Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. X, 1953 Saints & hagiography Saints

Romanus, Saint, Martyr

ROMANO, SANTO, MARTIRE

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ROMANUS, Saint, Martyr. - He is commemorated in the Hieronymian Martyrology on 9 August.

The Itineraries of the 7th century remember him as buried on the Via Tiburtina in the cemetery of Cyriaca, longe in spelunca deorum. According to the author of the Liber Pontificalis he held the office of ostiarius and perished together with St. Lawrence. According to the legendary Passio s. Polychronii, however, he was a soldier converted by the martyrdom of Lawrence, beheaded outside the Porta Salaria and buried in a crypt of the ager Veranus.

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BIBL.: Lib. Pont., I, p. 155; Acta SS. Augusti, II, Paris 1867, pp. 408-10; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 428; Martyr. Romanum, p. 331; R. Valentini and G. Zucchetti, Codice topografico della città di Roma, II, Rome 1942, p. 82.

Agostino Amore

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X (1953), col. 1310.

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Amore, Agostino. “Romano, santo, martire.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 1310. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/romano-santo-martire-2.

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Amore, Agostino. “Romano, santo, martire.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1310. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/romano-santo-martire-2.

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  author    = {Amore, Agostino},
  title     = {Romano, santo, martire},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {X},
  pages     = {1310},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/romano-santo-martire-2}
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