Saint Marcellian
- Memorial
- 18 June;
confined to local calendars since 1969
- Profile
- Born to pagan parents.
Twin brother of Saint Mark.
Convert to Christianity.
May have been a deacon.
Imprisoned for his faith during the persecution of Maximian Herculeus.
Visited in prison by Saint Sebastian who encouraged him not to give in.
Martyr.
- Died
- nailed to a post and pierced with a lance in 286;
buried near the Catacomb of Saint Domitilla;
graves re-discovered in 1902
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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