The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, 1591-1610

p. 239. VENERABLE CONFESSORS ST. BARLAAM AND ST. JOSAPHAT: This is found in the record of St. John Damascene An early edition of this legend is "Historia duorum Christi militum, è Graeco in Latinum versa," in Beati Ioannis Damasceni orthodoxae fidei accurata explicatio, IIII libris distincta, Basileae, 1548 (Bodleian)..

p. 275. LIFE OF ST. EUSTACE, and the manner of his martyrdom: This is to be found in the first volume written by St. Antoninus Or, Petrus de Natalibus, Bishop of Isola in the Venetian territory in 372. He completed a catalogue of saints, with their lives, first published at Vicenza in 1493, and again at Leyden in 1543., and in the writings of the Bishop called Petrus de Natalibus.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

p. 3. Concerning the life of the PATRIARCH JOSEPH.

p. 43. LIFE AND MANNER OF THE TRIUMPHANT MARTYRDOM OF THE GLORIOUS MARTYR ST. SEBASTIAN. Although contained in ordinary books, it is especially made known in a certain chapter of the first volume written by St. Antoninus. Jan. 20 The Lyons edition of the Chronicon, of 1586, has the following note: "Haec S. Sebastiani vita in linguam Iaponicam translata singularem animi constantiam addidit cuidam adolescenti ex illis remotissimis regionibus Catholicae religionis neophyto..." (This life of St. Sebastian, translated into the Japanese language, added singular constancy of mind to a certain youth from those most remote regions, a neophyte of the Catholic religion. For when the devil strained every nerve of his ministers to call him away from the Catholic religion, and every access to the fathers of the Society of Jesus for his consolation and strengthening was blocked, they took care that this life of St. Sebastian should come into his hands, by which he was confirmed and achieved a wonderful victory over the demon and his followers; read the Japanese letter of P. Luis Frois written on the sixth of June, 1577.) This letter of Frois was published under the title of Brevis Iapaniae insulae descriptio, Col. Agripp. 1582, and the passage referred to will be found on f. 9 near the bottom of the page. But it does not refer by name to St. Antoninus's life of St. Sebastian. Still, the note in the Chronicon shows that before the introduction of Roman type into Japan, there existed manuscript lives of the saints, and the present collection may have circulated for years previous to its being printed..

p. 61. THE MANNER OF THE GLORIOUS MARTYRDOM OF THE VIRGIN SAINT CATHERINE. This is found in the record of the man named Simeon Metaphrastes. Nov. 25.

p. 86. LIFE OF SAINT ALEXIUS, CONFESSOR. This is found in the record of the man named Simeon Metaphrastes.

p. 109. LIFE OF SAINT EUGENIA VIRGIN, and her servants Prothus and Jacinthus, and the life of St. Hyacinth, with the manner of their martyrdom. This appears in the Vitas Patrum Hieronymus In vitas Patrum. Lugduni, 1520. written by St. Jerome and in the first volume written by St. Antoninus. Dec. 25.

p. 141. LIFE OF THE FIRST MARTYR, ST. STEPHEN, AND THE MANNER OF HIS MARTYRDOM.