Jason of Rome

Saint Jason, martyr, was a Christian of Rome, of the company of Saint Chrysanthus and Saint Daria, put to death under the emperor Numerian, around the year 282. He is a saint honoured by all Christendom. The Orthodox commemorate him on 19 March, and the Catholics on 3 December.

He was the son of the tribune Claudius and his wife Hilaria, and the brother of Maurus. According to the life of Saints Chrysanthus and Daria, Claudius and his children, Maurus and Jason, still young, were condemned to death. Jason and Maurus were beheaded at Rome together with seventy of their father's soldiers, whom Chrysanthus had brought to Christianity. Claudius was drowned.

Hilaria died at the tomb of her husband and sons, in an underground cave beside the Via Salaria.