Aichard

The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 10, September · S. Aichard, Ab. of fumieges ; circ . a.d. 687.

S. Aichard, Ab. of fumieges ; circ . a.d. 687.

SS. Emilias and Jeremias, MM. at Cordova; a.d. 853.

S. Leuthardt, Count, C. of Clcves ; end ofgth cent.

S. Catharine Flisca, IV. at Genoa; a.d. 1510.

S. NICOMEDE, P.M.

(date doubtful.)

[Roman Martyrology. That attributed to S. Jerome, those of Bede, Notker, Ado, Wandelbert, &c. York, Sarum, Hereford, Reformed Angli- can Kalendars. Authorities : — Mention in the Martyrologies taken from the apocryphal Acts of SS. Nereus and Achilles. Other acts are given by Mombritius which throws the date of his martyrdom much later.]

E fame of S. Nicomede is better established than the facts of his martyrdom. A catacomb at Rome was called after him, a church dedicated to him which gave a title to one of the parishes of Rome, and his name is found in the most ancient kalendars. But no reliance whatever can be placed on either of the narratives of his martyrdom. According to the first,

1 Martyred in the age of Antoninus, under a Governor Antiochus. Her sufferings converted the Governor’s wife. Under Antoninus, lallius Bassus was Governor of M;csia. a.d. 161 he was appointed Imperial legate. He married Clementina, of the Flavian family. In the cemetery of S. Luclna there has been recently found an in- scription in memory of lallius Bassus and Ccetia Clementina, his wife, and of Julia Clementina, their daughter, 11 in pace.” If lallius, called Antiochus in the Martyro- logies, was the Governor under whom S. Melitina suffered, her death converted not only the v/ife but the Governor as well.

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sept. i5.] S. Mctxwius , Others. 247

There is nothing in this narrative which could arouse suspicion that it was not trustworthy, except only the fact of it being found in the acts of SS Nereus and Achilles, which are worthless invention.

Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness

Eodem die depositio sancti Aichardi Abbatis.