[767] Hist. Eccl., 6, 39, 4.
[768] It is printed in Migne, Patr. Lat., xviii. 878.
[769] Nos autem pæne omnium martyrum distinctis per dies singulos passionibus collecta in uno codice nomina habemus atque cotidianis diebus in eorum veneratione missarum solemnia agimus. Non tamen in eodem volumine quis qualiter sit passus indicatur, sed tantummodo nomen, locus et dies passionis ponitur. Unde fit, ut multi ex diversis terris atque provinciis per dies, ut prædixi, singulos cognoscantur martyrio coronati.—Greg. M., Registrum, 8, 29.
[770] The passage is capable of receiving various interpretations. See Duchesne, Prolegg. ad Mart. Hieron. in Acta SS., Nov. II. xi., xlvii. The words are as follows: “Passiones martyrum legite constanter, quas inter alia in epistola S. Hieronymi ad Chromatium et Heliodorum destinta procul dubio reperietis, qui per totum orbem terrarum floruere, ut sancta invitatio vos provocans ad cœlestia regna perducat.” Cassiodor., Instit. Div. Lit., 32. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxx. 1147.
[771] Beda, Liber Retractionis in Acta Ap., c. i. Migne, Patr. Lat., xcii. 997: Liber martyrologii, qui B. Hieronymi nomine ac præfatione intitulatur, quamvis Hieronymus illius libri non auctor sed interpres, Eusebius autem auctor exstitisse videatur.
[772] Hilduin., Epist. ad Ludov. Pium. Migne, Patr. Lat., cvi. 19.
[773] [Since the appearance of the second edition of Dr Kellner’s Heortologie, a work of the first importance on the Roman martyrology has been published, Les martyrologes historiques du moyen âge, par Don. Henri Quentin, bénédictin de Solesmes, Paris, 1908, Lecoffre. Trans.]
[774] B. Krusch (Neues Archiv für ältere deutsche Gesch., xx. [1895] 437-440 and xxvi. [1901] 349-389) is in favour of Autun as the place of its origin. But what is gained?
[775] Grisar (Gesch. Roms., 291) thinks it may belong to the time of Xystus III. (433-446).
[776] Aug. Urbain has attempted to reconstruct the original Martyrologium Romanum, as it was at the end of the fifth century from the Hieronymianum Harnack: Texte und Unters., vi. 3, Leipzig, 1901.