Rom. p. 283, and the Greek
Synaxary.

Footnotes:
1. Tit. 7, c. 1, Thomassin, l. 1, c. 7, n. 3.
2. Prat. Spir. c. 180.
3. Zonar. 3, parte Annal.
4. Ced. in Joanne Zemisce Imp.
5. See Baronius in his notes on the Martyrology, (ad 9 Nov.,) who
justly censures those who confound this saint with St. Theodoras
Tyro, as Fabricius has since done. (t. 9, Bibl. Graecae, p. 147.) Yet
himself falsely places Tyro's shrine at Euchaitae, and ascribes to
him these pilgrimages and miracles which certainly belong to St.
Theodorus Stratilates, or of Heraclea.
6. De Rebus Venetis, l. 6.
7. Sansovin, l. 13, Hist. &c.
8. The modern Greeks have transferred his feast from the 7th to the
8th of February.

ST. TRESAIN, IN LATIN, TRESANUS, PRIEST, C.

He was a holy Irish priest, who, having left his own country, preached
with great zeal in France, and died curate of Mareuil upon the Marne, in
the sixth century. His relics are held in great veneration at Avenay in
Champagne. See his life in Colgan and Bollandus.

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ST. AUGULUS, B M.

HIS name occurs with the title of bishop in all the manuscript copies of
the ancient Western Martyrology, which bears the name of St. Jerom. That
of the abbey of Esternach, which is very old, and several others, style
him martyr. He probably received that crown soon after St. Alban. All
martyrologies place him in Britain, and at Augusta, which name was given
to London, as Amm. Marcellinus mentions; never to York, for which
Henschenius would have it to be taken in this place, because it was at
that time the capital of Britain. In the ancient copy of Bede's
martyrology, which was used at St. Agnan's at Orleans, he is called St.
Augustus; in some others St. Augurius. The French call him St. Aule.
Chatelain thinks him to be the same saint who is famous in some parts of
Normandy under the name of St. Ouil.

FEBRUARY VIII.

ST. JOHN OF MATHA,

FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF THE TRINITARIANS

From several bulls of Innocent III. and the many authors of his life,
especially that compiled by Robert Gagnin, the learned general of this
Order, in 1490, collected by Baillet, and the Hist. des Ordres Relig. by
F. Helyot. See also Annales Ordinis SS. Trinitatis, auctore Bon. Baro,
Ord. Minor. Romae. 1684, and Regula et Statuta Ord. SS. Trinitatis, in
12mo. 1570.

A.D. 1213.

ST. JOHN was born of very pious and noble parents, at Faucon, on the
borders of Provence, June the 24th, 11