[2] The Blackfoot Sun-dance, Rev. J. MacLean, Toronto. 1889.
[3] Rel. des Jésuites, 1633, p. 16; 1637, p. 49.
[4] Rel. des Jésuites, 1634, p. 13.
[5] Ibid. pp. 32, 33.
[6] J. A. I. Feb. 1892, p. 287.
[APPENDIX B]
THE MARTYRDOM OF DASIUS
It is difficult to ascertain the facts about this affair. There are first two brief narratives. One is printed in the 'Ménologie de Basile.'[1] The other is in Cod. Ambrosianus, D 74, fol. 65r. M. Cumont thinks that both have a single source—namely, an abridgment of the 'Acts of St. Dasius,' published by himself from the Parisinus 1539, a MS. of the eleventh century. The two brief late narratives say that the Greeks in Dorostolum held a yearly feast of Cronos. Thirty days before the feast they chose a handsome young soldier, clad him in royal raiment, and allowed him thirty days of revelry, after which he was to sacrifice himself at the altar of Cronos. The lot fell on Dasius, who preferred to die as a martyr of Christ. Diocletian and Maximian, hearing of this, commanded him to be put to the sword. The second MS. names Bassus as the officer at whose tribunal Dasius was arraigned.