Aquilinus and Victorinus
Acta Sanctorum, May 16
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ON SS. AQUILINUS AND VICTORINUS

MARTYRS IN ISAURIA.

[Commentary]

Aquilinus, Martyr in Isauria (S.)

Victorinus, Martyr in Isauria (S.)

G. H.

Isauria, a region of Asia, is part of southern
Galatia, bordering Pisidia, where also is the city Isaura,
in the Councils called Isauropolis: for Ilvarius
at the first Constantinopolitan, & Athius
at Chalcedon were Bishops of Isauropolis as participants.
In this Isauria, either region, or perhaps even
city, flourished these two Martyrs: from whom three apographs of the
Martyrology of Jerome thus auspicate this day:
XVII Kalends of June in Isauria of Aquilinus, [Memory in ancient fasts] Victorianus;
which the same are had everywhere in all Martyrologies printed &
written by hand, with today's Roman Martyrology.
Usuard writes these things, also in the first place: In Isauria
the province natale of SS. Aquilinus & Victorianus,
whose deeds are had. The same are read in Ado
& others: & in Petrus de Natalibus toward the end of book
XI; where he enumerates Saints, whose deeds he could not obtain;
meanwhile no. 141 he relates these things: Aquilinus & Victorianus
Martyrs, whose deeds are had, in
Syria, indeed Isauria, the province they suffered XVII Kalends
of June. In a similar way as here for Isauria, is written
Syria, so also elsewhere Isauria, Esaurea & Caesarea is read.
As also for Victorianus, Victorinus, Victurinus
& Victoriana is found. They are separated in the most ancient
MS. of Echternach by the common particle elsewhere from the three Martyrs,
of whom we shall soon treat: who, with the said particle
elsewhere omitted, in other apographs of the Martyrology of Jerome to these
two are joined, & one or another in other Fasts, as
will soon appear. In MS. of Tamlachta are indicated Aquilinus
& Victorinus; as also in the Gellonensian volume 13 of the spicilegium
edited by d'Achery. In MS. Florarium on the day XVI March,
are reported SS. Aquilinus & Victorianus Martyrs,
whom we then deferred to this day. Are also
these two Martyrs Aquilinus & Victorianus on the day
following XVII May, inscribed in the ancient Martyrology
of Cassino written in Lombardic character. [also 17 May,] Likewise on
the day XIV June in the ancient Calendar before the book of S.
Isidore on Ecclesiastical Offices, [& 14 June.] preserved at Rome among
the Fathers of the Congregation of the Oratory. The Acts indeed cited by Usuard
& others citing him, have nowhere hitherto appeared.
