The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (of 16). Baring-Gould Sabine

that he accompanied S. Denys of Paris, or S. Quentin of Amiens, on his mission, about the year 245. S. Lucian was accompanied by his friends, Maximian and Julian. They suffered in different places, and on different days; but they were laid by faithful disciples in one tomb, and are commemorated together. S. Lucian is called in some calendars a priest; but in an ancient one of the ninth century, he is styled a bishop, and such has been the constant tradition at Beauvais.

      In art, he is represented holding his head in his hands.

S. PATIENS, B(about a.d. 152.)

      [Roman Martyrology; Martyrologies of Cologne, of Rabanus, Notker, &c. His life is traditional.]

      S. Patiens is said to have been a disciple of S. John the Evangelist, and to have been sent by him into Gaul. He settled at Metz, where he became the fourth Bishop.

S. ATTICUS, PATR. OF CONSTANTINOPLE(a. d. 425.)

      [Roman Martyrology, that of Usuardus and the German Martyrologies. Authorities for his life, very numerous: Socrates, Sozomen, Synesius, Palladius, Photius, Nicephorus, Zonaras, &c.]

      Atticus, a man of gentle spirit and conciliatory manners, succeeded S. Chrysostom in the see of Constantinople. He, at first, refused to admit the name of his predecessor into the diptychs; but was afterwards moved to yield, in accordance with the Latin Church, which refused communion with the see of Constantinople till the righteousness of the cause of the great Chrysostom had been acknowledged. Atticus was engaged in correspondence on this subject with S. Cyril of Alexandria, who vehemently resented the admission of the name of Chrysostom, till he also yielded at the instance of Isidore of Pelusium.

      1

      This only exists in an interpolated condition.

      2

      Euseb., "Hist. Eccl.," lib. iv., cap. xv.

      3

      S. Paulinus was born a. d. 353, and elected Bishop of Nola a. d. 409. Prudentius was born a. d. 348.

      4

      Ep. xii., ad Se

1

This only exists in an interpolated condition.

2

Euseb., "Hist. Eccl.," lib. iv., cap. xv.

3

S. Paulinus was born a. d. 353, and elected Bishop of Nola a. d. 409. Prudentius was born a. d. 348.

4

Ep. xii., ad Severum, "His holy bones 'neath lasting altars rest."

5

Ep. xii., ad Severum.

6

Hymn xi.

7

"Eccl. Hierarch.," cap. iii.

8

S. Damasus was born a. d. 304, and died a. d. 384.

9

He died a. d. 250; see Ep. i.

10

Born a. d. 160, died a. d. 245.

11

Ep. xxxvii.

12

Lib. xx., contra Faustum, cap. xxi.

13

The copies of these letters prefixed to the Martyrology vary greatly, and their authenticity has been questioned; but the circumstance is probably true.

14

The Hermits, by Rev. C. Kingsley, p. 153, 154.

15

This passage has been quoted by some to show that at this period special vestments were not in general use for the Eucharist, as an argument against their present use. But it by no means appears from the passage quoted that Fulgentius did not wear Eucharistic vestments. It simply says that he wore at Mass the habit he lived and slept in. This is what monks and friars do now; they put the vestment over the habit.

16

Kingsley, The Hermits, p. 4, 6.

17

The custom of blessing bread and distributing it amongst the faithful, prevails still in the French Church, as may be seen at any festival in a church of importance. The blessed bread is not to be confounded with the Holy Eucharist. It is taken about the church in baskets, and is a sort of sweet-cake. This is a relic of the ancient Love Feasts or Agapæ.

18

Peter de Nat.

19

2 Cor. xii. 16.

20

2 Cor. vii. 6.

21

2 Cor. xi. 13.

22

Zenas and Peter de Nat. The latter does not say that S. Paul visited Crete, but that he sent Titus there. S. Paul says, "I left thee in Crete," Tit. i. 4, showing that he did visit that island with Titus.

23

Homil. i. in Tit.

24

Tit. iii. 12.

25

Tit. iv. 13.

26

Isa. xli. 1.

27

Isa. xli. 9, 10, 17.

28

John xii. 21.

29

2 Tim. iv. 10.

30

Hist., lib. iv. c. 10.

31

On the Blackwater; there is no city there now, but numerous traces of an ancient settlement, and an old chapel marks the site, in the parish of Bradwell.

32

Lastingham, near Pickering, in Yorkshire.

33

Bede iii. 25.