Natalis Comes [SEP] date of birth
Natalis Comes
Natale Conti or Latin Natalis Comes, also Natalis de Comitibus and French Noël le Comte (1520–1582) was an Italian mythographer, poet, humanist and historian. His major work "Mythologiae", ten books written in Latin, was first published in Venice in 1567 and became a standard source for classical mythology in later Renaissance Europe. It was reprinted in numerous editions; after 1583, these were appended with a treatise on the Muses by Geoffroi Linocier. By the end of the 17th century, his name was
death, or birth into heaven, a date therefore referred to in Latin as the martyr's "dies natalis" ('day of birth'). In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a calendar of saints is called a "Menologion". "Menologion" may also mean a set of icons on which saints are depicted in the order of the dates of their feasts, often made in two panels.
History.
As the number of recognized saints increased during Late Antiquity and the first half of the Middle Ages