THE FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER

SAINTS WHO ARE VENERATED ON THE NONES OF NOVEMBER

St. Zechariah, parent of St. John the Baptist.

St. Elizabeth, parent of St. John the Baptist.

St. Celsus, bishop at Pozzuoli.

St. Felix, martyr at Terracina.

St. Eusebius, martyr at Terracina.

St. Galaction, martyr.

St. Episteme, martyr.

St. Domninus, martyr in Palestine.

Companions, martyrs in Palestine.

St. Nivalis, martyr in Africa.

St. Matrona, martyr in Africa.

St. Salvius, martyr in Africa.

St. Pardus, venerated as a martyr at Benevento.

St. Mark, bishop at Aecae in Apulia.

St. Quartus, confessor at Capua.

St. Marciana, virgin among the Albigenses.

St. Kenan or Colledocus, confessor in Britain.

St. Kerrian, confessor in Britain.

St. Magnus, bishop of Milan.

St. Fibicius, bishop of Trier.

St. Dominator, bishop of Brescia.

St. Laetus, confessor of Orléans.

St. Gonsaldus, hermit of Limoges.

St. Bertila, virgin and first abbess of Chelles.

St. Colman, Irish confessor.

St. Flannan, Irish confessor.

St. Faelan, Irish confessor.

St. Gobban, Irish confessor.

St. Cuillen, Irish confessor.

St. Cainnera, Irish confessor.

St. Caenna, Irish confessor.

St. Gwenfaen, virgin in Wales.

St. Guethenoc, confessor in Armorican Brittany.

Bl. Gerric, founder of the convent at Gerresheim.

Bl. Gerald, bishop of Béziers.

Bl. Martin de Porres, professed tertiary of the Order of St. Dominic.

PASSED OVER AND REFERRED TO OTHER DAYS

St. Agathangelus, of whom this brief commemoration occurs today in the synaxaria: καὶ μνήμη τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀγαθαγγέλου Synaxarium of the Church of Constantinople, p. 198., is a companion of St. Clement of Ancyra, in whose Acts he is said to have been slain on the fifth of the month of November Acta Sanctorum, January vol. II, p. 468..

St. Amantius occurs again in the same Hieronymian codices by which he was announced yesterday in his proper place. We have treated of him in vol. II, 1, pp. 470–87.

St. Angilbert, abbot of Centula, on the nones of November… was translated to Centula, and in the 29th year after his death his body, without spices, was found undecayed. So Nithard, History, book IV, chap. 5. Hence Bucelinus and others commemorate that translation today. Angilbert has been treated at the 18th of February, vol. III, pp. 88–105.

St. Antoninus is said in the auctarium of Ado from the Vatican codex Regin. 511 D. Giorgi, Martyrologium Adonis (Rome, 1745), p. 564. to have suffered with Cyprian, Antonianus and others at Caesarea in Cappadocia. In other codices you will find other names too in the same company. All of these are taken from the Hieronymian codices, and corrupt ones, as they usually are. Who Antoninus or Antonianus may be (for it is beyond doubt the name of one and the same man) is not entirely clear. I would believe that Antoninus, the Palestinian martyr who also suffered at Caesarea in Cappadocia (as is read in the Hieronymian codices) on the ides of November, is commemorated here on account of Domninus, who also met his death at Caesarea, because the place of the passion is the same; and Antoninus of Apamea (the name of the city lies hidden under Appimi), because he is a namesake of the other Antoninus. That similar things occur quite often in the Hieronymian martyrology we have said elsewhere Analecta Bollandiana, vol. XXVI, pp. 92–99..

St. Aprunculus, bishop of Trier, is announced today by the Albergen copy of Usuard. He has been treated at the 22nd of April, vol. III, p. 30.

Concerning SS. Apuleius and companions, and Rogatus and companions, martyrs of Capua, who are noted today by Ferrari in his Topographia, on the testimony of Michael the Monk Sanctuarium Capuanum, p. 142., Michael himself found nothing; nor have we discovered whence the notice of them was taken. Certainly neither Apuleius nor Rogatus is found among the martyrs inscribed in the authentic and ancient Capuan fasti.

St. Baldomir or Baudomir, priest of the church of Chartres, who lived as a solitary with St. Deodatus in the district of Blois on the Loire [Cf. the Lives of St. Deodatus in Acta Sanctorum, April vol. III, p. 273, num. 2; p. 274, num. 3, 4; Documents inédits sur l'histoire de France, Mélanges historiques, vol. I (1873), pp. 55–59 (ed. A. Dupré).], we see commemorated today in the Martyrology of Évreux published in the year 1752. But in the village of Saint-Dié Saint-Dié-sur-Loire, dép. Loir-et-Cher, arr. Blois., in which his relics were formerly kept, his memory was celebrated on the Sunday next after the kalends of November Cf. the Breviary of Blois of the year 1737, autumn part, p. 546., and in the rest of the diocese of Blois on the 13th of November. At that day, if we have anything to bring forward concerning this saint, there will be a more fitting place for doing so.

Cesarius, Cessarus, Caesar, who are inscribed today in the better Hieronymian codices, are repetitions, unless something else is demonstrated, either from the name of Caesarea placed at the beginning, or from the preceding entry, where the individual codices present the words Cesarii, Cessari, Caesari written in exactly the same way.

Of St. Castor, bishop and martyr, this is the commemoration today in the synaxaria: καὶ ἱερομάρτυρος Κάστορος τοῦ ἐπισκόπου Synaxarium of the Church of Constantinople, p. 198.. Concerning him we have not succeeded in finding anything further.

St. Clarus, bishop and martyr, is announced today in very many liturgical books of the diocese of Paris, at least from the 14th century onward (cf. Acta Sanctorum, November vol. II, 1, p. 448, note 27). But from the lessons which are written out for recitation on this feast of his in manuscript breviaries (cf. Catalogus codicum Latinorum Parisiensium, vol. III, p. 715), it is clear that he is the same St. Clarus who is elsewhere usually venerated on the 1st of June.

St. Cungar, otherwise or by surname Docunus, is announced today in the English Martyrology of Richard Challoner; but several older martyrologies commemorate this saint, and accordingly it seems he should be treated at the 7th of November.

The memory of Elizabeth Cueto, who, having taken the Cistercian habit, flourished at Ávila in Hispania Tarraconensis about the year 1603, is recalled today by Henriquez Menologium Cisterciense, p. 372., Bucelinus Menologium Benedictinum, p. 760. and Arthur du Moustier Sacrum Gynecaeum, p. 440.. But since no trace of public veneration of her appears anywhere, there is no reason why we should linger in examining her deeds.

Elizabeth de Wans, a nun of Aywiers in Brabant, whose praise is found today in Bucelinus Menologium Benedictinum, p. 759., our predecessors have already twice placed among those passed over, namely on the 1st of July Acta Sanctorum, July vol. I, p. 6. and on the 9th of October Ibid., October vol. IV, p. 564., because nothing at all was established about her public ecclesiastical cult. Nor does any new reason shine upon us today for departing from the imitation of their circumspection.

Emericus. See below under Henry.

St. Englatius. In the Scottish calendar compiled by David Camerarius and first published at Paris in the year 1631 there is marked at the 5th of November: Saint Englatius, bishop and confessor. He was in great repute for holiness in Strathbogie and distinguished by the glory of miracles In A. P. Forbes, Kalendars of Scottish Saints, p. 241.. Concerning this saint we spoke somewhat more fully at the 3rd of November among those passed over Acta Sanctorum, November vol. I, p. 581 D, E..

Under the leadership of Epiphanius or Appianus or some other, various companies of saints who occur on this day in the Hieronymian codices come forth in several auctaria of Usuard. That all of these whose names have a certain reading are not different from those whose acts we shall shortly attempt to illustrate, there is scarcely need for us to point out. Concerning the rest, since they have been fabricated from corrupt and wrongly understood words, such as Appianus, Appinus, Appimus, in whose place we think Apameae should be read (as we said above under Antoninus), and Epiphanius, who perhaps does not in fact differ from Appianus, there is no leisure to gather more.

Euras, Eurus, Coras and sometimes Eurasius, who is read today in most martyrologies and in not a few calendars, is not the name of a saint, but, as will become manifest from a comparison of the older Hieronymian codices, is corrupted from Ecas, which is an episcopal city, as the Echternach codex rightly reads: At Ecas, of Mark the bishop, concerning whom more below. That some saint named Euras or Eurus really existed, someone might perhaps deduce from the fact that in several calendars mention is also made of him in another place, far removed from the 5th of November. Thus in the calendar of the monastery of St. Benedict at Capua, on the kalends of March, the festival of SS. Eurus and Pardus, martyrs, is announced [Peregrinus-Pratillus, Historia principum Langobardorum (Naples, 1754), vol. V, p. 64.]. But the fact that it is joined to the name of St. Pardus shows sufficiently that this entry depends at long last on today's Hieronymian martyrology. For Pardus, no differently from that fictitious Eurus, occurs on this day, the 5th of November. Together, therefore, in a manner I do not see, they were transferred to the kalends of March in the Capuan book. You will find more on these under St. Pardus.

Bl. Frances d'Amboise, duchess of Brittany, whose feast the Sacred Congregation of Rites, by a decree of the year 1864, ordered to be celebrated with Mass and Office on the 5th of November, departed this life on the day before; and accordingly the course of her life has already been described Acta Sanctorum, November vol. II, 1, pp. 520–26..

Francis of Cropani, an outstanding preacher of the Order of Friars Minor, who died about 1496 at Mesoraca in Further Calabria with a great reputation for holiness, is inscribed as Blessed in the Franciscan Martyrology and in the Calabrian Martyrology Giovanni Fiore, Calabria illustrata, vol. II, p. 480.. Certain authors of the same religious family vie with one another in celebrating his body, which, being exhumed eight years later, was found immune from all the decay of corruption and breathing a most sweet odour For example Wadding, Annales Minorum, at the year 1496, § V.. But since they bring forward no manifestation of popular cult even on this occasion, it is not our business to investigate his acts, which in any case for the most part lie hidden.

Gerard, disciple of St. Bernard and abbot of Nydala in Sweden, Henriquez Fasciculus sanctorum ordinis Cisterciensis (1631), pp. 271–74. and Bucelinus Menologium Benedictinum, p. 759. adorn with the title of Blessed, without bringing forward any sign of public cult shown to him; we are therefore compelled by the laws of our work to pass him over.

St. Godwin, abbot of Stavelot, Bucelinus lists today in the supplement of the Menologium Benedictinum; our predecessor V. De Buck treated of him at the 28th of October, vol. XII, pp. 707–11.

Gregory, archbishop of Alexandria. Concerning this St. Gregory, whose praises we drew from the synaxaria in the Propylaeum to November Synaxarium of the Church of Constantinople, pp. 195–98, 963., we have not yet succeeded in finding anything worth reporting. For there was no patriarch of Alexandria of this name in the age of the iconoclasts, and what they devised

I. Martinov Annus graeco-slavicus, p. 271. and others Acta Sanctorum, November vol. II, 1, p. 216. to settle the difficulties, we frankly confess please us not at all. One hypothesis remains, which by no means unties the knot, yet is to be preferred to the rest: that the compiler of the synaxaria mixed different things together and, deceived by I know not what false indication, called a certain Gregory, one of the confessors who suffered for defending the cult of the sacred images, archbishop of Alexandria. Very little had been handed down about that Gregory; for if you delete what is common form in that elogium and the statement that he was bishop of Alexandria, there remains only that Gregory valiantly underwent torments for the orthodox faith and died in exile.

Gregory, whoever he is, noted today in the Hieronymian codices, was repeated by the scribes from the preceding entry. His proper place is among the saints of the 4th of November.

The translation of St. Gregory, bishop of Langres, is inscribed on this day in the Dijon codex of Usuard, which our Du Sollier used, and in a certain missal of the diocese of Toulouse of the 13th century Catalogus codicum Latinorum Parisiensium, vol. III, p. 715.. Cf. at the 6th of November among those passed over.

The liturgical feast of Bl. Helen, a nun of the Order of St. Clare, is kept today in the Proper of the church of Padua and among the Friars Minor; but her acts have been reported by us at the 4th of November, on which she died Acta Sanctorum, November vol. II, 1, pp. 509–11..

The feast of the translation or elevation of St. Henry, also called Emeric, the Hungarians have celebrated today from the 12th century onward, and on the same day the holy youth is announced in the older martyrologies that make mention of him. See at the 4th of November, vol. II, 1, p. 486, num. 34, 35; we treated of him there, pp. 477–91.

The Venerable Hermenegild, a monk of Galicia, is commemorated at this day by Castellanus; concerning him cf. at the 1st of November among those passed over, vol. I, pp. 6–7.

"The church of Syria celebrates the feast of St. Hosius on the 5th of November, and has his name written in its calendar in these words: The solemn feast of Hosius. And the archbishop of Damascus, legate in Rome for the patriarch of that same nation, testifies that there are many churches in the East dedicated to the name of this saint, and that he is held in special veneration there." So Bivar [Flavii Lucii Dextri Barcinonensis Chronicon (Lyon, 1627), p. 389, notes at the year 360.], whom Flórez copies España sagrada, vol. X (1753), p. 193.. At the 27th of August, which is the day of Hosius's death, our predecessors judged that they should refrain from unfolding his acts, because they had found his name in none of the Latin martyrologies Acta Sanctorum, August vol. VI, p. 2.. And they rightly said that Hosius is not inscribed in the fasti of the Latins. For Maceda's contention, who argued at very great length to vindicate the cult of Hosius, that his name lies hidden under the corrupt word Olti in the Hieronymian martyrology at the 27th of August, is asserted without grounds M. I. Maceda, Hosius vere Hosius (Bologna, 1790), pp. 460–62.. However that may be, concerning the cult of Hosius among the Greeks and the Orientals who enriched their fasti with the saints of the Greeks there can be no doubt, after what both our predecessors themselves brought forward and Maceda Op. cit., Martinov Annus graeco-slavicus, p. 208. and Gams Kirchengeschichte von Spanien, vol. II, pp. 303–306: Hosius der heilige. have abundantly heaped up. Wherefore we are grateful to Bivar, notorious forger though he is, for having given us the occasion of affirming, in accordance with the law of our work, that Hosius ought in fact not to have been passed over in our commentaries on the 27th of August, whatever is to be thought about his legitimate cult.

St. Ideburga or Itta, mother of St. Gertrude of Nivelles, Greven inscribed today in his edition of Usuard. But the day of her cult is the 8th of May, at which our predecessor Henschen treated of her briefly, May vol. II, pp. 307–8.

The martyrology of St. Cyriacus in Via Lata, now cod. Vallicellianus F. 85, has the words Ioci, Ludi, that is, Jests, Games, joined to the name Eurasius Acta Sanctorum, November vol. II, 1, p. [139.]. That a pair of saints so merry existed would need to be proved by good arguments, and I think it probable that some phrase utterly foreign to sacred matters, as for instance concerning the emperor Verus, who is said by Julius Capitolinus to have been most becomingly suited to delights, games and jests Peter, Scriptores historiae Augustae, p. 75., was written in the margin of the prototype and intruded into the book by a most inept scribe.

St. Malachy, bishop of Connor in Ireland, whose feast according to very many martyrologies is kept on the 5th of November: his Life has been published on his natal day, the 3rd of November Acta Sanctorum, November vol. II, 1, pp. 135–66..

Marcia, who occurs today in the Wissembourg codex and perhaps in other Hieronymian codices, whence she passed into some Usuardine ones Ed. Du Sollier, p. 654., is miswritten for Mark, bishop of Aecae, concerning whom see below.

St. Mathurin the priest is again commemorated today by the Usuardine auctaria; concerning him see at the 1st of November, vol. I, pp. 245–59.

The feast of St. Meliau, who was the father of St. Melor, Castellanus asserts is kept today in the diocese of Tréguier; in fact it is kept on the 26th of October, at which our V. De Buck treated of him, October vol. XI, pp. 943–47.

St. Modesta, abbess at Trier, is commemorated today by certain martyrologies not so very ancient, and her feast is also now kept on this day in the diocese of Trier. Cf. at the 4th of November, vol. II, 1, p. 309, num. 38; we spoke of her ibid., pp. 299–310.

The memory of St. Natalena, virgin in Aquitaine, was recalled today in several churches of Gaul [Chastelain, Martyrologe universel (1709), p. 562; De Noailles, Martyrologium Parisiense (1727), p. 343; cf. Labios, Vie de Ste Natalène (Pamiers, 1872), p. 93.]. We shall inquire into her acts when the day comes that was formerly sacred to her feast in the diocese of Pamiers, namely the 10th of November.

SS. Paulinus and Augustine, disciples of the most blessed Benedict: Peter the Deacon relates that their bodies were found in the church of St. Stephen at Monte Cassino in the year 1103, Chronicle of the Monastery of Cassino, book IV, chap. 23 [MG., Scriptores vol. VII, p. 772. Cf. the passage from the little book of the same Peter, Ortus et vita iustorum Casinensis coenobii, in Mabillon, Annales, book III, num. XXIV.]; but the same man had related in the same place that this church was dedicated in that year on the nones of November. Whether the relics of the saints were found on this very day is not clear; certainly Ménard, Bucelinus, Wion, Ferrari in his Catalogus generalis, and others announce that finding today. But of those saints we shall speak at the 13th of November, which is solemnly kept in memory of All Saints of the Order of St. Benedict.

Publius, who is found today in the Hieronymian codices, is not different from the one who occurs in the preceding entry and of whom we made mention at the 4th of November.

Pullilus or Pullulus, who is announced today in the martyrology of Gellone D'Achery, Spicilegium, vol. II, p. 36. and in Labbe's Acta Sanctorum, June vol. VII, p. 29., never existed at all; more probably it is a corrupted reading for Publius, who is numbered, though wrongly, as has been said, among the martyrs of this day in the Hieronymian codices. A sufficient indication of the matter is that the other saints listed in the same grouping are the very ones whom the Hieronymian cento indicates, such as Domninus, Gregory, Quartus, etc.

St. Quadanocus, brother of St. Winnoc, Dempster inscribed at this day in his Scottish Menology, citing "the breviary of the proper church." Concerning him, if anything has to be said, it will be said where St. Winnoc is treated, at the 6th of November. Cf. meanwhile at the 26th of October, vol. XI, p. 792 F.

Bl. Rainerius, a lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor, from Borgo San Sepolcro in Umbria, whose cult was confirmed by Pius VII in the year 1802, is solemnly honoured on the 5th of November among the Friars Minor and the Conventuals. But since he died on the 1st of November (1304), we have already treated of him, Acta Sanctorum, November vol. I, pp. 390–402.

SS. Rasius and Anastasius, whose feast is now kept on the 5th of November Acta Sanctorum, November vol. II, 1, p. 218.: we have no Acts of them. Nothing therefore is to be added to what that excellent man D. Papebroch brought forward at the 13th of May Acta Sanctorum, May vol. VII, p. 763..

Rogatus. See above under Apuleius.

St. Sabina, grandmother of St. Cuthbert, that most celebrated bishop of Lindisfarne, is commemorated at this day by the Scottish Menology of Thomas Dempster In A. P. Forbes, Kalendars of Scottish Saints, p. 217., the Sacrum Gynecaeum of Arthur du Moustier, and Ferrari in his Catalogue of the Saints. That this Sabina was Irish by birth, the daughter of Muiredach, who held sway with royal power over all Ireland, and that Cuthbert himself first saw the light in Ireland, is related by not a few writers, who tell much of Sabina's fortunes; the older of them are John of Fordun in his Scotichronicon Book III, c. 51 (ed. W. Goodall, Edinburgh, 1757, vol. I, p. 158). and John of Tynemouth [Cf. Nova Legenda Anglie, ed. Carl Horstmann (Oxford, 1901; concerning which edition see Analecta Bollandiana, vol. XXI, pp. 85–88), vol. I, Introduction.] in his Sanctilogium or, under the title by which it is better known, the Nova Legenda (sanctorum) Anglie Ed. 1516, fol. lxix; ed. Horstmann, vol. I, p. 216., and the more recent ones John Colgan Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, p. 690. and, in our own times, His Eminence Cardinal Moran Irish Saints in Great Britain, pp. 268–71. and John O'Hanlon of blessed memory [Lives of the Irish Saints, vol. III, pp. 858–67. Other writers who champion the opinion of the Irish birth of St. Cuthbert or think it probable, see cited ibid., p. 859; those who deny it, ibid., p. 861.]. But a few years ago the distinguished George Phillips, one of the professors of St. Cuthbert's College in the city of Durham, clearly demonstrated that all those martyrologists and writers drew what they report of Sabina, Cuthbert's mother, whether directly or through other intermediaries, from one source St. Cuthbert's native Country, in The Ushaw Magazine, 1892, pp. 176–201., namely from the work entitled Libellus de nativitate sancti Cuthberti de historiis Hybernensium exceptus et translatus, first

published in the year 1838 Among the Publications of the Surtees Society, VIII (Miscellanea biographica).. But the oldest of the codices containing this Life do not exceed the 14th century in age, and its anonymous author himself professes that he lived in the 12th century and that what he relates about the birth of St. Cuthbert had been entirely unknown among the English down to his own time Cf. Phillips, l. c., p. 187.. And in truth very many of those who wrote about St. Cuthbert, far older than that age, whose company is led by the Venerable Bede, are deeply silent about his Irish stock. Moreover, that anonymous Libellus has heaped together things so absurd, and even contradictory among themselves, that it appears utterly unworthy of credit at first sight, so to speak [Cf. Acta Sanctorum, at the place shortly to be cited, and especially the distinguished Phillips, l. l.]. Accordingly our Henschen, concerning the opening of the Life of St. Cuthbert as it is read in Capgrave (which, namely, is wholly excerpted from that Libellus), declares without hesitation, in indignation at it Acta Sanctorum, March vol. III, p. 95, n. 10 at the end.: "Certainly Bede would not wish these ragged patches to be sewn onto his illustrious purple work,

whose empty forms will be fashioned like a sick man's dreams, so that neither foot nor head is rendered to a single shape.

Let the Irish keep their wailing Nulluhoc" (which, namely, they say was Cuthbert's Irish name) "and leave Cuthbert to the Anglo-Saxons… If, however, the Irish have from ancient writers other monuments than those brought forward by Colgan" (but they bring forward none other), "we should certainly not wish to stand in their way." Thus Henschen.

Nor is there indeed any reason, now that the Libellus itself has been published, for departing from his opinion, especially since not a few things are read in it worthy of much greater reproof than those in Capgrave; which the distinguished Phillips has shown at length. Hence no place at all seems to be assigned to this Sabina, not only among the saints honoured by legitimate cult in the Catholic Church, but not even among the women whose memory has been preserved by any probable document.

St. Solomon III, king of Brittany, is listed today by Bucelinus in the Menologium Benedictinum; he has been treated at the 25th of June, vol. VI, pp. 248–59.

A certain Sechtruda is enumerated among the saints of Capua in the martyrology of Greven, which has the following: In Capua, a city of Campania, the natal day of Saints Mary, Secunda, Sechtruda and Quartus. As we have said under the other names, Quartus alone belongs to the church of Capua; Marcia and Secunda are derived from disordered copies of the Hieronymian martyrology. I judge it probable that Sechtruda crept into the text from a necrological note written in the margins of the martyrology. For no one besides the compiler of Greven's martyrology has heard anything of any blessed woman of this name.

Secunda, who in most Hieronymian codices is so placed that you would call her a companion of Mark the bishop and, besides, a Capuan, which also occurs in several Usuardine copies Du Sollier, Martyrologium Usuardi, p. 654., more probably fell out of the preceding entry and was repeated by the scribes. Concerning her, then, unless someone demonstrates that the matter is to be explained otherwise, read what has been said at the 4th of November.

In the ancient Acts of St. Clement of Ancyra [Acta Sanctorum, January vol. II, pp. 460–70; the metaphrase, ibid., pp. 470–83; which has been published in Greek, P. G., vol. CXIV, pp. 816–93.] a pious woman Sophia is praised, who adopted the holy martyr as her son when in the tenth year of his age he had been bereft of his mother Euphrosyna [By the Metaphrast she too is called Sophia; which error the compiler of the menaea renewed.], and performed other illustrious deeds. Although Arthur inserted her in his Gynecaeum at this day Sacrum Gynecaeum, p. 440., we are compelled to pass her over, since nowhere among the Greeks or Latins is a memorial day assigned to her in the sacred fasti.

St. Spinutus, confessor in the territory of Toul, is commemorated today by Du Saussay and Ferrari. But it is manifest that he is none other than St. Spinulus, concerning whom see at the 1st of November among those passed over, vol. I, p. 9.

The dedication of St. Theodore ἐν τοῖς Σπαρακίου or Σφωρακίου is commemorated today in the synaxaria of the Greeks Synaxarium of the Church of Constantinople, p. 197.. That is the celebrated church of which the emperor Justinian speaks, Novel III, 1: ὅ τε σεβάσμιος οἶκος τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος Θεοδώρου παρὰ Σφωρακίου τοῦ τῆς ἐνδόξου μνήμης ἀνιερώθη. Sphoracius the patrician held the consulship in the year 412 and was present at the council of Chalcedon Du Cange, Constantinopolis christiana (Paris ed.), p. 139..

In the martyrology of Benevento, now Vatican codex 5949, there is announced today the natal day of St. Trophima, virgin and martyr Du Sollier, Martyrologium Usuardi, p. 653., who also occurs in other calendars, for example in the Capuan one which Michael the Monk published: On the nones of November, of St. Trophimena, virgin and martyr Sanctuarium Capuanum, p. 410.. Gaetani also assigns her feast to the nones of November Vitae SS. Siculorum, vol. I, pp. 131–35; animadversions, pp. 108–11.. But our J. Pinius learnedly illustrated her Acts on the day on which she is venerated at Minori in Italy, namely the 5th of July.

The deposition of St. Vigor, bishop of Bayeux, is commemorated today by the Hagenoy copy of Usuard, and the church of Bayeux now celebrates his memory under the rite of a greater double. He has been treated at the 1st of November, vol. I, pp. 287–306; cf. ibid., 290, num. 14.

St. Zachary the pope was inscribed today in the martyrology of the monastery of Syon in Middlesex [Translated into English by Richard Whytford, The Martiloge in Englysshe (1526), fol. cxxii; second edition by Procter and Dewick (London, 1893), p. 174.], for no other reason, surely, than that the same day is sacred to a saint of the same name, namely the father of John the Baptist.