Marcellinus
martyr killed in 304 AD
Feast: 2 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Marcellinus is honoured together with others as Marcellinus and Peter. From that page:
In 304, during Diocletian's great persecution, the priest Marcellinus and the exorcist Peter were arrested in Rome under the edict against the clergy, and beheaded in a wood outside the city, the 'Black Forest', afterwards called the 'White Forest'.
Their bodies were buried in the cemetery 'ad duas lauros' on today's Via Casilina, where the catacombs of Sts Marcellinus and Peter are among the most famous in the world. Pope Damasus wrote a poem for their tomb, and Pope Vigilius put their names in the Canon of the Mass.
Shared write-up of the group, until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Marcellinus and Peter Saint honoured together
- Wikidata Q1893302 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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