Baring-Gould’s sources: Modem Roman Martyrology. In the Martyrology of Jerome " Luxorius, Trajan, and Quadratus, Bishops and Martyrs in Sardinia.” In another copy the names are Luxnrius, Augerius, and Enlodius. Trajan has slipped in through mistake, the spot where Luxorius was martyred being ForumTrajensis. The Acts are not ancient, they are redolent of a later age. Luxorius, as a heathen, has a Latin Psalter, goes into a Christian church, is buried with lights and hymns. Yet they are vastly superior to the ordinary run of late Acts. There is no piling up of horrors in the torturing of the Martyr, and no grotesque miracles. They are probably composed on the ancient Acts, with more fidelity to facts and less unscrupulous amplification than was common.] the reign of Diocletian and Maximian, Delphinus or Dalmatius was sent into Sardinia to execute the commands of the Emperors for the extirpation of Christianity. Luxorius was a soldier, who by some accident had got possession of a Psalter; he read the Psalms in order with great satisfaction; and when he came to Psalm lxxxv. (A. V. lxxxvi.), and read, “Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; there is not one that can do as thou doest. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee, O Lord: and shall glorify thy name,” he felt in his heart that these words were only true of the God of the Christians. Then he signed himself with the cross, and hasted to a church, and entered it as they were singing “ Retribue servo tuo; vivam et custodiam sermones tuos “ O do well unto thy servant, that I may live and keep thy word. Open thou mine eyes; that I may see the wondrous things of thy law. I am a stranger upon earth: O hide not thy commandments from me. My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire: that it hath alway unto thy judgments.”1 And his heart grew soft and yearning for the new clear light that was breaking in upon it, and he panted for the living water which promised to slake the great thirst of his soul. So he read diligently the Scriptures, and committed the whole of the Psalter and much of the Prophets to memory, and at length he was given the Holy Gospels. And when he read of J esus Christ, the very eternal Son of God made man, weeping in the crib of Bethlehem, his soul, which had been long weary, began to revive, like a flower which is parched, as the rain falls on it.2 He was baptized, and when the new prefect Dalmatius came to Sardinia, was one of the first to be brought before him. And at the same time, two little boys Cisellus and Camerinus, still in the white of their baptismal garments, were brought up for sentence.

Dalmatius bade Luxorius deny Christ. “ How can I deny him whom my conscience proclaims to be my God ? I cannot do it,” answered the soldier. Dalmatius ordered Luxorius 3 Deinde.... Evangelia commendavit memorise, et animo vivens factus est. SS. Bassa, and her Sons. 223 to be beaten. And when bound to a post, and scourged, he burst forth into the loved song of David, the little boys looking on and listening, and gathering courage. Then Dalmatius ordered all three ro execution by the sword, and the children and the child-hearted soldier entered together into the joy of their Lord.