[36] So related in one of the lives. The other exaggerates the incident, and says that in the night a poplar tree sprang up.
January 9.
S. Marciana, V. M., in Africa, circ. a.d. 300.
SS. Julian, Basilissa, Celsus, and Companions, MM, in Egypt, circ. a.d. 310.
S. Peter, B. of Sebaste, circ. a.d. 387.
S. Marcellinus, B. of Ancona, circ. a.d. 566.
S. Fillan, Ab., in Scotland, 8th cent.
S. Adrian, Ab., at Canterbury, a.d. 709.
S. Brithwald, Abp. of Canterbury, a.d. 731.
S. MARCIANA, V. M.
(about 300.)
[Roman, Spanish, German, and other Martyrologies. There is some difficulty as to whether the African S. Marciana and the Saint of the same name, honoured at Toledo, are to be distinguished; but probably they are the same. Some hagiographers have supposed that there were two, because at Toledo, S. Marciana is commemorated on July 12th, but that is in all probability the day of her translation. The Acts of the African Saint and the Toledan hymn to S. Marciana, as well as the account of her in the Mozarabic Breviary, relate the same incidents. None of these are of any great authority.]
