ST. MARCELLUS I, POPE AND MARTYR, ST PRISCILLA, ROMAN MATRON Jan. 16

ST. MARCELLUS I, POPE AND MARTYR

Jan 16, 2018 · In Rome on the Via Salaria, the natal day Not his birthday but the day he died and was "born again" into Heaven of St. Marcellus I, Pope and Martyr. Because he professed the Catholic faith, the tyrant Maxentius ordered that he be beaten with cudgels and then made to serve the animals in a public stable.Jan. 16

ST PRISCILLA, ROMAN MATRON

Priscilla was a Roman matron of the first century. Some have identified her with the wife of Aquila, engaged in the first Christian catechesis; or with the founder of a cemetery named for her on the Via Salaria, who received St Paul as a guest. According to others, she was a freed slave.  Jan. 16