Artemas was a pious Christian boy in Puteoli, in the south of Italy.Read more →

As he was about to be tied to the tail of the bull, Saturninus besought two priests who attended him to remain with him to the last.Read more →

He received priest’s orders from S. Ulric of Augsburg, and at once went to Pilgrim, Bishop of Passau, and offered himself to do mission work in Pannonia.Read more →

And as the vessels were not of glass, the mistake was not discovered till Marcellus poured the contents over the fingers of the bichop at the “ Lotio manuum.” On another occasion he poured chrism over the bishop’s hands, so…Read more →

He had been hiding as long as hiding availed, now he might as well be conducted to the prefect by his guests as by less courteous soldiers.Read more →

Victorinus, bishop of Pettau in Pannonia, wrote the earliest Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation that survives. He died a martyr, probably in 304, under Diocletian.Read more →

The last years of the Merovingian line of kings were full of struggles between the rival mayors. Gallo-Roman feeling was more prevalent in Neustria, Germanic in Austrasia.Read more →

His miracles still render his tomb famous, and his green dalmatic and the cord with which he was girded for the sacred mysteries, are of great help in the pains of parturition.Read more →