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P. Coustant, O.S.B., Notitia altera de S. Antero papa

Editors' preface

NOTITIA ALTERA

ANOTHER NOTICE

(D. Coustant, Epistolae Rom. pont., I, 118.)

(D. Coustant, Letters of the Roman Pontiffs, I, 118.)

Anterus, uti jam e catalogis Fossatensi, Bucheriano (in quo Anteros appellatur), et reginae Suecorum audivimus, XI Kalendas Decembris, Severo et Quintiniano consulibus, hoc est anno 235, mensis Novembris 21 die, ordinatus est, atque ut in iisdem catalogis legitur, mense uno ac diebus decem in pontificatu exactis, dormiit III Nonas Januarii Maximo (leg. Maximino) et Africano consulibus, hoc est anno 236, Januarii tertio die, quo etiam memoria illius in Martyrologiis recolitur. Ut autem iste unius mensis ac decem dierum, qui Antero tribuuntur, calculus plane quadret, IX Kalendas Dec. pro XI Kalendas Dec. legendum, et ordinationis

Anterus, as we have already heard from the Fossatensian and Bucherian catalogues (in which he is called Anteros), and that of the Queen of the Swedes, was ordained on the eleventh before the Kalends of December, in the consulship of Severus and Quintinianus, that is, in the year 235, on the 21st day of the month of November, and, as is read in the same catalogues, having spent one month and ten days in the pontificate, fell asleep on the third before the Nones of January in the consulship of Maximus (read Maximinus) and Africanus, that is, in the year 236, on the third day of January, on which day also his memory is celebrated in the Martyrologies. Now in order that this calculation of one month and ten days which are assigned to Anterus may square exactly, Tillemont observes that the ninth before the Kalends of December must be read instead of the eleventh before the Kalends of December, and that the days of the ordination

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Footnotes

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non probat. Ant. Aug. in cap. 62 coll. Adriani papae.

Not accepted by Antonius Augustinus, on chapter 62 of the collection of Pope Hadrian.

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Siricius ep. 2.

Siricius, letter 2.

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Joan. VIII, 44.

John 8:44.

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Suspecta pariter viris doctis vel ex unius Hieronymi segmentis.

Likewise held suspect by learned men, if only from its fragments of Jerome alone.

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sicut et mortis Anteri dies numerandos non esse Tillemontius observat. In vetusto Corbeiensi codice mensis unus ac dies undecim Antero ascribuntur. Eusebius quidem unum duntaxat mensem memorat : sed nihil inde adversus illos dies conficitur. Quemadmodum enim historicus ille in aliis pontificibus quot quisque annos apostolicam sedem tenuerit, non adjunctis mensibus aut diebus, indicare satis habet, ita et hic ubi dies omittit, nihil ab hoc more suo alienum facit.

as well as of the death of Anterus, are not to be counted. In the ancient Corbie codex one month and eleven days are ascribed to Anterus. Eusebius indeed mentions only one month; but nothing is proved thence against those days. For just as that historian, in the case of the other pontiffs, deems it enough to indicate how many years each held the apostolic see, without adding months or days, so here too, where he omits the days, he does nothing foreign to this custom of his.

Anteri circumfertur unica epistola, quae Isidorum parentem habuit.

There is circulated a single epistle of Anterus, which had Isidore for its parent.

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Footnotes

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I Cor. XV, 32.

1 Corinthians 15:32.

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idem Siricius.

The same, Siricius.

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Exstat etiam elegans epigramma Ausonii ad notarium suum velociter excipientem, his versibus contentum: Quam praepetis dextrae fuga / Tu me loquentem praevenis! / Quis, quaeso, quis me prodidit? / Quis ista jam dixit tibi, / Quae cogitabam dicere? / Quae furta corde in intimo / Exercet ales dextera? / Quis ordo rerum tam novus, / Veniat in aures ut tuas / Quod lingua nondum absolverit? Quae igitur Acta martyrum, jussu Clementis, per notarios fideliter conscripta fuerant, ea Anterus pontifex diligenter conquisivit, et ne vel interirent, vel ab ethnicis corrumperentur, in ecclesia recondidit. Quamobrem ad Julium Maximinum imperatorem, qui sacerdotibus cruentum bellum indixerat, delatus, per Vitalianum aut Sabinum Maximini praefectos martyrio afficitur die 3 Januarii, coss. Maximino et Africano, quorum consulatus cum anno Christi 238 et anno 2 imperii Maximini coincidit. SEV. BIN.

There is also an elegant epigram of Ausonius to his secretary taking him down at speed, in these verses: "With what flight of a swift right hand you outrun me as I speak! Who, pray, who has betrayed me? Who has already told you what I was meaning to say? What thefts does that winged right hand practise in the inmost heart? What order of things is this, so new, that there should come to your ears what my tongue has not yet finished?" The Acts of the martyrs, then, that had been faithfully written down by notaries at Clement's order, Pope Anterus diligently gathered and stored away in the church, so that they should neither perish nor be corrupted by the heathen. For this he was denounced to the emperor Julius Maximinus, who had declared a bloody war on the priests, and through Vitalianus or Sabinus, Maximinus's prefects, he suffered martyrdom on 3 January, in the consulship of Maximinus and Africanus, which coincides with the year of Christ 238 and the second year of Maximinus's reign. Severinus Binius.

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De mutatione episcoporum. Pontifex de sedibus episcopalibus transferendis et transmutandis consultus, hac epistola docet, et exemplo Petri apostoli aliorumque plurium probat translationem sedis episcopalis licitam esse, si utilitate et necessitate alterius Ecclesiae exigente fiat cum superiorum episcoporum cognitione et consensu; si vero vel ex avaritia, vel ambitione aut praesumptione, ac sola propria voluntate episcopus sedem mutet, illicitum est, et apostolica lege, quae exstat canon. apostol. 14, interdictum. Unde cum tempore Nicaeni concilii ex Antiochenis, alii Eusebium Caesariensem, alii Eustachium Beroensem antistitem non sine turba totius populi expeterent, sacrosancta synodus sanctissime id, quod ab apostolis constitutum jam ante fuerat, confirmavit, ne episcopi, presbyteri atque (continues)

On the change of bishops. The pontiff, consulted about transferring and changing episcopal sees, teaches in this letter, and proves by the example of the apostle Peter and of many others, that the translation of an episcopal see is lawful if it is done, when the benefit and need of another Church require it, with the knowledge and consent of the superior bishops; but if a bishop changes his see out of avarice, or ambition or presumption, and by his own will alone, it is unlawful, and forbidden by the apostolic law that stands as Apostolic Canon 14. Hence when, at the time of the Council of Nicaea, some of the people of Antioch sought Eusebius of Caesarea and others Eustathius, bishop of Beroea, as their prelate, not without an uproar of the whole people, the most holy synod most holily confirmed what had already been laid down by the apostles, that bishops, priests and (continues)

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