SS. EMETHERIUS AND CHELIDONIUS, MM.

(UNCERTAIN DATE.)

[Commemorated in the Mozarabic Missal and Breviary; the Evora and

Toledo Breviaries, and as a double at Burgos and Leon; Martyrology of

S. Jerome, those of Usuardus, Ado, Notker, and the Roman Martyrology.

Authority:--A hymn of Prudentius, and Acts of no great antiquity,

printed by Tamayus Salazar, and an Elogium by Gregory of Tours.]

These martyrs were put to death with the sword at Calahorra, in

Navarre, on the Ebro. According to the hymn of Prudentius, and the

story of Gregory of Tours, on their execution, the ring of one martyr,

and the stole (orarium) of the other, were caught up in a cloud, and

ascended into Heaven. Probably this legend contains a reminiscence of

an incident such as the wind wafting away some of the martyrs' garments

during the execution.

Relics at Calahorra.

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