Name
Hyginus, bishop of Rome, ob. c. 140
Saint ID
S00671
Reported Death Not Before
135
Reported Death Not After
155
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
ID | Title | E01071 | The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Hyginus (bishop of Rome, S00671), states that he was buried in Rome close to the body of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036) on 11 January [AD 149]. | E05062 | 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 23 December. |
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