Baring-Gould’s sources: Ancient Roman Martyrology attributed to S. Jerome, on Feb. i6th, under the name of Quoquofatis. The ancient Corbei Martyrology on July 25th, that of S. Maximus at Treves on Feh. 12th as well as July 25th. Notker on Feb. 12th and 16th, and again on July 25th. All later Latin Martyrologies, Ado, Usuardus, Wandelhert, &c., on July 25th. The Mozarabic Breviary translates the commemoration of S. Cucuphas to July 27th, because of the festival of S. James on July 25th and of S. Anne on July 26th. Authorities: — The Acts, which are unfortunately not the original ones, but were written in the gth cent, 1 and mention in a hymn of / 1 They mention the translation of the relics in 835. VOL. VIII. ! 1 S. Cucuphas, Cucufans, Cucubas, Ququfas, Quoquofas, Cocovatus, or as the Catalonians call him S. Culgat, or as the French call him, S. Qniquenvat, or simply S. Covat, is one of the most renowned of the Spanish martyrs. He was born at Scillitana in Africa, and came with S. Felix (Aug. 1st) to Caesarea in Mauritania to study. There the two young men invested their capital in merchandise, and laded a vessel to trade with Barcelona. The persecution of Diocletian and Maximian was then afflicting the Church. Felix and Cncuphas were Christians, and they had hoped, as merchants, to escape death, avoiding those places where the harshest rulers sought out and tortured the Christians. They were too well known in Mauritania to remain there. But there was no safety for them in Spain. The pro-consul Galerius, perhaps greedy of securing their merchandise, arrested Felix at Gerona, and Cucuphas at Barcelona. The martyrdom of Felix shall be related elsewhere. Cucuphas was racked, all his limbs pulled out of joint, and he was then decapitated.

The relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] of S. Cucuphas were taken from Barcelona by Charlemagne [king of the Franks, crowned emperor in 800] in 777, and given to S. Fuldrad, who placed them in his monastery of Lebraw in the Vosges. But under Louis the Pious, in 835, the body was translated to S. Denys, near Paris. But the Barcelonese indignantly refuse to believe that they were deprived of their martyr’s body, and exhibit it there, wanting only the head. This body was discovered in the monastery of S. Cucuphas, near Barcelona, in the following manner: — A monk, Lazarus, was possessed by two devils named Zenab and Ynt, and to drive them out, the abbot placed upon him the body of an unknown martyr, “Martyr occultus,” they possessed in the church. The devils howled with pain, the abbot questioned them, SS. Thea and Others.

and they declared that the unknown martyr was S. Cucuphas. This “ invention ” took place on April 29th, 1079; and that day is observed as a festival at Barcelona.