Ptolemaeus

Saint Ptolemaeus, 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 Lucius.

The Roman Martyrology says, following Justin's account, that Ptolemaeus had brought an immodest woman to faith in Christ 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. Because he declared by a public confession that Christ was his master, he was led to execution. Lucius, who disapproved the sentence, received the same punishment, and a third was added to them. He is a saint of the undivided Church.