The martyrology is compiled in the form of a calendar with names to be read out each day by such communities as monasteries, convents and seminaries. |
Exemplary as this Irish martyr may be, the priest is unable to identify him because he does not feature in the standard martyrology of Irish nationalism. |
This is an indication of how nineteenth-century nationalist martyrology diffused throughout Ireland and was integrated into local tradition. |
And for one who was now wallowing in the martyrology, penance was the mortification of the flesh. |
A martyrology recently discovered in Turin was also composed in the second half of the 12th cent. and shows signs of having been composed in the midlands. |
The most famous is that of Usuard, on which the Roman martyrology was based. |