Baring-Gould’s sources: Ionian Martyrology, Usuardus, Ado. But Floras, Hrabanus, Notkcr on Jan. 5. By the Greeks on Feb. 3; same day by the Russians; by the Copts on Feb. 2.] JIMEON, a devout Jew, inspired by the Holy Ghost, met the B. Virgin when she brought Our Lord into the Temple, at her purification, and, taking Him up in his arms, he gave thanks for what he saw and knew of Jesus (Luke ii. 25-35). apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, Simeon is called a high priest. The statement deserves no respect He was probably the Rabban Simeon, son of Hillel, who succeeded his father as president of the Sanhedrim, about a.d. 13, though Bartolocci 1 doubts it The grandmother of Rabban Simeon 1 “ Bibliotheca Max. Rabin,” iii. 327.

S. Demetrius. was of the family of David, and his son was Gamaliel the Pharisee, at whose feet S. Paul was brought up. 1 S. Adamnan, and S. Gregory of Tours [bishop and historian of the Franks (d. 594)], say that he was buried on Mount Olivet. In the 6th century his relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] were translated to Constantinople, by Justin the Younger. Portions were given to Charlemagne [king of the Franks, crowned emperor in 800], and were by him placed at Aix, where the arm on which the infant Saviour rested when the “ Nunc Dimitris” was first is said, is shown. Other relics at Hartzburg, but the entire body at Zara, in Dalmatia; and another entire body at Andechs, in Bavaria. Part of an arm at Perigueux, another part at Palermo. The head in the Jesuit college at Brussels. Numerous other relics, mostly of arms, elsewhere.