medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Tuesday, February 16, 2010, at 1:02 pm, I wrote:
> 2) Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel and Daniel; Pamphilus, Valens,
> Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus (d. ca. 309)...
> Pamphilus (whom Eusebius, himself a bishop of Caesarea, mentions at
> _Mart. Pal._, 5. 4 as the age's most glorious martyr) was clearly the
> most prominent of the group. In Eastern martyrologies and calendars,
> starting with the later fourth-century Syrian Martyrology, he usually
> leads the list, itself somewhat variable, of these martyrs. Relics of
> Pamphilus and of some of the other Palestinians were among those
> placed in the first Hagia Sophia in Constantinople at the time of its
> consecration. In the Latin West, the entry for the group in the
> (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology, where Pamphilus also leads the list,
> is badly garbled (including, among other developments, the
> transmogrifications of Caesareae into Fissinari and Porphyrius into
> Perfidus or Perfidius [!] and an increase in the number of the
> Egyptians from five to five thousand).
>
> The earlier ninth-century martyrologist Florus of Vienne, followed in
> these respects by St. Ado and by Usuard, enters only Julian and the
> Egyptians under today and enters Pamphilus under 1. June.
Er, Florus of Lyon. Apologies for the slip.
--JD
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