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lates the cruel treatment which he experienced at their hands : — Pri- 

 mum enim sancti viri supellectilem licet exiguam diripuerunt, postea 

 corpus verberibus afflixerunt, et jam tertio animam, meiiorem hominis 

 partem, tollere cupientes, ut Christum negare velit, solicitant. Sed cum 

 in omnibus laqueos ante oculos pennati frustra tenderent, ne quicquam 

 ad summam truculentiam immanitatemque reliqui facerent, equuleo 

 suspensum corpus flagris etaduncis ungulis diu ssevissimeque lacerando 

 usque ad denudationem costarum excarnificant. . . . Desperantes 

 igitur yictoriam, sententiam mortis super eum pronunciant, igni adju- 

 dicant. Continue ergo, celeri manu ligna congerunt, struem componunt 

 maximam, igni succendant, et S. Martyrem, aridis ruderibus dorso alli- 

 gatis (quo facilius totus in cineres solveretur) supra truculenter inji- 

 ciunt." It happened that at the same time S. Anianus, who had escaped 

 the notice of the barbarians, was released by a natural death from the 

 trials of this life ; and thus both master and disciple on the same day — 

 namely, the 17th of the Calends of December, that is, the 15th of ]!^o- 

 vember, which afterwards became the day of their commemoration — 

 passed to a happy immortality, while their remains were consigned to a 

 common tomb, where they rested for above a hundred years. At the 

 end of this period, the circumstances of their death and interment were 

 made known to an eminent and devout priest named Priam, who resided 

 in a neighbouring village. He, it is stated, communicated the matter 

 to a bishop called Tollusius, who repaired to the spot, and having or- 

 dered a solemn fast, on the third day exhumed the remains with due 

 solemnity, and conveyed them to the village of Aurisium, now known as 

 Pos,^' where they were deposited in a sarcophagus of white polished 

 marble, within the church of that place. This invention is loosely stated 

 to have occurred in the time of Pepin and Caroloman, kings of the 

 Pranks, when Egilolph was in Italy; and it is added — " Priamus praes- 

 byter, jussus a domino Episcopo Tollusio, vidi omnia et scripsi : et tes- 

 timonium his gestis perhibeo, et testimonium meum verum est, quod 

 ipse scit, qui benedictus est in ssecula. Amen." 



Prom this place the reliques of the two saints were subsequently 

 transferred to a spot near the river Aenus (now the Inn), which ob- 

 tained the name of Rota f from a little stream that flowed past it into 

 the Inn, and here they were to be seen beneath the high altar of the 

 choir. 



A Benedictine Monastery was founded at Rot, if in 1073, by Chuno, 



* A village on the Inn, between Vasserburg and Rosenheim. 



f In a charter it is styled "Rota qufe adjacet Glanne flumini" — Hundius, "Metrop., 

 Sahsburg," torn, iii., p. 265. 



J Rot is marked in Blaeu's Map of the Saltzburg Archiepiscopatus, in the north-west 

 corner, situate on the west bank of the Inn, to the N. W. of the Chianisee ; also, in the 

 map of Bavariae Ducatus, near the middle. — Geographia Germania, between pp. 81, 82, 

 and pp. 87, 88. See also Spr liner's Atlas, Deutchland, Nos. 9, 13. It and the neigh- 

 bourhood are very minutely delineated in Captain Chauchard's " General Map of the Em- 

 pire of Germany," &c., No. IX., below the middle (Lond. 1800). 



