Name
Gaius, bishop and martyr of Rome
Saint ID
S00661
Number in BH
BHL 7937
Reported Death Not Before
295
Reported Death Not After
296
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
| ID | Title | E00392 | The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Gaius (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00661), tells how he suffered persecution, and was buried in the cemetery of Callixtus on the Appia outside Rome, on 22 April [AD 296]. In the first edition he is described as a 'confessor', in the second as a 'martyr'. | E02515 | The Latin Martyrdom of *Susanna (virgin and martyr of Rome, S00892) narrates Susanna’s resistance, with the help of her father Gabinius and her uncle *Gaius (bishop of Rome, S00661), to plans to marry her to Diocletian’s adoptive son Maximian; the conversions and martyrdom of her relatives *Claudius, Praepedigna, Alexander, Cutia, and Maximus (martyrs of Rome, S01440); Susanna’s martyrdom in Gaius’ house, her burial in the cemetery of Alexander. Commemorative services are celebrated in Gaius’ house at the place called ad duas domos. Written presumably in Rome at the titulus Gai, between c. 450 and the 8th c., perhaps before 550. | E04729 | Latin epitaph for a certain Iovina, saying that she was buried ad domnum Gaium, perhaps in proximity of the tomb of *Gaius (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00661), also mentioning *Callixtus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00145) as the eponym of the cemetery. Found in the lower part of the cemetery of Callixtus, on the via Appia outside Rome. Probably second half of the 4th c. | E04739 | Very fragmentary Greek inscription identified as the epitaph for *Gaius (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00661), recording the day of his deposition, and naming him a bishop but not a martyr. The plaque bears traces of visitors’ graffiti. Found in the lower part of the Cemetery of Callixtus, via Appia, Rome. Probably 296. | E04868 | 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 1 July. | E05542 | Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 22 April at Rome of the laying to rest of *Gaius (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00661). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731. | E05857 | The Calendar of Willibrord, in its earliest version, records the feasts of various saints in July. Written in Latin at Echternach, Frisia (north-east Gaul), 703/710. |
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