Polyeuctus
Acta Sanctorum, May 21
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ON SS. POLYEUCTUS, VICTORIUS, DONATUS, QUINTUS, LUCUSA,

MARTYRS AT CAESAREA IN CAPPADOCIA.

Likewise from the Hieronymian Martyrology.

[Commentary]

Polyeuctus, Martyr at Caesarea in Cappadocia (S.)

Victorius, Martyr at Caesarea in Cappadocia (S.)

Donatus, Martyr at Caesarea in Cappadocia (S.)

Quintus, Martyr at Caesarea in Cappadocia (S.)

Lucusa, Martyr at Caesarea in Cappadocia (S.)

BY THE AUTHOR G. H.

This class of five Martyrs also is referred in the
ancient Martyrologies of S. Jerome:
of which three are recalled by Ado
and Notker with these words: At Caesarea
of Cappadocia [the natal day of] SS. Polyeuctus, Victorius,
Donatus. The same is read in today's Roman
Martyrology, and others. But in the copies of Usuard,
in place of Polyeuctus, is read Polioti, and Poliucti as also
in the ancient Capuan Breviary and various manuscripts and
printed Martyrologies. In the Ms. Aix-la-Chapelle are the names
Eutus, Victor, Donatus: in the Ms. Cologne of S. Mary
ad Gradus, Victorius, Donatus: in the Ms. Paris of Labbé
Victurus, Donatus: in the Ms. Augustan of S. Udalric, Inchoatus,
Veturus, Donatus. In the most ancient Epternacensian
these things are had: In Caesarea of Cappadocia, [the natal day of] Polieuctus,
Victor, Donatus, Quintus, Locusta. The last named is referred to in the last
place, is missing in the Corbeian, and is written in the Lucensian and
Blumianus Lucusa, but in the first place Policutus, instead of
Polieutus. In the Blumianus there is moreover the name of Victoria as is also read in the Ms. Lucensian Calendar. Again
Polyeuctus or Polioctus, in Caesarea of Cappadocia,
is referred on May XXII, in the same copies of S. Jerome
and in the Appendix of Ado and others. Some relics of S. Victorius
are kept at Bologna among the Conventual Franciscans,
as Masini indicates at this day in his Bononia perlustrata; but
that they are of this Cappadocian Saint would be difficult to prove. The day was
assumed because Victorius was inscribed in the tables of the Roman
Martyrology.

ON ST. TIMOTHY THE DEACON,

MARTYR IN BRITAIN.

From various Martyrologies.

[Commentary]

Timothy, Deacon Martyr in Britain (S.)

G. H.

This last is recounted in four copies of the
Hieronymian Martyrology, likewise in the Mss.
Richenoviensian, Barberinian, and the other of the Queen
of Sweden: where these things are had: In Britain the natal day of Timothy
the Deacon. There is added in the other Corbeian Ms.,
And elsewhere of Timothy, whom we said above suffered in Mauritania.
Hence one might rightly doubt whether Britannia
has not been made out of Mauritania.
