Name
Linus, bishop and martyr of Rome
Saint ID
S00110
Reported Death Not Before
65
Reported Death Not After
75
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
ID | Title | E00267 | The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Linus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00110), tells that he died a martyr and was buried in Rome close to the body of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036) on 23 September [AD 67]. | E05062 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 23 December. |
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