Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
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C. Rauer, Anon (OE Martyrology): Symphorosa and her Seven Sons, Kotzor 1981, 2000-03-01, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-09-12
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Anon (OE Martyrology): Symphorosa and her Seven Sons
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
All principal MSS of Bede's Martyrology concur in naming the second son Lucianus, even though he is Julianus in the source and also at the start of the Bedan entry. Nothing in the source gives warrant for the change. Bede had a different recension of Passio S. Symphorosae from that in ASS, since he offers details about the death of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
The principal MSS of Bede's Martyrology concur in breaking off this entry mid-sentence after 'praecepit corpora'. Bede apparently had a different recension of Passio S. Symphorosae from that in ASS, since he offers details about the death of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
Bede apparently had a slightly different recension of the Passio S. Symphorosae from that printed in ASS, since his Martyrology offers details about the execution of the last two of Symphorosa's sons which have no parallel in the printed source.
