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many of the Latin manuscripts of the Pseudo-Abdian Passio, and is also not included in
the later Icelandic versions of the saga, including Codex Scardensis. The Legenda
Aurea, which gives an account of Philip’s capture by the infidels and his subsequent
crucifixion, states that this account is derived from Isidore’s De Ortu et Obitu Patrum
(PL 83:152); Isidore’s version may in turn be derived from Jerome’s translation of the
Chronicon of Eusebius.57
Group C
Clement (AM 645): A combination of material derived ultimately from the Pseudo-
Clementine Recognitiones (chapters 1-5 in Unger, which describe Clement’s travels
with Peter, the reunions of members of Clement’s family, and Peter’s disputation with
the heretic Simon Magus),58 and a version of the Passio of St. Clement parallel to that
given in Mombritius (I:341-344),59 dealing with certain episodes involving miracles
that occurred during Clement’s episcopate, Clement’s martyrdom, and the miracle that
occurs yearly at his tomb (chapters 7-8 in Unger).60 The saga is also based on material
derived from the Epistle of Clement to James (Epistula Clementis), which was often
attached to manuscript editions of the Recognitions,61 the Martyrium S. Clementis of
Simeon Metaphrastes, which came to be included in Greek epitomes of the Pseudo-
Clementine Recognitions, and the Martyrium Clementis, a 4th-century legend of St.
Clement written by Bishop Ephraem of Cherson (d. 373).62 Dietrich Hofmann
(1997:88, 103-5, and 155-6) suggests that the compiler of Clement’s saga used the
57 See Jacobus de Voragine 1969:292, and Mombritius II: 385.41-42 („Post haec Infideles
ipsum tenuerunt: et cruci Instar magistri eius quem prædicabat affixerunt“). See also the
appendix to Mombritius, II:714: „Be. Traditionem de crucifixione Philippi refert Hiero-
nymus, Chron., an. 12 Claudii: ‘Philippus apostolus Christi apud Hierapolim Asiæ civitatem,
dum Evangelium populo nuntiaret, cruci affixus lapidibus opprimitur.’“
58 Cf. BHL 6644, Rufinus of Aquileia’s (ca. 345-410) Latin translation of the lost Greek
Recognitiones, although the 645 text departs radically from this text.
59 Mombritius I:341.21-344.47. AM 645 omits the second of the two appended miracles derived
from Gregory of Tours’ Liber in Gloria martyrum (see BHL 1854-1856).
60 Cf. BHL 1848, the Passio Sancti Claementis Papae et Martyris, which itself is derived from
the Historia et Vita S. Clementis given in the Beauxamis edition of the Pseudo-Abdian
Historia certaminis apostolici; BHL 1848 also cites the Lazius and Faber editions of the
Pseudo-Abdian collection.
61 The letter (along with a Latin translation of it by Rufinus), is reprinted in PG 2:31-56.
62 Simeon’s Martyrium S. Clementis, which narrates the events that occurred during Clement’s
papacy beginning with the Sisinnius episode and ending with Clement’s martyrdom, is the
basis for the Historia et Vita S. Clementis included in the Pseudo-Abdian editions. Simeon’s
Martyrium is reprinted in PG 2:617-632 (from the edition of Cotelier 1672). A portion of the
Martyrium is given in Simeon’s Vita Sanctorum, published in PG 116:179-190. Bishop
Ephraem of Cherson’s (d. 373) Martyrium Clementis is the Grundschrift for the Clement
vita. His De miraculo quod in puero factum est a S. Clemente Sacro Martyre is published in
PG 2:633-646 (and is also included in Simeon’s Martyrium).