Eusebius
Acta Sanctorum, May 25
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ON SAINT EUSEBIUS
MARTYR IN THE EAST.

[Commentary]

Eusebius, Martyr in the East (S.)

G. H.

We proceed with the four ancient transcripts of the Hieronymian
Martyrology: in which
these few things are read: In the East of Eusebius,
or Eusebii. They mention the same, but
without mention of the East, the Mss. of Aachen
of the primary Church, the Augsburg of St. Udalric, and the Paris
of Labbe.

The name of the East is often in these calendars, and as much
as hitherto we could investigate, it is taken for places less known
in further Asia, namely Armenia, Mesopotamia,
Assyria, and the bordering and frontier places of the ancient
Roman Empire in the East. The later Greeks, at Constantinople
and in the parts of Europe, ὰπὸ τῆς ἀνατολῆς, from the East,
by the aphaeresis of the first syllable most usual to them, Natolia
they called lesser Asia: which ought not to be drawn hither. There was
indeed St. Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, sent into exile
into the Eastern parts, and very many things there from the Arians
suffering; but after the death of the Emperor Constantius to his Church
returned, and on the Kalends of August departed this life: from him
however by us plainly different is reckoned this Martyr Eusebius.
