Pomposa
Martyrological notice
At Cordova, in the persecution of the Arabians, of St. Pomposa, virgin and martyr.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 10, September · S. Pomposa, V.M. at Cordova ; a.d. 853.
S. Pomposa, V.M. at Cordova ; a.d. 853.
S. Arnulph, B. of Gap ; circ. a.d. 1074.
SS. J ANUARIUS, B.M., AND OTHERS, MM.
(about a.d. 305.)
jj]AINT JANUARIUS is said to have been Bishop of Benevento, but a native of Naples. He often wen visited Miseno, where was a deacon of rare merit, named Sosius, of the age of thirty years, with whom he contracted a warm friendship. Sosius was arrested by Dracontius, Governor of Campania, and was thrown into prison, where he found Proculus, deacon of the
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church of Pozzuoli, Eutyches, and Acutius, citizens of the same town and earnest Christians, Dracontius was recalled before he had tried and executed the saints, and a certain Timotheus was appointed in his room. The new governor at once arrested S. Januarius, who was then at Nola.
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Cordubae, in Hispania, sanctae Pomposae, Virginis et Martyris; quae in persecutione Arabica, ob impavidam Christi confessionem decollata gladio, palmam consecuta est.