Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican and German late Martyrologies. Not known at Trfcves, where they are said to have suffered before the nth cent. No mention of them in a Treves Calendar of the 10th cent; two others of the nth are also without notice of them. In one of the 12th, on Oct. 4, is this entry: “Tyrsus, Palmatius.” In one of the 13th, on Oct. 5: “ Palmatius and his Companions”; and on the 6th: ** Innumerable Martyrs.” A Tr&ves Breviary of the 14th cent, has, on Oct. 4, “ Tyrsus, duke, and his Companions, MM.”; on the 5th, “ Palmatius and his Companions, MM.”; and on the 6th, “Innumerable Martyrs.” This arrangement was given to them by Baldwin, Archbishop of Treves, who died A.D. 1354. No ancient martyrologist knew of these martyrs: they are not mentioned by Bede, Ado, Usuardus, or any others. The modern Roman Martyrology omits Thyrsus, but inserts Palmatius and his companions on Oct. 5. Saussaye inserts Thyrsus and his companions on Oct. 4, and Palmatius and his on Oct. 6. S. Boniface is mentioned on this day in the Lubek-Cologne Calendar of the 16th cent, and in the Martyrology of Moyen-Moutier in the Vosges. The Acts of these Saints were composed out of the imagination of the author on the invention of their relics The earliest mention of martyrs at Trfeves is in the Acts of SS. Fuscianus and Victorious, composed in the 6th century. These Acts give no particulars; and the Church of Trfeves was profoundly ignorant of the fact that its soil had been watered by the blood of martyrs, till, in 107 1, the monks of S. Paulinus, being desirous of increasing their collection of relics, dug about their crypt, and found quantities of bones, as might have been expected. With these bones was most happily unearthed a leaden tablet, on which was inscribed all oct. 4.] 6VS\ Domnina, Berenice, and Prosdoce. 63 the information necessary. It informed them that the bones were those of Thyrsus, Palmatius, Maxentius, Constantius, Crescentius,Justinus, Alexander, Soter, Hormisdas, Papyrius, Constans, Jovinus, all martyrs. And to satisfy the most sceptical, one of the bones having tumbled down from the stretcher on which they were being carried, showed signs of fresh blood, “ and it is bloody to this day.” The genuineness of the tablet has been abandoned by most antiquaries of Treves.

A cross stands on the spot of the supposed martyrdom of S. Thyrsus and his companions, before the church of S. Paulinus. The Moselle is said to have flowed red with blood for many miles below Trfeves.

Various miracles are recorded as having been wrought by the relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor], which calculated to spread their renown. Portions were eagerly sought and distributed; some went to Prag; others to Paderborn and Brunswick; some are now at Einsiedeln, others have travelled to Gratz, in Styria.