Bishops
Acta Sanctorum, May 20
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ON THE HOLY BISHOPS

VELLESIUS, AND FAUSTUS, OR FAUSTINUS:

From the Martyrology of St. Jerome.

[Commentary]

Vellesius, Bishop (St.)

Faustinus, or Faustus, Bishop (St.)

G. H.

In the last place these holy Bishops are commemorated in
the ancient transcripts of the Hieronymian Martyrology,
and in the Corbie one printed at Paris these things are had:
The deposition of Vellesius and Faustus the Bishops.
But the former words being omitted in the Epternach one, and
that indeed by the carelessness of the amanuenses, as appears, these things are read:
and of Faustus the Bishops. In the Lucca codex these are handed down:
The deposition of Vellesius and Faustinus the Bishop, so also
in the Blumian MS.: but here, of Faustus the Bishop is read. In
the Prague and Trier MSS. of St. Maximinus and in the Supplement
of Grevenus is indicated the deposition of SS. Vellesius and Faustinus
the Bishops. In the Roman MS. of Cardinal Barberini is related
the deposition of Vallesius and Faustulus the Bishop: but the bare
memory of Faustus is in the Augsburg MS. of St. Udalric and
the Paris one of Labbe. The day before this day is commemorated St. Faustus
the Bishop in the Irish MS. Martyrology of the monastery
of Tamlacht.

[2] It is difficult to determine anything of these Saints, since
neither the place nor the Episcopal See is indicated, nor the time in which
they lived. Florentinius cast his eyes on Faustinus, to
whom St. Cyprian wrote epistle LXVII,
praising him, that he stood against Marcian Bishop of Arles,
who had joined himself to Novatian the author of perfidy,
and at the beginning of the epistle is said: Faustinus our colleague
abiding at Lyons. Thus he, not daring to assert it
for certain.
