[314] Bayle, Dict. Hist.; Molanus, lib. iv., de Hist. Sacrar. S. Mag., cap. xx. p. 428; Thomasium, prefat. 78. The authority usually cited is Abdius, a writer who pretended to have lived in the first century, and whom Bayle styles ‘the most impudent of legendary impostors.’
[315] Paris, Bibliothèque du Roi, MS. 7013, fourteenth century.
[316] Il Perfetto Legendario.
[317] Queen’s Gal.
[318] Bodleian MSS., Oxford.
[319] It is perhaps in reference to this tradition that St. Martha has become the patroness of an order of charitable women, who serve in the hospitals, particularly the military hospitals, in France and elsewhere,—her brother Lazarus having been a soldier.
[320] Fl. Gal.
[321] B. Museum.
[322] It was in the Sp. Gal. in the Louvre, now dispersed.
[323] Santa Maria Penitente.