Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menaea, Constantinopolitan and Russian Kalendare, on Sept, n, on which day also at Naples. The little Roman Martyrology, that attributed to S. Jerome, the Modern Roman Martyrology on Aug. 17. Authorities: — The panegyric in honour of the saint by S. Basil, Horn, xxvi., and S. Gregory Nazianzen, Or. xliii. The Greek Acts are fabulous and late and not to be trusted, they are apparently compounded out of the Acts of two martyrs of the same name, S. Mammas, a monk, and S. Mammas the boy.] ROM the words of S. Basil and S. Gregory Nazianzen, all we can gather concerning S. Mammas is that he was a shepherd who suffered martyrdom for the faith of Christ at Caesarea in Cappadocia. The Greek Acts, very untrustworthy, and the notice in the Menaea and Menology, say that he was a shepherd boy, and that he suffered under Aurelian; but these notices are so mixed up with fabulous matter, that it is impossible to place much reliance on any of their statements. He was a boy of twelve years old, and was stoned to death, according to the Acts; according to the Modern Roman Martyrology he lived to an advanced age. The body of S. Mammas lay at Csesarea in the time of S. Basil and S. Gregory Nazianzen, and till the nth century, according to the statement of Nicetas of Heraclsea, who wrote a Commentary on the Orations of S. Gregory Nazianzen. In the 6th century S. Radegund is said to have sent to the Patriarch of Jerusalem for relics of S. Mammas. The patriarch removed one of the fingers and sent it to the queen. The body of the saint was therefore then shown at Jerusalem. The body of S. Mammas is now at Milan. There is another body again, brought from Cyprus, to which it is said to have floated in a marble coffin. A head with flesh, red hair, and beard, neither that of a boy nor of an old man, said to belong to S. Mammas, is at Lucca. Part of another head and an arm, brought from Constantinople, at Langres; portions taken off this relic, at Elwangen. Other relics in Portugal at Lorbano.