MARTYROLOGY

(Gr. uaprvs, and \oyos, a descrip The name given to that department of ecclesiastical which relates to the acts and deaths of martyrs. It signifies a calendar or register kept in religious houses, were inserted the names and donations of their and the days of their death. As specimens of species of works, we may mention the Martyrotogy of which was so celebrated in the early church, but is lost; and Fox's Book of Martyrs, the most valuable record of the sufferings of the English reformers. Many the accounts in the early martyrologies are purely fabulous. See RuinarVs Acta Martyrum; Baronii, Mt-rtyroRomanum; and Middle ton's Free Inquiry. GalloTie Sanctorum Martyrum Cruciatibus, 1598, and sub editions, is a book which has had great popuiiirity the Continent. [s. 738]