Pachomius
Acta Sanctorum, May 6
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ON SS. PACHOMIUS, HILARION, MAMAS AND PATRICIUS

AMONG THE GREEKS.

[Commentary]

Pachomius, among the Greeks (S.)

Hilarion, among the Greeks (S.)

Mamas, among the Greeks (S.)

Patricius, among the Greeks (S.)

D. P.

The double Greek MSS. of Turin of the Duke
of Savoy and the other Milanese of the Ambrosian
library, on this VI of May suggest the memory
of our holy Fathers
Pachomius, Hilarion and Mamas. But
the Dijon Menaea of Pierre-François Chiflet refer them thus:
Saints Mamas, Pachomius and Hilarion rested in peace:
and these verses are added:

Ἱλαρίωνι
καὶ
Παχομίῳ
Μάμας
Συνεκεδεδήμην
τὴν
καλὴν
ἐκδημίαν.

With Hilarion and Pachomius Mamas
Migrated by the beautiful migration.

And soon after is joined S. Patricius, with nothing added, whom
nevertheless we join to others, with this premised admonition. Mamas
we knew hitherto only as a Martyr: but now
we have another, who rested in peace, and we suspect that he
was a monk, equally as the companions joined to him, and from the Lives of the Fathers
or some part of them now lost once received;
just as under that phrase many, whom we now know from the same Lives,
we judge to have been inscribed in the Synaxaria. Of the great
Pachomius, Abbot in Egypt, we shall commemorate
on day XIV of May, when also he is praised in the Menology
of Emperor Basil, but by other Greeks on the following day:
But the memory of S. Hilarion the Wonderworker
was illustrated by us on March XXVIII, although by the printed Menaea
and Synaxarium of Clermont it is referred to day IV
of May. But we hardly dare to suspect them to be those who are noted here
with S. Mamas, unless perhaps some common translation
fell to them, which made them be commemorated together among the sacred matters
on this day: but while no indication of this is brought forward,
we prefer to opine them inhabitants of one monastery or laura, and buried
in the same place.
