Pope Honorius I, in a letter of 626, mentions the shrine of *Abdos and Sennes (Persian martyrs of Rome, S00573) on the via Portuensis, outside Rome. Written in Latin in Rome.
E06879
Documentary texts - Letters
Pope Honorius I, Letter to Servusdei the notary ('Quotiens a nobis', JE 2013/JH 3229)
Reply to a request from a notary named Servusdei to rent property belonging to the church.
[...] Ideoque quia petisti a nobis, ut casale, quod qppellatur Aurelianum, in integro una cum uineis suis positum uia Portuensi iuxta sanctos Abdon et Sennen, praestantem auri solidos II et semis iuris sanctae Romanae, cui deo auctore deseruimus, ecclesiae, tibi ad certum tempus debemus concedere. [...]
'... And so, because you have asked us that the farm, which is called "Aurelianus", in its entirety together with its vineyards, positioned on the via Portuensis, next to [the shrine of] saints Abdos and Sennes, rendering two and a half gold solidi, which is of the property of the holy Roman church that, by the authority of God, we serve, we should grant to you for a fixed period. ...'
Text: Wolf von Glanvell 1905, 327.
Translation: Frances Trzeciak.
Burial site of a saint - unspecified
Source
Letter of Pope Honorius I (625-638). It survives through being included in the Collection of Canons (Collectio canonum) of Cardinal Deusdedit, issued in 1087 (Collectio canonum 3.139 (118)). See Kéry 1999, 228.Collections like that of Deusdedit made use of genuine material from the papal archives, but they were not compiled for historical or documentary purposes but as sources of canon law. The compilers therefore frequently edited the original letters to remove material (usually including the date) which was not relevant to the point of canon law they were cited to illustrate.
Atypically, the text of the letter to Servusdei in Deusdedit's Collectio includes the original date, 12 May 626.
Discussion
A clear reference to the burial site and shrine on the via Portuensis of the Persian martyrs of Rome, Abdos and Semnes.Bibliography
Editions:Wolf von Glanvell, V., Die Kanonessammlung des Kardinals Deusdedit (Paderborn, 1905).
Patrologia Latina 80, 480-481.
Further reading:
Kéry, L., Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature (Washington DC, 1999).
Frances Trzeciak and David Lambert
20/10/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00573 | Abdos and Semnes, Persian martyrs of Rome | Abdon, Sennes | Certain |
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