Saint Alexander I (Pope)
The sixth successor of Peter, Alexander I converted many Roman senators, including the prefect Hermes. During the reign …
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The sixth successor of Peter, Alexander I converted many Roman senators, including the prefect Hermes. During the reign …
An English nobleman who became a monk at Lérins, Benedict Biscop founded the abbeys of Wearmouth and Jarrow in the 7th c…
Daughter of Emperor Trajan and a catechumen, Drosella secretly joined a community of virgins in Rome to pray. Denounced …
A Roman general named Placidus under Trajan, he converted after seeing Christ between the antlers of a stag while huntin…
Galene and Valene were among the ten thousand Christians crucified on Mount Ararat in Greater Armenia during the reign o…
A wealthy Roman patrician converted by Pope Alexander, Hermes freed his many slaves before being arrested under Emperor …
Brother of Saint Ludger, Hildegrin was Bishop of Châlons before being sent by Charlemagne to evangelize Saxony. He occup…
Brothers from a noble family of Brescia, Faustinus (priest) and Jovita (deacon) were martyred under Emperor Hadrian in t…
Successor to Saint Alexander I in 117, Sixtus I was a Roman pope who fought against Gnostic heresy and structured eccles…
Widow of the martyr Getulius, Symphorosa was arrested in Tivoli under Emperor Hadrian with her seven sons. After refusin…
A former Secretary of State who became Patriarch of Constantinople in 784, Tarasius was the architect of the Second Coun…
Of Greek origin and an anchorite on Mount Carmel, Telesphorus became pope in the 2nd century under Emperor Hadrian. He i…
During the reign of Emperor Hadrian, nine thousand Roman soldiers led by Acacius converted to Christianity after a mirac…
Pope from 657 to 671, Vitalian navigated with caution regarding the Monothelite Emperor Constans II while restoring eccl…
An 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary, Willehald evangelized Frisia and Saxony under the protection of Charlemagne. Afte…