Getulus, Caerealis, Amantius and Primitivus

Saints Getulus, Caerealis, Amantius and Primitivus, Martyrs, suffered at Rome, on the Via Salaria, in the time of the emperor Hadrian. They are commemorated on 10 June.

The Roman Martyrology calls Getulus a noble and very learned man. By order of Hadrian, they were arrested by the ex-⁠consul Licinius, scourged, thrown into prison, and then delivered to the flames. Because the fire did not harm them, their heads were crushed with clubs, and thus they ended their martyrdom. Their bodies were taken up by Symphorosa, the wife of Getulus, and reverently buried in a sandpit on her own estate. They are saints of the undivided Church.