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Holy Martyrs

Paul, Heraclius, Secundilla and Januaria

Four martyrs remembered together, killed around the year 305; few details survive.

Feast
March 2old style March 15
Reposed
3054th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Paul, Heraclius, Secundilla and Januaria were martyrs who suffered under Diocletian at Porto Romano, at the mouth of the Tiber in Italy, around the year 305. They are remembered on 2 March in the Western calendar (new style).

No other details have been preserved. They are honoured as saints of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.

Commemorated the same day March 2