martyrologium

The age of the moon, ascertained by these methods, is read out before the martyrologium every day during the public recitation of the Office of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Almost all the writers, such as Florus, Ado, and Usuard, who undertook the task of supplementing the martyrologium of Bede, worked with the avowed object of filling up the days which he had left blank.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Syriac document is chiefly important as witnessing to one of the main sources, direct or indirect, of that famous martyrologium, but it also shows how even in the East a calendar was being formed in the fourth century which took notice of the martyrs of Nicomedia,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Thus the ancient Irish poem commonly known as the "Calendar of Aengus" is more properly a martyrologium, for a number of names of saints are assigned to each day quite independently of any idea of liturgical cultus.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

So on the Continent, to take but one example, we have an elaborate calendar or rather martyrologium composed about 848 in Latin hexameters by Wandelbert of Prüm.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

For a long time the study of the "Hieronymian Martyrology" yielded few results, and the edition of F.M. Fiorentini ( "Vetustius occidentalis ecclesiæ martyrologium", Lucca, 1668), accompanied by a very erudite historical commentary, caused it to make no notable progress.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Perhaps the commonest was martyrologium, because they often took the form of mere additions to the martyrologium, or list of martyrs and saints commemorated on each day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

He refers, seemingly, to some ancient symbolism which strangely reappears in the Anglo-Saxon martyrologium of King Alfred's time.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

This corresponds to the classification here, viz. of thee included in the martyrologium, those named in the necrology, and those not specially mentioned at all.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

In the time of St. Leo (Sermon 84) the feast seems to have been celebrated in Rome with an octave, while the Syriac martyrologium in the East and Polemius

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913