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August 19
August 19
Bishop
Martyr
In the early Latin lists, on August 19, was accordingly inscribed “Andreas Tribuntjs, Magnus Martyr.” This was read as if there were two Saints, Andrew the Tribune, and Magnus the Martyr. But the martyrologists did not fall into this error altogether at first. The author of an ancient Roman Martyrology published by Rosweydus, and Usuardus have the following entry: “ The nativity of S. Magnus or S. Andrew the Martyr, with his two thousand five hundred and ninety-seven companions.”1 Later martyrologists distinguish Magnus from Andrew; the next process was to give Magnus a different scene of martyrdom from Andrew, and different torments.
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In the early Latin lists, on August 19, was accordingly inscribed “Andreas Tribuntjs, Magnus Martyr.” This was read as if there were two Saints, Andrew the Tribune, and Magnus the Martyr.
But the martyrologists did not fall into this error altogether at first. The author of an ancient Roman Martyrology published by Rosweydus, and Usuardus [a 9th-century monk of Paris who compiled a list of saints for each day] have the following entry: “ The nativity of S. Magnus or S. Andrew the Martyr, with his two thousand five hundred and ninety-seven companions.”1 Later martyrologists distinguish Magnus from Andrew; the next process was to give Magnus a different scene of martyrdom from Andrew, and different torments. In the modern Roman Martyrology Magnus is converted into a bishop, still further to distinguish him from Andrew, and he is made to suffer some fifty years before Andrew; his body has also been found at Fundana, and translated to Anagni. A body of S. Magnus translated to Rome, is in the church of S. Michael, but this is said by some to be that of Magnus, a Friesland duke, who fell in Italy fighting against the Saracens [medieval Christian name for Arab and Muslim peoples]. The church of Laeken, near Brussels, claims the possession of an arm, i The Martyrology of S. Jerome [translator of the Bible into Latin (d. 420)]. “ Natalis S. Magni seu S. Andrese martyris a Corbei Martyrology the same.
S. Andrew the Tribune: August ig.] and a large portion of the body is at Minden. The Acts are apocryphal; so also are those of S. Magnus Martyr at Caesarea in -Cappadocia [a region of central Turkey]; both these saints have issued from the same mistake of taking the attribute of S. Andrew the Tribune as an independent saint, and varying the incidents of martyrdom at pleasure.1
Feast: August 19
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From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
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From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
