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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Marcus, bishop of Rome, ob. 336

Saint ID

S00420

Reported Death Not Before

336

Reported Death Not After

338

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00684The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Ardeatina, south of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649.
E01051The Depositio Episcoporum, a list of the burials of the bishops of Rome deceased between 255 and 352, gives both the day of the year and the place of their burial; from the so-called Chronography of 354, compiled in Latin in Rome, c. 354.
E01060The Liber Pontificalis, written Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Marcus (bishop of Rome, S00420), states that he was buried in the cemetery of Balbina on the via Ardeatina outside Rome, on 6 October [AD 336].
E04967The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 25 September.
E04975The 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 October.
E04976The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 4 October.
E04979The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 7 October.
E05009The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 5 November.
E05798Agnellus of Ravenna, in his Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis, quotes a Latin funerary inscription of c. 595 from a monasterium dedicated to *Marcus (bishop of Rome, ob. 336, S00420), *Marcellus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00529), and *Felicula (virgin and martyr of Rome, S02148). The monasterium was located in the church of *Apollinaris (bishop and martyr of Ravenna, S00331) in Classe (near Ravenna, northern Italy). Account written in Ravenna in 830/846.
E05848Latin epitaph, found in the basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura on the via Nomentana, Rome, recording the day of death of an acolyte of the titulus-church of Vestina (later San Vitale) by referring to the feast (dies natalis) of *Marcus (bishop of Rome, ob. 336, S00420), held in October. Probably 6th c.
E06362The decrees of a synod held by Pope Gregory the Great in 595 in St Peter’s basilica, Rome, are subscribed by presbyters from many of the city's titular churches, all dedicated to saints (Register 5.57a). Written in Latin in Rome.
E06400Gregory the Great in a papal letter (Register 9.169) of 599, to Castor, papal notary in Ravenna, mentions a gift to a monastery dedicated to *Marcus (bishop of Rome, ob. 336, S00420), *Marcellus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00529) and *Felicula (virgin and martyr of Rome, S02148) in Ravenna (northern Italy). Written in Latin in Rome.
E06912The Cymiteria totius Romanae urbis lists 17 cemeteries around the city of Rome, giving their original names and the name of a prominent saint (or saints) buried there. Presumably written in Rome, possibly in the 6th c.
E06991The De Locis Sanctis, a guide to the graves of the martyrs around Rome, lists those on the via Ardeatina, south of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683.
E07892The 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.