Name
Telesphoros, anchorite, bishop and martyr of Rome
Saint ID
S00131
Reported Death Not Before
120
Reported Death Not After
140
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Hermits/recluses, Bishops
| ID | Title | E00254 | The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Telesphorus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00131), tells how he was an anchorite from Greece, became bishop of Rome, died a martyr, and was buried in Rome close to the body of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036) on 2 January [c. AD 137]. | 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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