E06996: The De Locis Sanctis, a guide to the graves of the martyrs around Rome, lists those on the via Tiburtina, east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683.
Creators: name: Bryan
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: On the Holy Places of the Martyrs which are outside the city of Rome (De locis sanctis martyrum quae sunt foris civitatis Romae), via Tiburtina, and between the Tiburtina and Nomentana<br><br>Iuxta uiam Tiburtinam ecclesia est sancti Agapiti multum honorabilis martyrum corporibus.<br><br>Et prope eandem uiam ecclesia est sancti Laurenti maior in qua corpus eius primum fuerat humatum; et ibi basilica noua mirae pulchritudinis ubi ipse modo requiescit; ibi quoque sub eodem altare Abundus est depositus, et foris in portico lapis est qui aliquando in collo eiusdem abundi pendebat in puteum missi. Ibi Hereneus, Iulianus, Primitiuus, Tacteus, Nemeseus, Eugenius, Iustinus, Crescentianus, Romanus sunt sepulti, et sancta Cyriaca, sancta Simferosa et Iustina cum multis martyribus sunt sepulti.<br><br>Inde in boream sursum in monte basilica sancti Hyppoliti est ubi ipse cum familia sua tota XVIIII martyres iacet; carcer ibi est in quo fuit Laurentius; ibi est Trifonia uxor Decii Caesaris et Cyrilla filia eius; inter utrasque Concordia; et sanctus Geneseus; et multi martyres ibi sunt.<br><br><br>'By the via Tiburtina is the church of saint Agapitus, much to be honoured for the bodies of its martyrs.<br><br>And close by the same road is the larger church of saint Laurence in which his body was first buried; and there there is a new basilica and it is of marvellous beauty, where he now rests; there under the same altar is also deposited Abundus, and outside in a portico is the stone which once hung on the neck of Abundus, [when he was] thrown was thrown into the sewer. There are buried Hereneus, Iulianus, Primitivus, Tacteus, Nemeseus, Eugenius, Iustinus, Crescentianus, Romanus, and saint Cyriaca, saint Simpherosa, and Iustina; they are buried with many martyrs.<br><br>From there to the north, on a hill is the basilica of saint Hyppolitus, where he lies with his household, in total 18 martyrs; the prison is there in which Laurence was; there is Trifonia, the wife of the emperor Decius, and Cyrilla, his daughter; between the two is Concordia; and saint Genesius, and many martyrs are there.'<br><br>Text: Valentini and Zucchetti 1942, 113-115. Translation: P. Polcar.<br><br>The bracketed &lt;&gt; passage is an interpolation added, in a more-or-less contemporary hand, to the late-8th-century Vienna manuscript of the text. The information it contains probably derived from another written source (of uncertain date), rather than from new direct observation. <br><br><br>First paragraph: [*Ianuarius and *Agapitus, both deacons of Xystus II, and both martyrs, S00202]<br><br>Second paragraph: [*Laurence/Laurentius, deacon and martyr of Rome, S00037; Abundius/Habundius, Irenaeus/Herennius, and Romanus, martyrs associated with *Xystus/Sixtus, Laurence and Hippolytus, S00213; Iulianus, Primitivus, Tacteus, Nemeseus, Eugenius, Iustinus, Crescentianus, all sons of *Symphorosa, and martyrs of Tivoli, S01165; *Cyriaca, widow and martyr of Rome, buried on the Via Tiburtina, S00567; *Iustina perhaps a repeat of *Iustinus, one of the seven sons of Symphorosa]<br><br>Third paragraph: [*Hippolytus, martyr of Rome, S00509; Triphonia and Cyrilla, wife and daughter of the emperor Decius, and Concordia, nurse of Hippolytus, martyrs associated with *Xystus/Sixtus, Laurence and Hippolytus, S00213; *Genesius, martyr of Rome, S00508]