Jejunius
Acta Sanctorum, May 25
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ON SAINT JEJUNIUS
MONK OF THE ORDER OF S. BASIL IN CALABRIA.
from Italian writers more recent.

[Commentary]

Jejunius, Monk of S. Basil in Calabria (S.)

G. H.

Hieracium, commonly Gerace, a city of Greater once
Greece, now of further Calabria, from the year
CCCXXX Episcopal, to which was united the Episcopate
of Locri, from whose ruins much it grew,
and of Greek once rite and obedience was unto [at Gerace is said born,] the year
MCCCCLXVII; in which the Greeks' rites abdicated, it received
the ceremonies of the Roman Church. From this Hieracian city
to have been B. Jejunius, of the Order of S. Basil a monk, says
Ferdinand Ughelli, in tome 9 of Sacred Italy in the Hieracian
Bishops under the beginning of column 545. Antonius Beatillus
of the Society of Jesus a Priest, in the Saints of the kingdom of Naples illustrating
long versed, of the same Saint these things to us wrote:
S. Jejunius's memory is had in the Eulogies of the Bishops
of Hieracium, which manuscript with me are preserved,
and chiefly in the Life of the Most Illustrious Brother John
Tirsaeus, from Abbot of S. Philip of the Order of S. Basil,
by the Clergy elected Bishop of Hieracium, and by Clement
V confirmed in the year MCCCXII. [the church and mountain of S. Jejunius.] There is also a mountain
most lofty, stony, of ascent difficult near the city,
a mile and a half from the castle distant the North
toward: on its summit is a church half-ruined,
which is called of S. Jejunius: by which also name the mountain
itself unto this day is called. These Beatillus.
David Romaeus in the Index of the Saints, who born or buried
are in the kingdom of Naples page 404 among the Hieracian Saints
recounts S. Jejunius from the society of Divine Basil, [The cult 25 May,]
and to be venerated says on the XIII Kalends of June. Hieronymus Marafiotto
of Polistena book 5 of the Chronicle of Calabria folio 307, enumerates
also the Saints of Calabria, and among those names S. Jejunius
Confessor of Hieracium. Ferrari, in the Catalogue
general at this day; At Locri, he says, in Greater
Greece of S. Jejunius a monk, of the Order of S. Basil, and cites
the tablets of the Hieracian Church, where (as he says in the Catalogue
of the Saints of Italy) great he has veneration:
and him asserts with wonderful of life sanctity to have shone, and
to seem about the times of SS. Nilus, Fantinus and others
to have flourished. Of these S. Nilus lived in the century of Christ
X, and is venerated the XXVI of September. [the time of his life.] But to Fantinus the day
XXXI of July sacred is, whose times equally to us uncertain
are, as the age of Jejunius.
