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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Marcellinus, bishop and martyr of Rome, and companion martyrs

Saint ID

S00660

Reported Death Not Before

303

Reported Death Not After

304

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops , Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00398The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Marcellinus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00660), tells of his martyrdom with three others, Claudius, Quirinus/Cyrinus and Antoninus, and their burial in the cemetery of Priscilla on the via Salaria nova outside Rome, close to the body of *Criscentio (Crescentio, martyr of Rome, buried on the via Salaria, S00530), on 25 April [AD 304].
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.
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.
E05545Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 26 April of the laying to rest of *Marcellinus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00660), on the via Salaria, after his martyrdom. Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731.
E06998The 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.
E0831535 relic labels at Sens (northern Gaul), datable by their script to the 7th or 8th c., for relics of a great diversity of saints. Written in Latin, perhaps at Sens, or at an earlier stage in their transmission.