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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Gratilianus and Felicissima, martyrs of Faleri in central Italy

Saint ID

S01477

Number in BH

BHL 2779

Gender
Male
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02493The Latin Martyrdom of *Euticius (priest and martyr of Ferento, S01228) narrates Euticius’ celebration of liturgy at the tomb of the martyrs *Gratilianus and Felicissima (martyrs of Faleri, S01477), his arrest, tortures endured and death, and his burial by the bishop Dionysius in a crypt fifteen miles outside Ferento (near Viterbo, north of Rome), where later, according to an appendix, a church with a miraculous spring is built. Written presumably in the region of Ferento, at an uncertain date between the 6th and the 9th c.
E05030The 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.