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Tobit; to these IV Esdras (not a canonical book) adds Jeremiel and Uriel, names not admitted by the Church.
There
has been preserved for us a most interesting calendar for the city of
Borne, written by Furius Dionysius Filo-calus in 354 a.D., and
containing a series of drawings by his hand showing the symbolical
figures of the months of the year. Though the original manuscript is
lost, several apparently faithful copies exist, one of which is in the
Imperial Library in Vienna. Much of this work deals with matters
referring to the Roman calendar, but perhaps its most valuable part is
a list of the early Christian saints and martyrs. As this is the
earliest list of the kind, of even earlier date than the rest of the
work, we give it here unabridged, as a most interesting documentary
proof of the veneration in which the saints were held in the fourth,
or, we should probably say, in the third century,
