Marcellus I

Honored
Rank
Status
Saint
Birth
255
Death
309
Honored as

Magisterium
Pontificate
Also known as

Pope Marcellus I · Marcellus · Pope Marcel I · San Marcello I papa · Marcello I · san Marcello · Saint Marcel · Sanctus Marcellus Papa I · Sanctus Marcellus PP. I · san Marcelo I · papa Marcello I · Marcel Ier · Marcelo I · Marcellus I

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Life

Pope Marcellus I (Italian: Marcello I) (6 January 255 – 16 January 309) was the bishop of Rome from May or June 308 to his death on 16 January 309. He succeeded Marcellinus after a considerable interval. Under Maxentius, he was banished from Rome in 309, on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the penances he had imposed on Christians who had lapsed under the recent persecution. He died the same year, being succeeded by Eusebius. His relics are under the altar of San Marcello al Corso in Rome. Since 1969 his feast day, traditionally kept on 16 January by the Catholic Church, is left to local calendars and is no longer inscribed in the General Roman Calendar.

May Marcellus I intercede for us, and may we imitate today the holiness this Life has shown.

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