Lucius

Saint Lucius, Martyr, suffered at Rome, in the time of the emperor Antoninus Pius, and is mentioned by Saint Justin Martyr in his Second Apology. He is commemorated on 19 October together with Ptolemaeus.

The Roman Martyrology says that Ptolemaeus, as Justin relates, had brought an immodest woman to the faith and taught her to live in chastity. A profligate man accused him before the prefect Urbicius, and Ptolemaeus was condemned to languish a long time in a filthy dungeon; as he declared by a public confession that Christ was his master, he was led to execution. Lucius, disapproving the sentence of Urbicius and freely avowing that he was a Christian, received the same sentence. A third was added to them, condemned to like punishment. He is a saint of the undivided Church.