Martyr
Herculanus
A martyr slain for Christ at Rome around 180.
- Feast
- September 5old style September 18
- Reposed
- 1802nd century
- Place
- Rome
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Herculanus was a martyr at Porto near Rome, probably under the emperor Marcus Aurelius, around the year 180. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 5 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 18 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.
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