Willehad
Martyrological notice
At Bremen, of St. Willehad, the first bishop of that city, who, together with St. Boniface, whose disciple he was, propagated the Gospel in Friesland and Saxony.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 13, November, Pt. 1 · S. Willehad, B. of Bremen ; a.d. 789.
S. Willehad, B. of Bremen ; a.d. 789.
S. Gernad, C. in Moray and Elgin ; circ. a. d. 934.
S. Gregory, Ab. of Einsiedeln in Switzerland; a.d. 996.
S. Godfrid, B. of Amiens ; a.d. xii8.
SS. QUATUOR CORONATI, MM.
(a.d. 304.)
[Roman Martyrology. Usuardus, Bede, Ado, &c. Sarum, York, Hereford, and Durham Kalendars. Authority : — Mention in the Mar- tyrologies.]
jJN the persecution of Diocletian four brothers who held offices of trust at Rome were taken and ordered to offer sacrifice before an image of ^scuiapius. As they refused to do so, they were scourged with leaded whips till they died. Their bodies were cast to the dogs, but were saved by the Christians and buried on the Lavican Way. As their names had passed from re- collection, and only the fact of their martyrdom remained, Pope Melchiades is said to have ordered them to be com- memorated as the Quatuor Coronati, the “ Four Crowned Ones.” Pope Gregory I. mentions an old church with this dedication at Rome.
Pope Leo IV., in 841, translated to it their relics from the
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Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
In vico Blexen, ad Visurgim fluvium, in Germania, sancti Willehadi, qui primus exstitit Bremensis civitatis Episcopus; atque, una cum sancto Bonifatio, cujus discipulus fuit, in Frisia et Saxonia Evangelium propagavit.