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Hieromartyr

Titus

A deacon of Rome, slain by the Goths around 410.

Feast
August 16old style August 29
Reposed
4105th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Titus was a deacon of Rome. He was put to death during the sack of Rome by the Goths, around the year 410, while he was distributing alms to the half-⁠starved population. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 16 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 29 August of the civil calendar.

Commemorated the same day August 16