Eleutherius of Arce in Latium
Acta Sanctorum, May 29
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ON SAINT ELEUTHERIUS OF ARCE IN LATIUM.

From the Roman Martyrology and Ferrarius.

[Commentary]

Eleutherius, of Arce in Latium (S.)

BY THE AUTHOR G. H.

[1] Arcanum commonly Arce a town
of ancient Latium, in the present kingdom
Neapolitan, upon a hill near
the river Melfa between Arpino
and Aquino, from the former by four,
from the latter by seven miles distant;
by Cicero, whose there an estate
was, is mentioned in the epistles
to Quintus his brother book 3 ep. 1, book 5 ep. 1 and book 16.
His words Cluver adduces in book 3 of Ancient Italy p.
1046. This place honored by his death and Ecclesiastical cult
S. Eleutherius, [Memory in the Roman Martyrol.] of whom the Roman Martyrology
this XXIX May these has: Of Arce in Latium S. Eleutherius
the Confessor. Of whom, adds Baronius, the old
monuments of the Church of Aquino. But these we could not
hitherto obtain, and Ferrarius in his Annotation
at this day says, the proper Acts of S. Eleutherius
himself not to have seen, although them from the Bishop of Aquino not once,
through others however, he demanded. What however from the inhabitants'
relation he received, these are.

[2] Eleutherius, by nation an Englishman, of SS. Grimoald
and Fulk the brother, [The eulogy from Ferrarius,] together with them from England into Italy
for the sake of pilgrimage came. But when the holy places
of Rome with much devotion he had visited, and
to Aquino with his brothers had come; near Arcanum
a town of Latium he settled: where famous for miracles
by a holy end he rested. There stands a church to his
name dedicated: to which several infirm flock together,
and of cures to render thanks are wont. In a Ms. Vatican
of the Church of S. Peter is indicated S. Eleutherius, but
related XXVI May.

[3] Of S. Fulk we treated XXII May. His body is
in a town, San Padre called, of the diocese of Aquino, at the boundary
of the Kingdom of Naples, which town is distant from Arcanum by a few
only paces' thousands: [the brothers of the Saint.] more closely even to the same lies adjacent
a village commonly called San Lotiero, which of S. Eleutherius
to be I would scarcely indeed doubt. The other brother S.
Grimoald is venerated XXIX September at Pontecorvo,
formerly Fregellae, between Ceprano and Minturnae
in the kingdom of Naples, where the Bishops of Aquino
often resided. The memory furthermore of S. Eleutherius is inscribed
also in the Anglican Martyrology, but at the day third
of June, [Memory 3 June.] whose author Arcanum or Arke places in
Apulia, and there says S. Eleutherius from a journey to Jerusalem
returned to have holily died. Which by conjecture
seem written. Nicholas Bishop of Sarsina in
the Poetic Martyrology him with this distich adorns.

With the Saints hastening, from his paternal a pilgrim, shores,
      With his brothers, from Latium he ascends to the stars of the pole.
