Egbert

The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 04, April · S. Egbert, /*., Mk . in Iona , a.d. 729.

S. Egbert, /*., Mk . in Iona , a.d. 729.

S. William Firmat, P.H. at Mortain,in Normandy , a.d. 1090.

S. Fidelis or Siomarinoen, Ft. M. at Seevis , in the Grtsons , a.d. 1692.

S. DANIEL, H.M.

(date uncertain.)

[Spanish Martyrologies. The life of this saint is pretended to have been written by Andrew, his disciple; and as such was inserted by Domcnecci, in his Spanish history, though he omitted and altered much which even he with his uncritical abilities was unable to swallow. Papc- broeck, the Bollandist, caustically says, “We have received the original, as divided into twelve lections, accordirg to Benedictine ritual. But it is little gain to have gotten it. For not only do those things which the stomach of Domenecci could not digest, move us to sickness, but we have ascertained besides, that all the account of Daniel’s life in the East is taken word for word, only with some amplification, from the Greek life of S. John in the Well, which we gave March 30th." The compiler of the legend adapted it to Daniel, by altering the names ; thus the mother of John was Julia; the mother of Daniel is Uliana; the sister of John was Themistia, that of Daniel is Theomita. The imperial officer in the life

1 Another instance of the disastrous fraud of the Pseudo-Dexter. Higuera, the Jesuit, who forged it, finding these names in the Greek Menology, just published by Cardinal Sirlet, without place of martyrdom, and the Roman Martyrology being also silent on that point, inserted them in his Chronicle as martyrs in Spain, at Totana, near Carthagcna; and he was followed unsuspiciously by the whole train of Spanish Marty rologists. But the other Greek Menologles and Menaeas show that these were sufferers at Nicomedia. The body of S. Leontius was given

by Pope Urban VIII., in 1641, to the cathedral of Osnaburg. TheOsnaburg Breviary lessons are a tissue of historical blunders.

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Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness

In Iona, Scotiae insula, sancti Egberti, Presbyteri et Monachi, admirandae humilitatis et continentiae viri.