Rufus and Zosimus shared the chains of St. Ignatius and were martyred under Trajan (Roman emperor 98–117).
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December 18
December 18
Martyrs
Rufus and Zosimus shared the chains of St. Ignatius and were martyred under Trajan (Roman emperor 98–117). St. Polycarp wrote of them that they had not run in vain and had gone to the place the Lord had prepared for them.
Butler gives about 116; Baring-Gould, the text on this page, gives about 107. The sources differ.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Keep their day. Remember them on December 18 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: December 18
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Rufus and Zosimus's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Saint Zosimus of Rome Martyr.png · Robert444444 aka Philip K (Flickr) · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Robert444444 aka Philip K (Flickr), Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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.
