Name
Siricius, bishop of Rome, ob. 399, buried on the via Salaria
Saint ID
S00527
Reported Death Not Before
399
Reported Death Not After
399
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
| ID | Title | E00637 | The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Salaria nova, north-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649. | E01274 | The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Siricius (bishop of Rome, ob. 399, S00527), states that he was buried in the cemetery of Priscilla on the via Salaria outside Rome, on 22 February [AD 399]. | E05030 | 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 24 November. | E05963 | In the Latin Whitby Life of *Gregory the Great, (bishop of Rome, ob. 604, S00838), the author reports that the saint extinguished the light (at the tomb?) of the pope (presumably *Siricius, bishop of Rome, ob. 399, S00527) who had banished *Jerome (Church Father, ob. S00267); and that he later caused the death of his successor (Pope Sabinianus, ob. 606) for denigrating his own memory. Written by a monk or nun of Whitby (north-east Britain), 685/714, perhaps 704/14. | E06998 | The De Locis Sanctis, a guide to the graves of the martyrs around Rome, lists those on the via Salaria nova, north-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683. |
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