Cataldus

The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 05, May · S. Cataldus, B. of Tarentum.

S. Cataldus, B. of Tarentum.

S. Comgall, Ah. of B anchor in Ireland, a.d. 601.

S. Solangia, V.M. at Bourses, about a.d. 844.

S. Isidore the Husbandman, C. at Madrid, circ. a.d. 1130.

SS. CALEPODIUS, P.M., AND OTHERS MM

(a.d. 222.)

[Roman and other Latin Martyrologies. Authorities : — The Acts, which are, however, fabulous, form a part of those of S. Calixtus, and pretend to have been written by the Notaries of the Roman Church ; but they are forgeries. The account of S. Calepodius begins, “ In the days of Macrinus and Alexander, a great fire occurred which consumed the south of the Capitol. ” Now Macrinus was killed in 218 and was succeeded by Helio- gabalus, who was murdered in 224, and then only was the boy Alexander invested with the purple. Moreover, the description given of Alexander, his desiring the consul to persecute the Christians, is quite opposed to history.

It is true that some Christians suffered at the beginning of his reign, but that was through the severity of Ulpian the regent. In the Acts, however, it is Alexander himself who directs the persecution. Then again the consul at the time is Palmatius. There was no such consul at the time, and none of the name occur in the Fasti Consulares, so that the forgery is as clumsy as it is dishonest.]

CCORDING to the very untrustworthy Acts, about the year 222 a fire broke out in Rome, and the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus was so injured, that the golden hand of the idol was melted off.1 Alexander the Emperor consulted the augurs, who declared

1 History knows nothing of this fire.

Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness

Apud Tarentum sancti Cataldi Episcopi, miraculis clari.