Hyginus

Who they were

Hyginus succeeded Telesphorus as bishop of Rome around 138 and reigned about four years. The Liber Pontificalis says he was a Greek. In his time the Gnostic teachers Valentinus and Cerdo were active in Rome; Cerdo recanted, then fell back and was expelled. He was buried on the Vatican Hill near St Peter.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: Hyginus has been honoured as a saint since the early Church. The ancient sources do not say that he died a martyr.

Why that counted as sanctity

Hyginus guarded the faith of the Roman Church in the years when Gnostic teachers first sought to reshape it.