Saints Marcellinus and Peter
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(EWTN) Both Fr. Marcellinus and Fr. Peter (who performed exorcisms) were of the Clergy of Rome and eminent for their zeal and devotion to Christianity.
During these days of persecution by the Roman Emperor Diocletian, according to Franciscan Media in or about in the year 304 they were condemned to die (beheaded) for their faith.
Pope Damasus said when he was yet a child, he learned of all the particulars of the deaths of Fr. Marcellinus and Fr. Peter first hand from the executioner himself and he subsequently inserted them in an epitaph in Latin placed at their tomb. — Pope Constantine erected a Basilica over their crypt.
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