Callistus
Martyrological notice
AT Rome, on the Aurelian road, the birthday of ** blessed Callistus, pope and martyr. By order of the emperor Alexander, after being a long time kept in prison without food, and daily scourged with rods, he was finally hurled from the window of the house in which he had been shut up, and cast into a well, and thus merited the triumph awarded to conquerors. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, St. Fortu- nata, virgin and martyr, during the persecution of
Historical martyrology witness · The Roman Martyrology (English, 1916)
AT Rome, on the Aurelian road, the birthday of ** blessed Callistus, pope and martyr. By order of the emperor Alexander, after being a long time kept in prison without food, and daily scourged with rods, he was finally hurled from the window of the house in which he had been shut up, and cast into a well, and thus merited the triumph awarded to conquerors. — At Caesarea, in Palestine, St. Fortu- nata, virgin and martyr, during the persecution of