Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Map 1. The intra-urban churches dedicated to Roman martyrs
Map 2. Suburban cemeteries housing shrines to Roman martyrs
Introduction
TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES
I. St Felicitas and her seven sons
II. SS. Anastasia, Chrysogonus and companions
III. St Sebastian and companions
IV. St Caecilia and companions
V. Pope Clement
VI. SS. Sixtus, Laurence, and Hippolytus (passio vetus)
VII. Pope Cornelius
VIII. SS. Nereus and Achilleus and companions
IX. SS. Eugenia, Protus and Hyacinthus
X. SS. Chrysanthus and Daria
XI. St Susanna
XII. Pope Callistus
XIII. St Eusebius the priest
XIV. Pope Felix II
XV. SS. Pudentiana and Praxedis
XVI. SS. Polychronius and Parmenius, Abdon and Sennes, Pope Sixtus II, Laurence, and Hippolytus
XVII. SS. Agnes and Emerentiana
XVIII. SS. Gallicanus, John and Paul
XIX. SS. Processus and Martinianus
XX. Pope Marcellus and companions
XXI. SS. Primus and Felicianus
XXII. SS. Marius and Martha
XXIII. SS. Marcellinus and Peter
XXIV. The Four Crowned Martyrs
XXV. St Pancratius
XXVI. Pope Stephen
XXVII. SS. Gordianus and Epimachus
XXVIII. The Greek Martyrs
XXIX. SS. Eusebius and Pontianus
XXX. Pope Urban
XXXI. SS. Rufina and Secunda
XXXII. SS. Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus
XXXIII. SS. Calogerus and Parthenius
XXXIV. SS. Serapia and Sabina
XXXV. SS. Felix and Adauctus
XXXVI. SS. Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
XXXVII. St Symphorosa and her seven sons
XXXVIII. St Pigmenius
XXXIX. St Getulius
XL. St Basilides
Appendix I: THE DEPOSITIO MARTYRVM (A.D. 354)
Appendix II: THE EPIGRAMMATA OF DAMASUS
Appendix III: ROMAN MARTYRS IN THE MARTYROLOGIVM
Appendix IV: SEVENTH-CENTURY PILGRIM ITINERARIES TO ROMAN CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES
Appendix V: THE COMMEMORATION OF ROMAN MARTYRS IN EARLY ROMAN LITURGICAL BOOKS
Glossary
Bibliography

About the Author

Michael Lapidge is Professor Emeritus of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His publications include Hilduin of Saint-Denis (Brill, 2017) and Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England Up to 1100 (University of Toronto Press, 2016). He is the co-editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England
(Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

Reviews

Lapidge has made an inestimable contribution to Early Church studies. The work captures the ecclesiastical ethos at the time of the passions, both in Christian values and the counter-values of paganism... the collection of information about each martyr, source and hagiography is unparalleled. Most important, the author provides martyrdom accounts in English of the hagiography still dominating the landscape of ecclesiastical Rome.
*Brian Shelton, Toccoa Falls College, Georgia, Journal of Ecclesiastical History*

Lapidge's book about the passiones is outstanding.
*Raymond Van Dam, Speculum*

Lapidge's contribution is, on its own terms, nothing short of a magnum opus. It is an indispensable reference work for those in classics and late antique studies, as well as those curious about the way that martyrdom is crafted in peacetime literature.
*Candida Moss, Reading Religion*