Martyria or Martyrius
Acta Sanctorum, May 21
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ON ST. MARTYRIA OR MARTYRIUS,

MARTYR AT RAVENNA IN ITALY.

Likewise from various Martyrologies.

[Commentary]

Martyria or Martyrius, Martyr at Ravenna in Italy (S.)

G. H.

We were received in the year MDCLX at Ravenna with the greatest
humanity, where whatever was preserved concerning the Saints
of that city in the archive of the Cathedral
Church was brought to us, who would receive it,
if we found anything pertaining to these our studies.
But there was nothing conducive to commending the veneration of S. Martyria or Martyrius.
Then four years after our departure the sacred Memories of ancient
Ravenna were published in a sizable Italian volume at Venice by Hieronymus
Fabri, Theological Canon of the Metropolitan Church:
but neither did he find anything anywhere here, not even the name.
What therefore is had elsewhere we set forth, and we propose [it] to the
Ravennese themselves for further discussion. The most ancient
copy of the Hieronymian Martyrology, written nearly
a thousand years ago, which we restored to the Epternacenses,
has thus in the second place: At Ravenna [the natal day of] Martyria.
Indeed these things are missing in three other copies of the same Martyrology,
but Rabanus more than eight hundred years ago
wrote in his: And at Ravenna [the natal day of] Martyria. The same things plainly
are read in the Ms. Martyrology of the Church of Aix-la-Chapelle.
Moreover two ancient Mss., the Rhinoviensian in Helvetia
and the Richenoviensian or of Augia-divitis near Constance
in Suevia, begin this day thus: At Ravenna
[the natal day of] Martyrius. But on the following day XXII May in the Martyrology printed
under the name of Bede, the natal day of S. Martyria at Ravenna
is annotated.
