The use of patristic homilies in the Old English Martyrology
J. E. Cross
The earlier editors of the Old English Martyrology (OEM), T. O. Cockayne and George Herzfeld, recognized that some notices, or phrases within drew on homilies by named patristic writers. identified two entries which closely echoed sentences from Gregory's Homiliae in Evangelia , for Emiliana (5 January) Homilia xxxviii.15 Cassius (29 June) xxxvii.9. Herzfeld added more, Processus Martinianus (2 July) xxxii.7 Felicitas (23 November) iii.3. Also, guided Ruinart, a passage Augustine's Sermo cccix.4 entry Cyprian Carthage (14 September). oversight, had actually ascribed his Latin quotation (cited Addenda) to Fulgentius Ruspe's vi, although Fulgentius's sermon probably did influence one other phrase notice.
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