Novatus

Saint Novatus was the son of the Roman senator Pudens and the brother of the holy Praxedes and Pudentiana, and of the martyr Timotheus. His grandfather, the senator Quintus Cornelius Pudens, with his wife Priscilla, was among the earliest converts of the holy Apostle Peter at Rome, and the apostle dwelt in their house. A part of the present church of Santa Pudenziana is thought to belong to the senatorial palace or to the baths built by Novatus. According to the fifth-⁠century church historian Philostorgius, Novatus was of Phrygian descent. He reposed around 151.

He is commemorated on 20 June among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.