Secundinus
Acta Sanctorum, May 21
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ON SAINT SECUNDINUS,

MARTYR AT CORDOBA IN SPAIN.

From Usuard and more recent [authors].

[Commentary]

Secundus, Martyr at Cordoba in Spain (S.)

G. H.

The most ancient and chief memory of this holy
Martyr is in the Martyrologies of Usuard
written by hand and printed,
in these few words: At Cordoba [the natal day of] S. Secundinus
the Martyr. Bellinus, Maurolycus, Greven, Felicius, Molanus,
Canisius, Galesinius, and others copy from Usuard,
together with the present-day tables of the Roman Martyrology. Peter
de Natalibus in book 11 of the Catalogus chap. 130 num. 145 reports the same
thus: Secundinus the Martyr on the same day (XII Kalends
of June) suffered at Cordoba. Ambrose Morales in book
10 of the General Chronicle of Spain chap. 25 asserts that nothing else
is known of him, than that he was a Martyr at Cordoba. In
the title however he hints that he seems to have suffered at the same time as the others
referred to in the preceding chapters of the said book X, namely in the tenth
persecution begun by Maximian and Diocletian. John
Marietta also writes that he seems to have suffered under the Heathens.
John Vasaeus in the Chronicle of Spain composed in the year MDL,
when he had treated about the year CCCVI of the persecution of Diocletian,
reports Martyrs slain in various cities of Spain,
and among them more than forty killed at Cordoba with S.
Secundinus, of whom he hands down some [as having suffered] under Decius, others in the times
of the Goths crowned with martyrdom by the Arians; so that it is wonderful
that some attribute [it] to Vasaeus, as if he in the year CCCVI
asserted that S. Secundus died as a Martyr. Martin de
Roa, in his little book on the Antiquity and authority of the holy
Martyrs of Cordoba published in Latin, says about B. Secundinus
and Sandalius that beyond the bare name (about
which in the Roman and other Martyrologies, and the monuments of the
Cordoban Church) there is little or nothing.
Meanwhile D. Francisco de Reinoso, Bishop of Cordoba,
who died in the year MDCI, taking thought for the spiritual
solace of those reciting [the Office], ordered his own readings
to be ascribed to each, in which those very things which had been found
were inscribed. Thus from the said Martin de
Roa, Tamayo-Salazar in the Hispanic Martyrology, where
he himself reviews these Acts of S. Secundinus, as the said
Martin in his book on the Saints of Cordoba in Spanish. They can
be read in the authors themselves, since they can everywhere be applied
to all Martyrs. In the Church of Cuenca this same
Saint is venerated on May XXXIX [sic].
