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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture John Dillon wrote: > > Today (12. June) is the feast day of: > > 1) Basilides of Rome (??). The (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology has > two listings for a Basilides with a martyrium on the Via Aurelia > outside of Rome: one, at the fourteenth milestone, entered under 10. > June and one, at the fifth milestone, entered under 12. June. The > seventh-century _Itinerarium Malmesburiense_, lists only one, at the > twelfth milestone, celebrated on 12. June. Roman liturgical sources > from the seventh century onward also have only one B., celebrated on > this day. > > The ninth-century 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. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius In the York Calendar, a Feast of three lections. John Briggs ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html