[Modern Roman Martyrology.]
The modern Roman Martyrology has on this day: "In Jerusalem the
commemoration of the Blessed Thief, who confessed Christ on the Cross,
and merited to hear from him: This day shalt thou be with Me in
Paradise." Baronius, in his notes to the Martyrology, adds that the
thief is traditionally called Dimas, under which name chapels have been
dedicated to him, but that as this name is derived from apocryphal
sources, it is not sanctioned by the Roman Martyrology. Masinus asserts
that the body of S. Dimas, the Penitent Thief, is preserved in the
church of SS. Vitalis and Agricola at Bologna.