Name
Anteros, bishop and martyr of Rome
Saint ID
S00170
Reported Death Not Before
226
Reported Death Not After
246
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
| ID | Title | E00342 | The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Anteros (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00170), tells of the care he took to collect the written acts of the martyrs, in which he was prompted by the presbyter and martyr Maximus/Maximinus (perhaps *Maximus/Maximilianus, martyr of Rome, buried on the via Salaria vetus, S00173), and records Anteros' own martyrdom, and burial in the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia outside Rome, on 3 January [AD 236]. | E04583 | 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 3 January. | E05070 | 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 31 December. | E05073 | Fragmentary Greek epitaph for *Anteros (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00170). Found at the cemetery of Callixtus, via Appia, outside Rome. Probably 236. | E05406 | Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 3 January at Rome of *Anteros (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00170). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731. | E07892 | The Itinerarium Malmesburiense, a guide to saints' graves around and within Rome, lists those outside the porta Appia on the via Appia, south of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683. |
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