Saint sixtus v

August 7: Saint Sixtus II, Pope and Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs—Optional Memorial

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Patron Saint of Bellegra, Italy
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red
Version: Full – Short

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Quote:
He was crowned with martyrdom.

St. cajetan, priest, founder of theatines

He was bishop in the time of Valerian and Decius, when there was the great persecution. At that time he was seized by Valerian and taken to offer sacrifice to demons. But he despised the commands of Valerian. He was beheaded and with him six others, all deacons, Felicissimus, Agapitus, Januarius, Magnus, Vincentius and Stephen, about August 6…And after the passion of the blessed Sixtus, on the third day, Lawrence, his archdeacon, suffered also, August 10, likewise the subdeacon Claudius and Severus, the priest, and Crescentius, the reader, and Romanus, the doorkeeper…He himself was buried in the cemetery of Cal