Martyr
Felicissimus
A deacon and martyr at Rome, put to death in 258 together with Pope Sixtus II.
Life
Holy Martyr Felicissimus was a deacon of Pope Sixtus II and suffered at Rome in the year 258, in the persecution of the emperor Valerian.
Together with the deacon Agapitus, he was beheaded at the same time as Pope Sixtus. Their bodies were laid in the catacomb of Praetextatus on the Via Appia, and Pope Damasus placed over the tomb an inscription in verse, which survives in part; on a small marble plate in the chamber the names of the two saints are scratched. In the ninth century their bones were given by Pope Gregory IV to Abbot Gozbald of Niederaltaich and laid in his church at Isarhofen, and in 839 a portion of the relics reached the convent of Vreden.
The Western Church honours them on 6 or 7 August, in the new style of the Western calendar, as saints of the undivided Church.
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