Marcellus and Apuleius are famous in the ancient martyrologies and have a mass in Pope Gelasius's Sacramentary (a book of prayers for Mass).
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October 7
October 7
Martyrs
Marcellus and Apuleius are famous in the ancient martyrologies and have a mass in Pope Gelasius's Sacramentary (a book of prayers for Mass).
In 872 the emperor Lewis II received their relics from the pope, and his wife Angilberga gave them to the nunnery she founded at Placentia, where they are especially honoured. Butler gives no date of martyrdom; the text on this page gives the first century.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Keep their day. Remember them on October 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: October 7
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Marcellus and…'s story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
