ON SS. ATTICUS AND LUDDULUS AND SEPTIMUS AND JULIUS, MARTYRS, LUDDULUS BEING ALSO CALLED LUGDULUS,
FROM THE HIERONYMIAN MARTYROLOGIES.
In one of the first four centuries.
CommentaryAtticus, Martyr. (S.)
Luddulus or Lugdulus, Martyr. (S.)
Septimus, Martyr. (S.)
Julius, Martyr. (S.)
BY J. B.
The ancient Martyrology published by Luc d'Achery and inscribed with the name of St. Jerome announces St. Atticus and his Companions, martyrs, at this day in this manner: And elsewhere, of Atticus, Luddulus, Septimus, Julius, their place of combat not being expressed. The Labbe Martyrology, given by us in volume VII of June, mentions Septimus alone, without doubt mutilated in this part: on the contrary, the one which Fiorentini published adds four Companions to Atticus; with their names somewhat dislocated, it has thus: And elsewhere, of Atticus, Budduli, Luddoni, Septimus, Julius. The Corbie Martyrology in the same Fiorentini agrees entirely with d'Achery's. Fiorentini adds that other codices too were consulted by him, in which Lugdulus or Luddolus is written in place of Lugdunius, whence it is manifest that the name of Luddulus was variously written and corrupted, and a suspicion, not an empty one, is suggested to me that by a similar corruption it came about that one and the same Luddulus was wrongly divided, through the unskilfulness of copyists, into Budduli and Luddonus; which the very great affinity of the names Budduli and Luddulus also seems to suggest. It appears therefore that we should stand by the d'Achery and Corbie copies rather than by Fiorentini's, which assigns four Companions to St. Atticus. When or where these Martyrs shed their blood for Christ, there has been nothing from which it might be permitted even lightly to conjecture: I have therefore not assigned them to a determined century, omitting besides any mention of the place where they fell.