medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at 10:35 pm, I wrote:
> 1) Basilides of Rome (?)...
> the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology has two listings for a Basilides
> on the Via Aurelia: one, at the fourteenth milestone, entered under
> 10. June and one, at the fifth milestone, entered under 12. June.
>
> ... Ado, followed by Usuard, lists a B. on both dates,
> giving each a distinct set of companions. The companions for 10. June
> (Tripos and Madalis) are place names that have been misunderstood as
> persons. Those for today (Cyrinus and Nabor) are presumably
> interlopers too. Cyrinus may render the recently celebrated Quirinus
> of Siscia; Nabor is surely the Milanese saint of this name who has
> crept in from whatever source Ado drew on for his preceding entry for
> the Milanese Nazarius and Celsus. The early RM not only kept both
> sets of companions on their different days but added to the merriment
> by giving its B. of today a further companion named Nazarius. The
> latter, together with the aforementioned Cyrinus and Nabor remained in
> the RM's entry for B. until the revision of 2001.
My imputation of novelty to the early RM in the case of B.'s companion Nazarius was inaccurate. The Gelasian Sacramentary has a feast of Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius on 12. June; a number of witnesses add Basilides at the head of that list, thus converting the feast to one of Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius. For a visual of such a commemoration, see this page in the St Albans Psalter (earlier twelfth-century):
http://tinyurl.com/4h9t2n
Best again,
John Dillon
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