[1] As Hippolyte Delehaye writes, "To have lived among the Savior's immediate following was...honorable...and accordingly old patrons of churches were identified with certain persons in the gospels or who were supposed to have had some part of Christ's life on earth.

There, around 304 during the religious persecutions led by Emperor Diocletian,[3] Hermagoras, or Hermogenes, was a lector and Fortunatus a deacon.

However, Venantius Fortunatus did not mention Hermagoras in his works, but mentioned the name of Fortunatus twice: once in a life of Martin of Tours: Ac Fortunati benedictam urnam, and the second time in his Miscellanea: Et Fortunatum fert Aquileiam suum.

[1] The Martyrologium Hieronymianum mentions Hermagoras, but in a corrupted form: Armageri, Armagri, Armigeri.

[1] Hermagoras' name survives in the Carinthian city of Hermagor, in the modern state of Austria.

The oldest Slovene publishing house, established in 1851, is named the Hermagoras Society (Mohorjeva družba).