There has been preserved for us a most interesting calendar for the city
of Rome, written by Furius Dionysius Filocalus in 354 A.D., and
containing a series of drawings by his hand showing the symbolical
figures of the months of the year. Though the original manuscript is
lost, several apparently faithful copies exist, one of which is in the
Imperial Library in Vienna. Much of this work deals with matters
referring to the Roman calendar, but perhaps its most valuable part is a
list of the early Christian saints and martyrs. As this is the earliest
list of the kind, of even earlier date than the rest of the work, we
give it here unabridged, as a most interesting documentary proof of the
veneration in which the saints were held in the fourth, or, we should
probably say, in the third century.
ITEM DEPOSITIO MARTIRUM[494]
VIII kal. Jan. natus Christum in Betleem Judeæ. mense Januario.
XIII kal. Feb. Fabiani in Callisti et Sebastiani in Catacumbas.
XII kal. Feb. Agnetis in Nomentana. mense Februario.
VIII kal. Martias natale Petri de cathedra. mense Martio. non.
Martias. Perpetuæ et Felicitatis, Africæ. mense Maio.
XIIII kal. Jun. Partheni et Caloceri in Callisti, Diocletiano VIIII
et Maximiano VIII [304]. mense Junio.
III kal. Jul. Petri in Catacumbas et Pauli Ostense, Tusco et Basso
cons. [258]. mense Julio.
VI idus Felicis et Filippi in Priscillæ et in Jordanorum,
Martialis Vitalis Alexandri et in Maximi Silani. hunc
Silanum martirem Nouati furati sunt. et in Praetextatæ,
Januari.
III kal. Aug. Abdos et Semnes in Pontiani, quod est ad ursum
piliatum. mense Augusto.
VIII idus Aug. Xysti in Callisti et in Praetextati Agapiti et
Felicissimi.
VI idus Aug. Secundi Carpofori Victorini, et Seueriani Albano. et
Ostense VII ballisteria Cyriaci Largi Crescentiani Memmiæ
Julianetis et Ixmaracdi.
IIII idus Aug. Laurenti in Tiburtina.
idus Aug. Ypoliti in Tiburtina. et Pontiani in Callisti.
XI kal. Septemb. Timotei, Ostense
V kal. Sept. Hermetis in Basillæ Salaria uetere. mense Septembre.
non. Sept. Aconti, in Porto, et Nonni et Herculani et Taurini.
V idus Sept. Gorgoni in Lauicana.
III idus Sept. Proti et Jacinti, in Basillæ.
XVIII kal. Octob. Cypriani, Africæ. Romæ celebratur in Callisti.
X kal. Octob. Basillæ, Salaria uetere, Diocletiano IX et Maximiano
VIII consul. (304) mense Octobre.
pri. idus Octob. Callisti in via Aurelia. miliario III. mense
Nouembre.
V idus Nou. Clementis Semproniani Claui Nicostrati in comitatum.
III kal. Dec. Saturnini in Trasonis. mense Decembre.
idus Decem. Ariston in pontum.
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