ON THE HOLY MARTYRS, THERAPON, MACARIUS, MARCUS, AND MARCIA.
From the Manuscript Synaxaries of Paris and Milan.
CommentaryTherapon, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)
Macarius, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)
Marcus, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)
Marcia, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)
D. P.
The joined memory of these four is nowhere else found than in the notable Synaxary of the city of Constantinople, which our Sirmond acquired for his College at Paris, and which from the old name of that College we often call the Claromontane; where it is thus read, after the memory of S. Rufus, whom we, following the Roman Martyrology, deferred to the 21st of November: And of the holy Martyrs
Therapon, Macarius, Marcus, and Marcia; And of the Holy Martyrs, Therapon, Macarius, Marcus, and Marcia. We found another in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, where Therapon alone is honored with the title of Martyr: and apart from him are recorded the Saints Marcus and Maria, Macarius being omitted, in this manner: and of the holy Martyr Therapon, and of the holy ones Marcus and Maria: which I did not wish to conceal, if perhaps from elsewhere more light might sometime be brought to bear here, by which it might be established that two or three of the aforesaid are to be reckoned among the Confessors; and that this is the Therapon, concerning whom—suffering in Cyprus and translated to Constantinople—we treated on the 27th of May. For it may be that the Relics of all four, or at least of three, though venerable under different titles, were placed together in the same location, and under that title were ascribed to the same day as well.