Bellarmine · De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis · On the Ecclesiastical Writers
Chapter 22: The Seventh Century and the Early Eighth: Gregory the Great, Sophronius, Isidore, Maximus the Confessor, Ildephonsus, Germanus
Our translation, from the Latin of the Opera Omnia (Paris: Vivès, 1870–74), vol. XII, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, of the New Testament, seventh and eighth centuries. The Latin source text is public domain; this English rendering is released with the site. Scripture quotations follow Bellarmine's Vulgate citations, rendered in Douay-Rheims wording where he quotes exactly. Click “Show the Latin” for the original (raw OCR of the scan; scanning errors remain — the scan itself is the authority).
The seventh century, from the year 600 to 700
Pope St. Gregory
Pope St. Gregory, most holy, an outstanding Doctor, and rightly called the great, flourished in the times of Justin, Maurice and Phocas, and died in the fourteenth year of his pontificate, of salvation 604. He wrote: the Moral exposition on Job, 35 books [“38” printed]; On pastoral care, three parts, 1; the Dialogues with Peter, 4; an Exposition on the Canticles, 1; the Exposition on Ezechiel, 22 homilies; on the Gospels, 40 homilies; an Exposition on the seven penitential Psalms; on the first book of Kings, 6 books; twelve [fourteen] books of Letters; some decrees; the Answers to eleven questions of Augustine [“Justini” printed], Bishop of the English.
Hesychius, or Hisychius. 601
Hesychius, or Hisychius, Bishop of Jerusalem, lived in the time of St. Gregory; for to him is letter 40 [44?] of book 9 of the register of St. Gregory. Nor is any other Bishop of Jerusalem found called Hesychius or Hisychius before this one. This one then wrote seven books on Leviticus, and expounds the version of St. Jerome; which is an argument that this author is later than Jerome and Augustine and the other ancients; for the version of St. Jerome did not begin to be in the use of the Churches until quite long after the death of St. Jerome.
St. Sophronius the Bishop. 630
St. Sophronius, Bishop of Jerusalem, lived in the time of Pope Honorius the first and the emperor Heraclius, and at the beginning of the heresy of the Monothelites was a notable defender of the Catholic faith. His letter to Sergius, Bishop of Constantinople, is extant in the sixth Synod, act 11. There are extant also in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 2, second edition, two sermons of his, one on the Lord's birth, the other on the Angels. He died in the year of the Lord 634 [638?], from Cardinal Baronius, Annals volume 8.
John Moschus. 630
John Moschus, otherwise Eviratus, wrote to St. Sophronius, Bishop of Jerusalem, the book called the Spiritual Meadow; and hence perhaps it came about that this book is attributed by many to Sophronius himself. It is extant in volume 7 of the Library of the Holy Fathers, second edition. And indeed the book is for the great part useful, and is cited in the seventh Synod.
Leontius. 630
Leontius lived in the time of the emperor Heraclius, and committed to writing the wonderful life of his contemporary St. John the Bishop, surnamed the Almsgiver. St. John died in the 11th year of Heraclius, which was the year of the Lord 620 [“920” printed]. This book has testimony from the second Synod of Nicaea, and is truly most worthy to be read.
Jonas. 630
Jonas, an Englishman or an Irishman, in the time of the same Heraclius, wrote the life and deeds of St. Columban (as is found in Bede, History of his nation book 5, chapter 17 [as printed]), who as a kind of new Apostle wonderfully lit up England, Gaul and Italy. He died in the sixth year of Heraclius, which was the year of the Lord 615. This life is extant in Surius on the 21st of November.
Antiochus the Monk. 630
Antiochus the Monk lived in the time of Heraclius, and in a hundred and twenty-nine homilies (which are extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 2, second edition) bewailed that huge calamity which happened in the fourteenth year of Heraclius, when Jerusalem was taken by the Persians and the wood of the Holy Cross was carried off into Persia; at which time very many Christians, up to ninety thousand, are said to have been sold to the Jews at the vilest price, and cruelly put to death by them.
St. Isidore of Seville. 630
St. Isidore, Bishop of Seville, began to sit in the episcopal see in the year 596 and passed to heaven in the year 637 [636], as is understood from the Spanish chronicles. He wrote many things, whose catalogue St. Ildephonsus weaves in these words in the book On illustrious men: “He wrote,” he says, “excellent works and not a few, that is: a book On the kinds of offices; a book of Prefaces; a book On the birth and death of the Fathers; a book of commentaries which he called Synonyms; two little books to Florentina against the wickedness of the Jews; a book On the nature of things, to Prince Sisebut; a book of Differences; a book of Sentences; a book of questions, or of the exposition of the Sacraments; the book of Etymologies, which he did not finish.” So he. But in the Paris edition of the year 1601 these books are added: On contempt of the world; the Rule of living; the Exhortation to penance; the Lament of penance, in verse and alphabetical; a long prayer of St. Isidore for weeping over sins; a shorter prayer against the snares of the Devil; the letter to Masona on the fall and restoration of a Priest; the Chronicle from the beginning of the world to the fifth year of Suinthila King of the Goths; the Chronicle of the Goths; the History of the Vandals; the History of the Suevi; On King Antiochus and the martyrdom of the Machabees; On ecclesiastical writers; On the birth, passion, resurrection, kingdom and judgement of the Lord, to his sister Florentina; On the calling of the Gentiles, to the same; the letter to Leudefred on the office of the Bishop and other Clerics in the Church; three books of Sentences, or On the highest good; the Rule of Monks; On the conflict of vices and virtues; the Exposition on the Canticle of Canticles; the book On illustrious men; a Glossary collected from various things carried about under the name of Isidore of Seville.
Note. It is strange whence so many works of St. Isidore have come out which St. Ildephonsus, who lived in the same age as Isidore himself, does not mention. So I suspect that these were not written by St. Isidore himself but added by someone else. Certainly the book On contempt of the world and the Rule of living are taken from the book of Synonyms. Likewise the chronicle is taken from book 5 of the Etymologies; or, if it is not taken from there, it is not likely that the Chronicle was written twice by Isidore. Further, what are called in the Paris edition commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and so on are called by St. Ildephonsus questions, or expositions of the Sacraments, collected from various authors. And the two books to his sister Florentina, On the birth of the Lord and so on, and On the calling of the Gentiles, are perhaps those two which St. Ildephonsus mentions, against the wickedness of the Jews. And those which are called in the Paris edition On Church offices are called by St. Ildephonsus On the kinds of offices.
St. Eligius the Bishop. 640
St. Eligius, Bishop of Noyon, wrote sixteen homilies, which are extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 2, second edition. He died in the year 665 [660], on the witness of Sigebert in the chronicle; his life, written quite diligently in two books by blessed Audoenus, Bishop of Rouen, is extant in Surius on the 1st of December.
Berengosus the Abbot
Berengosus the Abbot wrote three books on the finding of the Holy Cross; likewise a book on the mystery of the wood of the Cross; and sermons on various subjects; all of which are extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 2, second edition. At what time he lived is unknown.
Isaias the Abbot
Isaias the Abbot, at what time he lived I could not find, wrote 29 very useful homilies, especially for Monks striving for perfection. They are extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 2, second edition.
St. Maximus the Martyr. 650
St. Maximus, a Monk of Constantinople and a most famous Martyr, lived in the times of Pope Honorius the first and the emperor Heraclius, and died under the Pontiff Vitalian and the emperor Constans in the year of the Lord 660 [662]. He wrote very many things, whose catalogue Cardinal Baronius gives, Annals volume 8. There is now extant the notable disputation held in Africa against Pyrrhus the Monothelite, which the same Cardinal Baronius published in Greek and Latin in the appendix to the eighth volume of the annals. There is extant also, in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 6, second edition, the book On the Church's mystagogy. There are extant lastly, in volume 5 of the same Library of the Holy Fathers, the centuries of St. Maximus on charity and on the incarnation of the Word; but since they were translated from the Greek tongue into Latin by the work of Heretics, they are not much to be trusted. For Heretics, in translating good authors, are often wont to fit the sayings of good authors to their own errors.
St. Ildephonsus, Bishop of Toledo. 658
St. Ildephonsus was made Bishop of Toledo in the year of the Lord 658 [657], in the time of Pope Vitalian. He died in the year of the Lord 667. He wrote a notable treatise on the virginity of blessed Mary, and another on the perpetual virginity and child-bearing of the same most holy Mother of God, and twelve sermons on the same; all of which are extant printed at Paris by Nivelle in the year 1576, and are found in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 9, second edition. There is extant likewise a book On illustrious men among the works of St. Isidore of Seville, but with the title of St. Ildephonsus. He is said to have written many other things in verse and prose, which are not extant. For his singular devotion toward the most Blessed Mother of God, and his defence of the perpetual virginity of the same Queen of virgins, this happy Prelate deserved not only to see her on earth shining with divine splendour, but also to be given by her a splendid priestly vestment, and, what filled his soul with the highest joy, to be made certain of the garment of glory to be gained after a blessed death; all of which Julian his Deacon writes in the preface to St. Ildephonsus's book on the praises of the spotless Virgin Mary.
St. Julian, Bishop of Toledo. 680
St. Julian was created Bishop of Toledo in the year of the Lord 680, and died after ten years. He wrote three books against the Jews, which are extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 4, second edition. He wrote also three books on the world to come, which he called the Prognosticon, which are extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 9, second edition. But Cardinal Baronius warns, in the notes on the martyrology for the eighth of March, that Julian, Bishop of Toledo, is not rightly called Julianus Pomerius. For there were two Pomeriuses: one a Presbyter who by Gennadius was simply called Pomerius, but by Isidore and others is called Julianus Pomerius, whom Gennadius of Marseilles writes in the catalogue of illustrious men lived in his own time, that is, before the year of the Lord 500; and this seems to be the one whom St. Julian, Archbishop of Toledo, of whom we are now treating, so often cites in his Prognosticon. The other was Julianus Pomerius the Deacon, who added a preface to the books of St. Ildephonsus, of whom we made mention a little before. And this St. Julian was living in the era 724, that is, the year of the Lord 686. But since the author of this work, in the letter to King Ervig, names himself Julianus Pomerius, I do not see why he himself cannot be called Julianus Pomerius; so that there would be three Juliani Pomerii, one a Presbyter, another a Deacon, and the third a Bishop.
Anastasius of Nicaea
Anastasius, Bishop of Nicaea, lived after the Council in Trullo, called Quinisext by the Greeks because it added canons to the fifth and sixth general Councils; for this author cites the second canon of Trullo. He wrote an answer to questions on many Church matters. See the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 1, second edition, where the marginal notes are to be read with caution, or rather deleted, because they do not contain sound teaching.
The eighth century, from the year 700 to 800
St. Gregory the younger. 714
St. Gregory, the second Pope of that name, or the younger, began to sit in the year of salvation 714 [715], sat 17 years, and died in the year 731. He wrote various works, but only his most learned and many letters are extant; of which one to St. Germanus is extant in the seventh Synod, act 4; two in Greek and Latin to the emperor Leo the Isaurian are extant in Cardinal Baronius, Annals volume 9, at the 15th year of Gregory the second; in the same are extant the letters to Boniface in the eleventh year of the pontificate, and to Charles Martel, to the Thuringians, to the Saxons and to others in the tenth year of the pontificate.
St. Aldhelm
St. Anthelmus, or Aldhelm, was a Bishop in Scotland [as printed; of Sherborne among the West Saxons], and began to sit in the year of the Lord 700 [705], from Bede, History book 5, chapter 19 [18]. He wrote a book on virginity, which is extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 3, second edition. He wrote also on the day of Easter against the errors of the Britons, on Bede's witness. His life is found in Surius on the 28th [25th] of May.
St. Marcellinus. 717
St. Marcellinus the Presbyter, an Apostolic man, was the companion of St. Suitbert, the first Bishop of Verden [as printed], who died in the year of the Lord 717 [713]. But blessed Marcellinus himself lived much longer, and wrote the life of St. Suitbert, which is extant in Surius on the first of March; and on the report made from this book of St. Marcellinus, St. Suitbert was afterwards canonized by Pope Leo III in the year 804.
St. Germanus of Constantinople. 720
St. Germanus, Bishop of Constantinople, lived in the times of Pope Gregory II and of the heretic emperor Leo the Isaurian. For the sake of the sacred images he both did many things excellently and bore many bravely; at last, ninety years old, he died in exile in the year of the Lord 730 [733?]. He wrote many things. There is extant now the Theory of sacred things in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 4, second edition. There are extant also three letters in Greek and Latin of the same St. Germanus in the second Council of Nicaea, act 4, of which the third is very long; before which letters is placed the letter of Pope Gregory II to Germanus. There is extant in Henricus Canisius, volume 3 of the Ancient Readings, a Greek and Latin fragment of his oration on the heresies.
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SiECULUM SEPTIMUM AB ANNO 600 AD. 700. De Sancto Gregorio Papa. Sanctus Gregorius Pdpa sanctissimus, et Doctor eximius, et merito magnus appella¬ tus, floruit, Justini, Mauritii, et Phocae tem¬ poribus, et anno quarto decimo pontificatus sui, salutis autem 604. obiit. Scripsit : Moralis expositionis in Job lib. 38 De cura pastorali partes tres, 1 Dialogorum cum Petro, 4 Expositionis in Cantica, 1 Expositionis in Ezechielem, hom . 22 InEvangelia, homil. 40 Expositionem in septem Psalmos poenitentiales In primum librum Regum, lib. 6 Epistolarum libros duodecim. Decreta nonnulla. Responsiones ad undecim interro¬ gationes Justini Episcopi Anglo- rum. De Hesychio , sive Hisychio. 601. Hesychius, sive Hisychius, Episcopus Hie¬ rosolymitanus, tempore S. Gregorii vixit : nam ad eum est epistola 40. libri ix. ex re- gistro S. Gregorii. Neque alius invenitur Episcopus Hierosolymae, qui dicatur Hesy- chius, vel Hisychius, ante istum, hic igitur A 10 DE SCRIPTORIBUS ECCLESIASTICIS scripsit in Le viticum libros septem, et expo¬ nit versionem S. Hieronymi, quod est argu¬ mentum, auctorem hunc esse posteriorem Hieronymo, et Augustino, et aliis veteribus: non enim coepit versio Sancti Hieronymi esse in usu Ecclesiarum, nisi satis diu post obitum S. Hieronymi. De S. Sophronio Episcopo. 630. Sanctus Sophronius Episcopus Hierosoly¬ mitanus vixit tempore Honorii Papae primj, et Heracli imperatoris, et initio hseresis Mo- nothelitarum insignis fuit defensor fidei Ca¬ tholicae. Exstat epistola ipsius ad Sergium Episcopum Constantinopolitanum in sexta Synodo, Act. xi. Exstant etiam in bibliothe¬ ca sanctorum Patrum tomo n. edit. 2. duo sermones ejus, unus de natali Domini, alter de Angelis. Obiit anno Dom. 634. e x Card. Baronio, tomo octavo Annalium. De Joanne Mosco. 630. Joannes Moscus, alias Eviratus, scripsit ad Sanctum Sophronium Episcopum Hiero¬ solymitanum, librujn, qui dicitur Pratum spirituale : atque hinc fortasse factum est, ut ipsi Sophronio, a multis hic liber tribua¬ tur. Exstat in tomo septimo bibliothecee san¬ ctorum Patrum editionis secundae. Et qui¬ dem liber est magna ex parte utilis, et cita¬ tur in septima Synodo. De Leontio. 630. Leontinus tempore Ileraclii imperatoris vixit, et sancti Joannis Episcopi cognomento Eleemosynarii ecqualis sui admirabilem vi¬ tam litteris mandavit. Obiit Sanctus Joannes anno 11. Heraclii, qui fuit annus Dom. 920. Hic liber testimonium habet a Synodo se¬ cunda Nicaena, et vere lectu dignissimus est. De Jona. 630. Jonas Anglus, sive Hibernus, tempore ejusdem Heraclii, scripsit vitam et res ge¬ stas Sancti Columbani (ut est apud Bedam lib. V. hist. gentis suae cap. 17.), qui ut novus quidam Apostolus Angliam, Gallias, et Ita¬ liam mirifice illustravit. Obiit anno sexto Heraclii, qui erat annus Dom. 615. Exstat heec vita apud Surium die 21. Novembris. De Antiocho Monacho. 630. Antiochus Monachus vixit Heraclii tempo¬ re, et centum viginti novem homiliis (quae exstant in bibliotheca sanctorum Patrum tomo secundo edit. 2.) deploravit ingentem illam calamitatem, quae contigit anno quarto decimo Heraclii, cum Hierusalem a Persis capta, et lignum Sanctae Crucis in Persidem asportatum fuit : quo tempore Christiani plurimi, ad nonaginta millia, Judaeis vilis¬ simo pretio divenditi, atque ab eis crudeliter morte necati dicuntur. De S. Isidoro Hispalensi. 630. Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis Episcopus sedere coepit in episcopali sede, anno 596, et anno 637. migravit in coelum, ut ex chro¬ nicis Hispaniensibus intelligitur : scripsit multa, quorum catalogum his verbis texit Sanctus Hildefonsus in libro de viris illustri¬ bus. Scripsit, inquit, opera eximia, et non pau¬ ca, id est : Librum de genere officiorum. Librum prooemiorum. Librum de ortu, vel obitu Patrum. Librum commentariorum, quem Synony¬ ma vocitavit. Libellos duos ad Florentinam contra ne¬ quitias Judaeorum. Librum de natura rerum ad Sisebutum Principem. Librum differentiarum. Librum Sententiarum. Librum quaestionum, sive expositionis Sa¬ cramentorum. Librum Etymologiarum, quem non com¬ plevit. Heec ille. Sed in edit. Parisiensianni 160! . adduntur isti libri : De contemptu mundi. Norma vivendi. Exhortatio ad poenitentiam. Lamentum poenitentiae, versu, et alphabe- tice editum. Oratio S. Isidori prolixa, ad peccata de¬ flenda. Oratio brevior contra insidias Diaboli. Epist. ad Massonum de lapsu, et repara¬ tione Sacerdotis. Chronicum ad initium mundi usque ad an¬ num quintum Suinthiliani regis Gotho¬ rum. AB ANNO DUM. 600. AD 700. 417 Chronicum Gothorum. Historia Vandalorum. Historia Suevorum. De Antiocho rege, et martyrio Macchabaeo- rum. De scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. De nativitate Domini, passione, resurre¬ ctione, regno, et judicio ad Florentinam sororem. De vocatione gentium ad eamdem. Epistola ad Ludifredum de Episcopi et aliorum Clericorum in Ecclesia offi¬ cio. Sententiarum, sive de summo bono libri tres. Regula Monachorum. De conflictu vitiorum, et virtutum. Expositio in Cantica canticorum. Liber de viris illustribus. Glossarium ex diversis, quae nomine Isido- ri Hispalensis circumferuntur, colle¬ ctum. Observatio. Mirum est, unde tot opera Sancti Isidori prodierint, quorum non meminit Sanctus Hildephonsus, qui eadem aetate vixit, qua Isidorus ipse. Ideo suspicor, haec non esse ab ipso Sancto Isidoro scripta, sed ab aliquo alio superaddita. Certe liber de contemptu mundi, et norma vivendi, decerpta sunt ex libro Synonymorum. Item chronicum decer¬ ptum est ex lib. v. Etymologiarum : aut si non inde decerptum est, non est verisimile Chronicum bis ab Isidoro scriptum. Porro quse dicuntur in editione Parisiensi commentaria in Genesim, Exodum, etc. di¬ cuntur a Sancto Hildephonso, quaestiones, sive expositiones Sacramentorum, ex variis auctoribus collectae : et qui sunt duo libri ad Florentinam sororem ; de nativitate Domini? etc. et de vocatione gentium, fortasse sunt duo illi, quorum meminit Sanctus Hilde¬ phonsus, contra nequitiam Judaeorum. Et qui vocantur in editione Parisiensi de offi¬ ciis Ecclesiasticis, vocantur a Sancto Ilde- phonso, de genere officiorum. De Sancto E l 'g io Episcopo. 640. Sanctus Eligius Episcopus Novomiensis? scripsit homilias sexdecim, quae exstant in bibliotheca sanctorum Patrum, tornon. edit. 2. Obiit anno 665. teste Sigeberto in chroni- Tom. XII. co : cujus vita scripta satis diligenter libris duobus a Beato Audoeno Rothomagensi praeposito, exstat apud Surium die 1. De* cemb. De Berengosio Abbate. Berengosius Abbas scripsit de inventione Sanctae Crucis libros tres : item librum de mysterio ligni Crucis : et sermones variorum argumentorum, quae omnia exstant in biblio¬ theca sanctorum Patrum tomo secundo edi- tonis secundae : quo tempore vixerit, igno¬ ratur. De Esaia A bbate. Esaias Abbas, qui quo tempore vixerit, in¬ venire non potui, scripsit hom. 29. valde utiles, praesertim Monachis ad perfectionem tendentibus. Exstant in Bibliotheca sancto¬ rum Patrum tomo secundo editionis secun¬ dae. De Sancto Maximo Martyre. 650. Sanctus Maximus Monachus Constantino- politanus, et Martyr clarissimus , vixit tem¬ poribus Honorii Papae primi, et Heraclii imperatoris: obiit autem sub Vitaliano Pon¬ tifice, et Constante imperatore anno Domini 660. Scripsit plurima, quorum catalogum refert Card. Baronius tomo vm. annalium : nunc exstat insignis disputatio habita in Africa contra Pyrrhum Monothelitara, quam Graecam et Latinam edidit idem Card. Baro¬ nius in appendice ad octavum tomum anna¬ lium. Exstat etiam in bibliotheca sanctorum Patrum tomo vi. edit, secundae liber de Ec¬ clesiastica mystagogia. Exstantdenique tomo v. ejusdem bibliothecae sanctorum Patrum centuriae S. Maximi de ch tritate, et de in¬ carnatione Verbi : sed cum translatae sint e lingua Graeca in Latinam opera Haeretico¬ rum, non multum illis fidendum est. Solent enim Haeretici in auctoribus bonis transfe¬ rendis saepe ad suos errores sententias au¬ ctorum bonorum accommodare. De Sancto Ildephonso Episcopo Toletano. 658^ Sanctus Ildephonsus Episcopus Toletanus factus est anno Domini 658., tempore Vitalia- ni Papae. Obiit anno Dom. 667. Scripsit in¬ signe tractatum de virginitate B. Mariae, et 27 41S DE SCRIPTORIBUS ECCLESIASTICIS alium de perpetua virginitate , et parturi- tione ejusdem sanctissimae Deiparae, et ser¬ mones duodecim de eadem : quae omnia ex¬ stant excusa Parisiis apud Nivellium anno 1576. et inveniuntur in bibliotheca sancto¬ rum Patrum tomo ix. edit, secundae. Exstat item liber de viris illustribus, inter opera S. Isidori Hispalensis, sed cum titulo S. 11- dephonsi : alia multa et versu et prosa scri¬ psisse dicitur, quae non exstant. Ob singula¬ rem devotionem erga Beatissimam Dei Ma¬ trem, et defensionem perpetuae virginitatis ejusdem virginum Reginae, meruit iste felix Antistes non solum in terris intueri eam di¬ vino splendore fulgentem, sed etiam ab ea donari praeclara veste sacerdotali, et, quod summo gaudio animam ejus replevit, certus reddi de veste gloriae post beatam moitem consequenda: quae omnia scribit Julianus ejus Diaconus, prefatione in librum S. Ildephon- si de laudibus intemeratae Virginis Mariae. De Sancto Juliano Episcopo Toletano. 680. Sanctus Julianus Episcopus Toletanus, creatus est anno Dom. 680., et post annos decem obiit. Scripsit tres libros adversus Judaeos, qui exstant in bibliotheca sancto¬ rum Patrum tomo quarto edit. ii. Scripsit etiam tres libros de futuro saeculo, quos Prognosticon vocavit, qui exstant in biblio¬ theca sanctorum Patrum tomo ix. edit, se¬ cunda, admonet autem Gard. Baronius in notis ad martyrologium, die octavo martyrii, factum Julianum Episcopum Goletanum non recte vocari Julianum Pomerium: duo enim fueruntPomerii, unus Presbyter qui simplici¬ ter dicebatur Pomerius, a Gennadio, sed ab Isidoro, et ab aliis dicitur Julianus Pomerius quem Gennadius Massiliensis in catalogo illustrium virorum scribit , suo tempore vixisse, id est, ante annum Dom. 500., alque hic videtur esse ille, quem tam siepe citat in suo Prognostico Sanctus Julianus Archie- piscopus Toletanus, de quo nunc agimus. Alter fuit Julianus Pomerius Diaconus, qui prsefationem addidit ad libros S. Ildephonsi, de quo paulo ante meminimus. Hic autem Sanctus Julianus vivebat aera 724. id est, anno Dom. 686. Sed cum auctor hujus ope¬ ris in epistola ad regem Ervigium se Julia¬ num Pomerium nominet, non video, cur non ipse Julianus Pomerius dici possit, ut sint tres Juliani Pomerii , unus Presbyter, alter Diaconus, et tertius Episcopus. De Anas t asio Nicaeno. Anastasius Nicaenus Episcopus vixit post Concilium Trullanum, quinisextuma Graecis nuncupatum, quia canones addidit Concilio quinto et sexto generali : citat enim hic au¬ ctor canonem secundum Trullanum. Scripsit responsionem ad interrogationes de multis capitibus Ecclesiasticis. Vide bibliothecam sanctorum Patrum, tomo primo edit, secun¬ da, ubi notae marginales caute legendae, aut potius delendae sunt, quia non sanam doctri¬ nam continent. SICULUM OCTAVUM AB ANNO 700. AD 800. De S. Gregorio Juniore. 714. Sanctus Grego rius Papa secundus, sive junior, sedere coepit anno salutis 714., sedit annos » 7. , obiit anno 73 1. Scripsit varia ope¬ ra, sed exstant solum epistolae doctissimae, et multae, quarum una ad Sanctum Germa¬ num exstat in septima Synodo act. 4. duae Graece et Latine ad imperatorem Leonem Isauricum. Exstant apud Card. Baroni um, tomo annalium 9. ad annum 15. Gregorii secundi ; apud eumdem exstant epistolae ad Bonifacium anno undecimo pontificatus ; et ad Carolum Martellum ad Turingos, ad Sa- xones, et ad alios anno decimo Pontifica¬ tus. De S. Anthelmo. Sanctus Anthelmus, sive Adelmus, Epi¬ scopus fuit in Scotia, et anno Dom. 700. se¬ dere coepit, ex Beda lib. v. hist. cap. 19. Scripsit de virginitate librum, qui exstat in bibliotheca sanctorum Patrum tomo tertio edit, secunda. Scripsit etiam de Paschatis die contra errores Britonum, teste Beda. Ejus vita habetur apud Suriumdie28. Maii. De S. Murcellino. 717. Sanctus Marcellinus Presbyter vir Aposto- licus socius fuit S. Suiberti, primi Verdensis Episcopi, qui obiit anno Dom. 717. Sed ipse B. Marcellinus diutius multo vixit, et scripsit vitam S. Suiberti, quoe exstat apud Surium die primo Martii, atque ad relatio¬ nem factam ex hoc libro S. Marcellini S. Suibertus canonizatus fuit postea a Leone III. Pontifice anno 804. AB ANNO DOM. 700. AU 800. 419 De S. Germano Gonstantinopolitano 720. Sanctas Germanus Episcopus Constanti- nopolitanus vixit temporibus Gregorii II. Papae, et Leonis Isaurii imper. Haeretici. Multa propter sacras imagines, et fecit egre¬ gie, et pertulit fortiter : tandem nonagena¬ rius in exilio mortuus est anno Domini 730. Scripsit multa. Exstat nunc theoria rerum sacrarum in bibliotheca S. Patrum tomo iv. edit. 2. Exstant etiam epistolae tres Graece et Latine ejusdem S. Germani in Concilio secundo Nicaeno, art. 4. quarum tertia valde prolixa est : quibus epistolis praeponitur epistola Gregorii Papae II. ad Germanum. Exstat apud Henricum Canisium tomo iit. antiquae lectionis fragmentum Graeco-Lati- num orationis ejusdem de haeresibus.