Revocatus the Martyr
Acta Sanctorum, May 29
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ON S. REVOCATUS THE MARTYR

HONORED AT GENOA IN LIGURIA.

From the Proper of the Genoese Church.

[Commentary]

Revocatus, Martyr, honored at Genoa (S.)

G. H.

In the Calendar of the Saints, who
are celebrated in the particular Churches of Genoa,
printed with the proper Offices
of the Genoese Church,
it is indicated that this XXIX of May
is celebrated the feast of S. Revocatus
the Martyr, in the Church of the monastery
of S. Benignus; and that there are had
his Relics. We were
ourselves in the year MDCLXII in the said monastery, and these few things
then we noted about him: The body of S. Revocatus
the Martyr there rests under one of the altars, and his
feast is kept on XXIX May with a double rite: concerning whom
nothing is found written there. If anything about him ever
existed; it together with the other monuments of the same monastery
perished, the civil discords once raging or lately the pestilence, as
the most reverend Abbot of the said monastery, Benedict
Carrega, related to us, by whose solicitude certain relics of the old archive
were preserved and digested into order. We have given
hitherto in the four prior months various Martyrs
Revocatus, at Carthage and in the rest of Africa,
at Catania in Sicily, at Smyrna in Asia, and elsewhere having suffered. That some
of these was translated to Genoa, as it is not impossible,
so it would be affirmed without foundation. It would be even more rash,
from the day on which this Genoese one is venerated, to draw a conjecture,
that he is the Roman Restitutus, with the name slightly
changed to Revocatus: wherefore him, as I find him, thus I leave,
to be named separately with the Saints of this day in
the present work.
