Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology; by the Greeks on Sept. 27, as also the Russians. These saints were introduced into the Roman Martyrology by Baronius from the Greek Mensea. Before this they were unknown in the West. But Baronius made a mistake, as the Bollandists have pointed out. In the Roman Martyrology it is said that Callistratus and his companions suffered at Rome. But the Greek Acts by Rome mean Constantinople — New Rome. A similar mistake has been made with regard to S. Alexis (July 17). Tbe Greek Acts are by Metaphrastes, and therefore late and of not much value.] j]ALLISTRATUS, a native of Chalcedon, was a soldier in the cohort called Calandon, quartered at Byzantium on the opposite side of the Bosphorus. He was charged before his officer with being a Christian by some of his fellow soldiers. He boldly confessed his faith, and was therefore beaten, then sewn up in a sack and flung into the Bosphorus. According to the fabulous Acts, the sack burst when it touched the water, and when Callistratus got out two dolphins bore him on their backs to the shore. This miracle converted forty-nine soldiers, and they resolved to die with him. Other miracles converted a hundred and thirty-five more, and then all were put to death in prison.