition of Pirminius and Amandus, bishops and confessors. On the same, our former colleague Victor De Buck, in the Preliminary Commentary on St. Amandus of Worms, at the 26th of October, no. 35 Act. SS., vol. XI Oct., p. 921. : On the 3rd of November, he says, our predecessors found the name of Bishop Amandus in an ancient Calendar: the bishop of Strasbourg is meant On whom the same Fr. V. De Buck, vol. cit., p. 827 ff. , whose bones were once honorably translated on this day.

St. Ambrose, abbot of Agaunum, is referred to the 3rd of November by the Brussels and Hagenoy additions to Usuard. Of this saint we treated at length on the preceding day.

St. Amicus. In Ph. Ferrari's General Catalogue of the Saints who are not in the Roman Martyrology, there is entered on this day, at Arabona in Picenum, St. Amicus the Hermit, that is, that Amicus of Ramibona of whom Peter Damian speaks, Opusc. VI, chapter 29. Him indeed we shall more probably determine to be different from Amicus of Fonte Avellana, of whom we shall have to treat more distinctly a little below. But Ferrari, not interpreting Ménard rightly enough, rashly places his feast on the 3rd of November, which none of the martyrologists or of the ancient writers at all assigned for keeping his memory. For the rest, what is known of him you will find in the Commentary on St. Amicus of Fonte Avellana, nos. 3 – 5.

The translation of St. Andochius. In a certain addition to the Usuardine martyrology (Cod. D. Le Mare A) edited by Sollerius, there is indicated on this day, the 3rd of November, The translation of St. Andochius, priest. Of the martyrdom and translations of this saint our forebears treated on the 24th of September Vol. VI Sept., p. 663. . Nor does it appear to which of the translations recorded there, nos. 53 – 57, the present memory is to be referred.

St. Benedicta. In the Calendar of the Saints of the Order of St. Benedict from the codex of St. Michael's at Antwerp, and thence in the martyrology of Canisius or Walasser, there is entered on this day the memory of St. Benedicta, nun, disciple of Bl. Galla, abbess at Rome, who is said to have died on the thirtieth day after her mistress. This seems to have been the reason why she was referred to the present day by the aforesaid martyrologists: namely, that with the Roman Martyrology they kept St. Galla on the third day before the nones, that is, the 5th day of the month of October. But the same Roman Martyrology indicates that St. Benedicta is honored on the 6th of May, on which day our forebears treated of her Vol. II May, p. 107. .

St. Benignus, bishop and confessor of Glastonbury, who is read on this day in the later editions of Molanus, seems to be the same as the bishop of Armagh, disciple of St. Patrick, of whom we shall have to speak at length on the 9th of November.

St. Caesarius, deacon, who occurs today in some places, seems to be the same as the one of Terracina, of whom we treated on the calends of November.

St. Kenelm, who is announced on this day in the Catalogue of Peter de Natalibus, in Ferrari's General Catalogue, in the English or Sarum Martyrology of Richard Whitford and in Maurolico, is kept according to others on the 17th of July; on which day he was spoken of Vol. IV July, p. 297. .

Christina. Lahier, in the Menology of Virgins Vol. II, p. 383. at the 3rd of November, says that there died on this day at Trier, in the year 1000, Christiana, daughter of Leopold, margrave of Austria, and sister of St. Poppo, archbishop of Trier, whom he reports as adorned with the title of Saint and as having been illustrious for miracles in life and after death. But of all these things he brings forward distinctly no other surety than the Annales Trevirenses of Christoph Brower: and in him only this is read of Christina Vol. I, book XI, no. 86, at the year 1049. : He (Poppo) had a sister Christina: who, captivated by the beauty of virtue and spurning the fleeting joys of a perishing world, after the example of Bl. Symeon, shut up somewhere within sacred walls, lived alone for herself and for Christ, of whom the very ancient annals of this age say: On the third day before the nones of November died Christiana the recluse at Trier, sister of Poppo, archbishop of the same place. There is nothing there of sacred cult or of miracles wrought by her. Lahier does indeed cite besides Pontus Heuterus, André du Chesne (these, however, only as regards the genealogy of the house of Austria, as he himself says) and others: but I have found none whom it is permissible to bring forward to establish the credibility of Lahier's account.

St. Clarus, who occurs today in the additions to Usuard, belongs to the following day.

Clithaneus, martyr, is referred to this day by the English Martyrology of Richard Whitford; but others refer him to the 19th of August, where our forebears treated his Acts Vol. III Aug., p. 733. .

Conrad of Marburg, announced in the Franciscan Martyrology, is said to have been the confessor of St. Elizabeth; different, however, from that one who, acting as inquisitor of the faith in the parts of Germany, fell slain by heretics. But since various writers go off into various opinions, the question to be solved is put off to the day sacred to St. Elizabeth, that is, the 19th of November.

The memory of Cuthbert with his companions is entered on this day by the Calendar of New Farina, and that of St. Cuthbert, bishop, by the Martyrology of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Dublin. We know of no other St. Cuthbert besides the bishop of Lindisfarne, of whom in our Acts on the 20th of March Vol. III March, p. 93. .

SS. Demetrius and Eudoxia. See below, the Acts of SS. Valentine and Hilary on this day.

Didacus Millanus, who departed this life at Alconchel (it is a town situated toward the southern part of the city of Pax, commonly Badajoz) in the convent of the Fathers of St. Francis over which he presided, is said in Arthur (copying Daza) to have been illustrious for many miracles. That is the reason why he is called blessed.

The elevation of St. Edith, royal virgin, is kept on this day by a certain Calendar of the eleventh century edited in Hampson Medii aevi Kalendarium, vol. I, p. 422. , by Arthur du Monstier in the sacred Gynaeceum, and by the Benedictines Wion, Ménard, Bucelin, Heredia, Cherle and Lechner in their martyrologies or menologies. On this elevation compare our Acts at the 16th of September, Commentary on St. Edith, no. 25 at the end Vol. V Sept., p. 369. .

St. Egetius is celebrated in the Supplement to the Gallican Martyrology by André du Saussay at the 3rd of November in these words: On the same day, of St. Egetius, bishop, celebrated in the ancient annals of the church of Rodez; in the Universal Martyrology of Chastelain: In the Rouergue, St. Egetius, bishop (about 525); finally, if indeed the same man is spoken of, in the Catalogue of Saints of Simon de Peyronet: Egecius, confessor, 6 November, on which day he is kept with a double office in the Proper of the Feasts of the Saints of the church and diocese of Vabres published at Toulouse in the year 1655. The rest is hidden from us. Nor could we find anything more about this saint.

The memory of Englatius, abbot, is entered on the 3rd of November in the calendar of the Aberdeen Breviary, and in the Aberdeen Martyrology: On the same day in Scotland, of St. Englacius, abbot, of whom the church of Terwes is named. The same man is adorned with the title of bishop in the more recent Scottish calendars or menologies, namely in Adam King: St. Englatius, bishop and confessor in Scotland under King Kenneth III, (in the year) 966; in the Scottish Menology of Thomas Dempster: In Scotland, of Englatius, bishop, who saw the capture of the Picts and bewailed it before the war; in the Calendar of David Chambers (at the 5th of November): St. Englatius, bishop and confessor: he was of great repute for sanctity in Strathbogie and celebrated for the glory of his miracles; finally in Richard Challoner: In Scotland, the feast of St. Englatius, bishop, who passed to the Lord in the year 966. Of the life of this saint, as Alex. Forbes testifies Kalendars of Scottish Saints, p. 332. , nothing has been handed down to memory; but in all the catalogues he is connected with the village of Tarves, where he is commonly called Tanglan. — With Englatius we join three others who are commemorated on this day in the Aberdeen Martyrology or other Scottish documents, but who are to be placed among those passed over, because they are either otherwise entirely unknown or their ecclesiastical cult is not sufficiently demonstrated. These are Gobanus, who is named in the Calendar of David Chambers with no title added or other mention, and is perhaps the same as that St. Gobanus whose Acts our forebears gave on the 20th of June Vol. IV June, p. 21. and Colgan in a certain Annotation on the Life of St. Fursey Act. SS. Hiberniae, p. 91, note 6. ; Matthias, who is announced in the Calendar of New Farina in these words: Of Matthias, bishop and confessor; and Nidanus, of whom the Aberdeen Martyrology says: On the same day in Scotland, of St. Nidan, confessor, at Midmar: they relate that he was a disciple of St. Kentigern Al. Forbes, op. cit., p. 420. .

St. Eudoxia. See Demetrius.

St. Eugene, bishop of Toledo, is referred to this day by Ghini SS. Canonicorum Natales, p. 84. , and by Ferrari in his General Catalogue, where however he notes this: By some on this day. Of him in the Roman Martyrology on the 13th of this month, with which the tables of the church of Toledo agree. Of St. Eugene, therefore, we shall have to treat on the 13th of this month.

St. Euphrosynus, bishop in Pamphylia, at Panciano in Etruria, of whom the Florentine additions to Usuard speak, was treated on the 1st of May.

St. George the great martyr, in the city of Lydda. The Acts of this martyr, most celebrated in all the world, were treated on the 23rd of April. Among the Ethiopians, the Copts and the Greeks the Dedication of the Church of St. George is celebrated on the 3rd of November.

George of Alexandria. In the sacred annals of the Ethiopian church in Ludolf In the Commentary on his Ethiopian History, Frankfurt on the Main, 1691, p. 397. , on the seventh day of the month of Hatyr, which is the third day of November, there is celebrated George the Archmartyr; in the Ethiopian synaxarion edited by Dillmann [Catalogus codd. mss. bibliothecae Bodleianae, part VII (Ethiopic codices), p. 44.] , The martyrdom of George the great martyr; in the martyrology of the Copts in Angelo Mai Scriptorum veterum Nova collectio, vol. IV, p. 99. , The martyrdom of St. George of Alexandria, nephew, by his sister, of Armenius, governor of Alexandria. Of this George a manuscript martyrology of the Bollandist museum hands down the following: St. George of Alexandria was the son of a merchant from among the citizens of Alexandria. He had no children, but one day he was at the dedication of St. George, and he asked of the Lord that through the intercession of the saint he would give him children, and he gave him this saint, and he gave him the name George. This saint one day was walking outside the city with a certain girl, the daughter of Aramoenus. She saw certain brothers in a monastery singing the divine praises, and asked St. George to explain those praises to her; he explained them to her and instructed her excellently in the things of the faith. When she came to her father, she confessed that she was a Christian. He urged her to deny what she was saying. But she would not deny it; the cruel father ordered that the head of that girl, his daughter, be cut off, and so she merited the crown of martyrdom. Likewise, when it had become known to the governor that St. George had taught her the Christian faith, the governor ordered that he be tortured and then that his head be cut off; and so it was done, and he received the crown of martyrdom. This George, until we obtain more certain documents, we pass over.

Gobanus. See above, Englatius.

St. Guenellus. Of the error admitted by Ferrari concerning this saint our forebears spoke, when treating of St. Guenninus on the 18th of August Vol. III Aug., p. 663. . Here therefore let it suffice to have added that André du Saussay went before Ferrari, who in the Supplement to his Gallican martyrology under the 3rd of November brought in this: At Vannes in Armorica, of St. Guenellus, bishop of that city, whose body, laid in the cathedral church, rests venerably behind the sacred limbs of St. Vincent.

The Irish (Saints). In the Martyrology of Donegal, besides Malachy, Corcunutan, Muirdeabhar and Caieman, of whom we shall have to treat more distinctly below in particular Commentaries, there are reviewed on this day, the 3rd of November, Conodhar, abbot of Fore, in the year of the Lord 706; Ferdachrioch; Caemhlach, of Raithin; Lappan, of Cluainaithgein; Brenainn, of Glaisda-Colptha; Mo-Ego, of Inis-Conaill; Mochaemhog, pilgrim; Cairicin (according to Marianus, Ciricin); Brughach; Diomma. These names of men are also entered on the same day in the martyrology of Marianus O'Gorman Compare above, p. 339 b. ; but what is read added to them here is owed to his scholiast, except the words in the year of the Lord 706, by which the compilers of the martyrology of Donegal designate the year of the death of Conodhar, according to the Annals of Ulster Cited by W. Reeves in a note on the Mart. Dungall. at this place. ; but in the Annals of the Four Masters his death is noted at the year 705: Conodhar, abbot of Fore, died on the third day of November. So also Colgan Act. SS. Hib., p. 143, col. 2 at the end. . Of Brugacius the compilers of the martyrology of Donegal add: This is perhaps that Brugacius, son of Sedna, who was of the race of Colla-da-crioch Compare above at day 1, on St. Brugacius, nos. 1, 3, 6 (pp. 343, 344). . Of the others I find nothing to add, except that the names of some occur rather often in the Irish martyrologies, namely, besides this place, Ferdachrioch on the 30th of March, the 18th and 31st of May, the 30th of August, the 6th of October and the 15th of November; Lappan, on the 11th of February and the 26th of March; Brenainn, on the 9th of January, the 8th and 16th of May, the 27th of July, the 1st and 29th of November, the 1st and 8th of December; Mochaomhog, on the 13th of March and the 13th of April; Diomma or Diomman, on the 6th and 10th of January, the 9th and 22nd of March, the 25th of April, the 12th of May, the 27th of June and the 9th of September.

Hilary, bishop and confessor, occurs on this day among the additions to Usuard; perhaps it is a matter of the dedication of his basilica, as in the Corbie Hieronymian on the calends of November. Of St. Hilary, bishop of Poitiers, we treated on the 13th of January.

A certain St. Humbert, bishop, is announced in André du Saussay in the Supplement to the Gallican Martyrology under the 3rd of November, in this way: At Besançon, the passing of St. Humbert, bishop of Fréjus; and on the same day in Ferrari's General Catalogue: At Besançon, of St. Humbert, bishop, with this note added: From the Breviary of Besançon. The tables of the bishops of Besançon are to be consulted; for there is also a Humbert, bishop of Fréjus. But among the bishops of Besançon no other appears distinguished with the name of Humbert besides the one who sat from the year 1134 to the year 1161; and he is certainly not venerated as a saint [Compare Dunod, Histoire de l'église de Besançon, vol. I, p. 152; Act. SS., vol. I. June. p. 681 ff.; Hauréau, Gall. Christ., vol. XV, p. 43 – 48.] . Nor indeed is anyone of this name read among the bishops of Fréjus Compare Antelmi, De initiis ecclesiae Forojuliensis, p. 153. . As for the breviaries of Besançon, I do indeed find in the calendar of the breviary of Besançon published in the year 1590, at the 3rd of November, this indication: Of the octave of St. Humbert, bishop; but in the calendars published in the years 1826 and 1844, in place of St. Humbert's there has been substituted a commemoration of St. Hubert, to be made at Lauds and at Mass. Whence it is manifestly gathered that no memory of that Humbert, whether bishop of Besançon or of Fréjus, has been preserved in the church of Besançon, and that perhaps through some error or the carelessness of some writer the name of Humbert crept into the ancient calendars of that church in place of Hubert, that celebrated bishop of Liège, of whom we shall have to treat below: there will be the place to examine by what means his cult was carried over to the people of Besançon.

Humilis, one of the number of those young men who from the beginning clung to Bl. Francis, having ended his life in the convent of Florence, obtained such a fame for virtue that in Arthur, who reports many others as witnesses of his opinion, he is named blessed; but since Fr. Moise, in his book Santa Croce di Firenze, illustrazione storico-artistica, has no memory of our blessed, although he testifies that he searched with the greatest possible care whatever lies stored in the archive of this church, which belongs to the Fathers of St. Francis, there is no reason for the time being why we should treat of him elsewhere than among those passed over.

John. See Mercurius.

John Scalarius, of the Order of Preachers, was called blessed by Leandro Alberti De viris illustr. Ord. S. Dominici, book VI, p. 197. and others who committed to writing the memory of the men of the Order of Preachers pre-eminent in the fame of virtue. But since Bernard Gui, who wrote the beginnings of the convent of Castres, where John ended his life In Martène, Analecta Vetera, vol. VI, p. 484. , and was himself prior of the convent in the year 1301, is silent about John, it is rightly conjectured that no cult was paid to him at that time; nor have we learned that this was done afterwards.

St. Joannicius, who occurs on this day in the Menology of Basil and in the Greek Ephemerides, will be treated on the 4th of November.

St. Joseph. See Acepsimas.

St. Justus, whom Saussay reviews today in the Supplement, was treated on the fourteenth day of the month of July.

St. Marcellus, bishop of Paris, of whom we treated on the calends of November, occurs today in certain additions to Usuard.

Matthias. See above, Englatius.

The translation of St. Maurus to the village of Florennes in the territory of Namur is announced on this day by the manuscript Martyrology of Villers, the later editions of Molanus, Saussay and Bucelin Sacrarium Benedictinum, p. 28. . Of this translation and of the cult of St. Maurus at Florennes our forebears treated in the Preliminary Commentary on St. Maurus at the 18th of August, nos. 5 – 8 Vol. IV Aug., p. 516. .

Mercurius and John. Among the Ethiopians the memory of Mercurius and John is made on this day, as is clear from the Ethiopian martyrology of Ludolf, and from the one which Dillmann edited At the place cited a little above, at George of Alexandria. where it reads thus: The repose of Mercurius the younger and of John his brother. Since nothing of their history has become known to us, we pass over both.

Minas or Menas, bishop. The Ethiopian annals of Ludolf At the place cited a little above, at George of Alexandria. celebrate today Menas, bishop of Thmuis, and in the Ethiopian martyrology in Dillmann At the place cited a little above, at George of Alexandria. there is announced: The repose of Abbot Mina, bishop of Tamoi. Of Menas the Coptic martyrology of Mai speaks a little more fully Op. cit., p. 100. : On the same day the repose of the holy Father Menas of Samannud, bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt, who is said to have laid his hand upon four patriarchs of Alexandria (for the sake of blessing, not of ordaining, as will appear later), namely Alexander the 43rd, Cosmas the 44th, Theodore the 45th and Chael or Michael the 46th. In our Coptic martyrology this elogium is read: Likewise St. Mina, bishop of the city of Tamnan. He was a monk of St. Antony the Great. The demon struck him in the foot, and he remained two months lying upon the ground; and then Christ healed him, and gave him power over the demons, and he was elected bishop, and the Lord gave him the power of healing the sick and of knowing human thoughts. And they came to him from every side, to hear his teaching. And four patriarchs came to him, and he placed his hands upon them, that is, he blessed them at their departure, namely Alexandras and Corma, and Teudat and Haiil, patriarchs of Alexandria. And the day of his death was revealed to him, and he sent to call his flock and admonished it and said to it: Be constant in the true faith, and keep the commandments of the Gospel; then he rested in the Lord. This holy bishop flourished in the eighth century, as is clear from the age of the patriarchs who are said to have come repeatedly to him. For in the series of the patriarchs of Alexandria prefixed to the fundamental dissertation of John Baptist Sollerius (volume VII of June), the following years of their deaths are assigned: namely for the first of the four, Alexander II, the 43rd Patriarch, the year 729; for the last of the four, Michael I or Chael, the year 767. We greatly regret that more certain documents about Menas, a man, as it seems, of most outstanding sanctity, are lacking to us: whom therefore, though unwillingly, we pass over.

Nahreius, abbot and martyr. In the Ethiopian martyrology in Dillmann At the place cited above, at George of Alexandria. there is announced The martyrdom of Abbot Nahreus of the Fayum under Diocletian, whom we suspect to be the same as Abbot Rehru, whom the Ethiopian annals in Ludolf commemorate At the place cited above, at George of Alexandria. . Of the same we read in Mai At the place cited above, at George of Alexandria. in the Coptic martyrology: On the same day the martyrdom of St. Nahrauas (Lucius) of the Fayum, who, having been carried by the archangel Michael from Alexandria to Antioch, where the emperor Diocletian was staying, when he presented himself to that same emperor and professed himself a believer in Christ, was thrown to the lions and subjected to various tortures, and at last, beheaded, obtained the palm of martyrdom, which he had long before implored of God. Our Coptic martyrology hands down the things that follow: And St. Nahare, martyr under Diocletian, martyred at Antioch; namely after many and various punishments, that is, in fire and boiling water, afterwards he cut off his head, and St. Julian took his body to his own region with great honor. He was from the territory of Egypt. The uncertain authority of the documents bids that he too be passed over.

Nicholas, son of Master John the Physician of Ravenna, who on this day in the year 1398 ended his life at Venice in the convent of St. Dominic, of which he held the priorship, the hagiographers of the Order of Preachers adorned with the title of Blessed, yet adding nothing from which it may certainly be established that any public cult was paid to him. Whoever wishes to know his outstanding virtues and remarkable prodigies, let him go to Flaminio Corner Ecclesiae Venetae illustratae, Decade Eleven, part I. , who published his Life written by Thomas son of Antony of Siena, a contemporary author Ibid., p. 203 – 218. , then the praises which Bl. John Dominici spoke of him at Venice in the convent of SS. John and Paul Ibid., p. 218 – 220. , and the letter which the same Bl. John gave on the 16th of November of the year 1398 in his commendation to the brothers of the convent of the city of Castello Ibid., p. 220 – 225. . These documents, to which are to be added some passages from the Life of Bl. Mary of Venice by the same Thomas Ibid., p. 363 ff. , furnish the sources from which the writers of a later age drew, above all Ambrogio Taegio, who wished the Life written by Thomas to be inserted almost entire into his work which he entitled: On the Memorable Things of the Order of Preachers.

Nidanus. See above, Englatius.

Notingus is celebrated in the Supplement to the Benedictine Menology of Gabriel Bucelin, on this day, the 3rd of November, in these words: At Constance in Germany, at the Potamic place, of Bl. Notingus, bishop and confessor, and a short compendium of his Life is appended. Trudpert Neugart treated more fully of this bishop, who ruled the church of Constance from the year 920 to the year 935 Episcopatus Constantiensis, vol. I, part I, p. 269 – 279. ; but neither in him nor anywhere else in any approved writer have I found that he was adorned with the honors of the blessed.

Pabulus is called a martyr under King Herod in the additions to Bede. Is it perhaps a matter of Papulus the martyr? But then what of King Herod?

St. Pardulphus. Our forebears noted at the 6th of October, in the Commentary on St. Pardulphus, no. 8 Vol. III Aug., p. 424. , that this saint was announced by Ménard on the 3rd of November: in this, however, slightly erring, that they said this was peculiar to him. For Bucelin too in his Menology, at the same 3rd of November, has this: On the same day, of SS. Pardulphus and Guinailus, abbots, illustrious for the admirable sanctity of their life. Of whom we speak more at length elsewhere, in its place. Bucelin, that is, treated more at length of Pardulphus under the 6th of October. But a mention of St. Guinailus I have not found elsewhere in Bucelin. There is indeed entered in the index placed at the end of the Menology Guinailus, monk, 22 October. But nothing is read of Guinailus on this day in the text of the Menology itself.

Paul, disciple of St. Peter, of whom the addition to Usuard of the Greater Antwerp Codex says: On the same day, of St. Paul, bishop and martyr, disciple of Peter the apostle. Sollerius confesses that he does not know who this Paul is. It may be suspected that he is Papulus the martyr, of whom we treat today, and who in some copy of the Acts is called Paul.

St. Proculus, bishop of Autun, who is announced on this day by Chastelain, will be treated on the 4th of November.

Quiricus I find celebrated on this day only in Ghini, in these words: Likewise in the same place at Toledo, of St. Quiricus, fifth bishop of Toledo, who was the successor of St. Ildephonsus, about the year of the Lord 780.

The memory of Saturninus, hermit in Heuthlant, is entered today in the British martyrology of Richard Challoner: which I do not find noted in other sacred annals. And the same is to be said of St. Theonia, virgin, to whom St. Winefride is said to have been commended by Bishop Elerius: of whom mention will recur in the Life of St. Winefride, to be treated a little below.

Tezelinus or Thieselmus, a priest advanced in age and of venerable conduct, of the Bernardine family, is distinguished with the title of blessed in the Gallican martyrology. You will read the same in Bucelin in the Menology, page 755, in Henriquez in the menology, page 375, and in several others. But they refer it as received from the author of the Exordium magnum, who in book II, chapter 21, having narrated the vision which Godfrey had, a monk of Clairvaux, afterwards bishop of Sora, adds: Passing therefore (the Virgin Mary with the saints and angels) thus solemnly, as we have said, before the step of the sanctuary, at last they went out of the oratory by the door which faces toward the infirmary… Now in that same infirmary a certain venerable old man and priest of holy conduct, by name Thieselmus, had long lain sick: but he had borne the scourges of the loving Father most patiently, as an obedient son. He then, placed in his last moments, was in his agony; and after a little while he exchanged the bitterness of temporal life for the sweetness of everlasting life. Whence the man of the Lord Geoffrey, who had seen this, believed without doubt that such a procession had appeared as a sign of his passing and beatification.

Theodore, bishop of Ancyra, occurs on this day in the menaea. Our predecessors passed him over on the 6th of April, for lack of documents demonstrating an ecclesiastical cult. We pass him over for the same reason.

The translation of St. Venerius to the city of Reggio in Emilia is announced on this day in the Calendar of the Order of St. Benedict from the codex of St. Michael's at Antwerp: Of St. Venerius, abbot, at the island of Palmaria, and more distinctly in Ferrari in the General Catalogue: At Reggio in Emilia, the translation of St. Venerius, abbot, from the island of Palmaria. This memory Ferrari took from the monastic martyrology, with which the tables of the church of Reggio agree. It is read, that is, on this day also in the Benedictine martyrologies or menologies of Arnold Wion, Ménard, Bucelin, Heredia and Cherle. Of that translation our forebears treated on the 13th of September in the Commentary on St. Venerius, nos. 32 – 37 Vol. IV Sept., p. 114. .

Vacatianus is reviewed on this day by Saussay in the supplement. Of his cult nothing has become known to us. Saussay's words are these: Likewise of St. Vacatianus, companion of the apostles of Gaul.

Victorinus, bishop of Poetovio, wrongly called bishop of Poitiers, was treated on the 2nd of November.

That Zenobius and Zenobia are venerated today among the Ethiopians is clear from both martyrologies, of Ludolf and of Dillmann At the places cited above. ; in the latter Zenobia is called the mother of Zenobius. See the Acts of SS. Zenobius and Zenobia on the 31st of October.